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ICU capacity was a bottleneck that never got resolved. In the US there was never a nationwide effort to mobilize ICU resources to target hot spots other than an
by slv77 3y ago
ICU capacity was a bottleneck that never got resolved. In the US there was never a nationwide effort to mobilize ICU resources to target hot spots other than an initial aborted attempt to gather respirators for the surge in NYC and send a military floating hospital.
Regional programs were put into place to shift patients during a local surge and to mobilize hallways and other non-traditional capacity. In California once capacity dropped below 10% health orders went into effect.
At the beginning of 2023 and well after widespread vaccination the California statewide capacity was at 24% availability with 7% of beds being taken by Covid patients.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Regional-ICU-Capacity.aspx https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Reg...
- n8henrie 3y agoI am still struggling to find transfer facilities with available ICU beds.
- firesteelrain 3y agoThis has been studied ALOT lately. Here is one such paper https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9383939 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9383939
- GenerocUsername 3y agoDidn't that huge hospital ship in New York sit unused until it eventually left
- slv77 3y agoThe hospital ship was never intended to take covid patients. The idea was the ship would take non-covid cases leaving ICU capacity in hospitals. It turns out that military hospital ships aren’t great for the general population given bulkheads and the general layout of ships.
- listenallyall 3y agoThe massive Javits Center was also made available. 2500 beds, only 141 used. https://gothamist.com/news/fema-begin-strategic-drawdown-largely-empty-javits-center-and-usns-comfort https://gothamist.com/news/fema-begin-strategic-drawdown-lar...
- Izkata 3y agoIn Chicago we also spent millions of dollars building extra temporary capacity. It only got something like 38 patients and was quietly dismantled after one month.