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"1,350 versus 1,319" Without knowing anything else, I seriously doubt that is statistically significant. The normal pre-COVID ICU bed occupancy rate was somew
by mcguire 5y ago
"1,350 versus 1,319"
Without knowing anything else, I seriously doubt that is statistically significant.
The normal pre-COVID ICU bed occupancy rate was somewhere near 57-82% (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/). 54% is quite low. I suspect that the bar for getting into an ICU bed has been raised by the number of COVID patients.
BTW, Indiana has ~1,940 ICU beds (https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-releases-specific-icu-bed-ventilator-numbers https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-releases-specific...). In numbers, that means
* ~173 are unoccupied,
* ~718 are occupied by COVID patients, and
* ~1048 are occupied by non-COVID patients.