https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/ The mean capacity doesn't disprove what I said in t

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/ The mean capacity doesn't disprove what I said in the slightest. https://i.imgur.com/s8RRK76.png https://i.imgur.com/s8RRK76.png the dark gray represents ICUs in the studied time window (which wasn't 2013, it was a study done in 2013, the study measured ICUs from 05-07) Here's an interesting fact[1]. 2020 hospital capacity in the US after the start of the pandemic never even got up to the projected capacity as projected using data from 2015-2019. So no, I don't believe these scary-tale anecdotes I've been reading the entire pandemic. They are not backed in data they are backed, at best, in bullet points without context designed to scare the ignorant. [1]https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/trends-in-overall-and-non-covid-19-hospital-admissions/ https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/trends-in-overa... Here's a really good breakdown in canada of capacity with ventilators - you'll note almost every single graph shows higher numbers in 2019 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1479547900598366220.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1479547900598366220.html