That's a pretty scary article, but doesn't seem to entirely square with the actual admissions data [1]. The largest hospital in the area, Barnes Jewish Hospita

That's a pretty scary article, but doesn't seem to entirely square with the actual admissions data [1]. The largest hospital in the area, Barnes Jewish Hospital with over 1,100 beds had only roughly 10% of them filled with covid patients as of the last week in December. Most of the hospitals were no where close to capacity. Mercy hospital, the second largest after Barnes had an average of 102 of 959 beds filled with Covid patients, again somewhere around 10%. Also, these are patients with Covid, not necessarily patients admitted because of covid. If we take the article's statistic of 2/3 of the admissions being unvaccinated, then for Mercy, for example, 67 of their patients are unvaccinated Covid patients, possibly incidental to their admission reason. We're seeing 50-70% of "Covid admissions" in some places are actually "incidental", they were admitted for other reasons [2]. So the real number of unvaccinated sick covid patients at Mercy is probably somewhere between 30-50. St Louis has a population of almost 310,000. Doesn't really seem worth breaking out the pitchforks over, does it? [1]https://data.thespectrum.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity/missouri/29/st-louis-city/29510/ https://data.thespectrum.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity/miss... [2]https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/hospitals-see-more-patients-with-covid-19-vs-for-covid-19.html https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcome...