AZ has some reasonably accessible data: <https://azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage https://azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage

AZ has some reasonably accessible data: <https://azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage https://azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage> It looks like ~40% of all ICU beds taken by COVID patients recently. Doesn't break down by age, so doesn't inform this question completely, but it can speak against the 75% number quoted elsewhere in this conversation (and my anecdotal experience as well). In AZ at least, certainly 75% of all ICU beds can't be taken by young unvaccinated COVID patients if only 40% of ICU beds were taken by COVID patients. EDIT: UT also around ~40% <https://coronavirus-dashboard.utah.gov/hosp.html https://coronavirus-dashboard.utah.gov/hosp.html> Duration of admission is something to consider as well though. Nobody likes to let young people die, and the odds of keeping someone with a very grim prognosis on the vent for weeks or months is higher if they are young and otherwise healthy as opposed to old or unhealthy; one young ventilated COVID patient could occupy an ICU bed for quite some time while the neighboring bed is turned over dozens of times and while dozens of other patients may expire or be flown hundreds of miles away (to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars for the flight alone) for lack of an ICU bed. Difficult to answer (for me at least) ethical considerations on all sides.