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We've literally never run out of hospital space before, including the 2020 winter surge of COVID19/Alpha (which hit us harder than Delta did). This Omicron is
by dragontamer 5y ago
We've literally never run out of hospital space before, including the 2020 winter surge of COVID19/Alpha (which hit us harder than Delta did).
This Omicron is worse than anything we've seen before locally. Crisis levels / Emergency levels of hospitalization have been reached.
Yeah, we've had a nursing crisis and our health care system is shoddier than many people realize. But Omicron is clearly different.
- nickff 5y agoI agree with everything you say here, but most other systems (outside of healthcare and hospitals in particular) run with greater than 20% spare capacity. For example, your local pizza restaurant can probably produce 20% above their expected volume tonight if needed.
- dragontamer 5y agoI mean, some hospitals in my area are reportedly at 140% stated capacity or something. We're well above "20%". This is crisis / emergency time. The emergency declaration will reduce surgeries by 20% (going from 140% capacity to 112% capacity). Like, its obviously not enough, but... its something.