I work in 3 hospitals and they're all basically full. Sending patients home or to other hospitals if beds can be found.
8-10% of people with COVID will need to be hospitalized. With hospital treatment, very few of them die. If hospitals get full around the country, more will die (maybe 3-5% of cases) because of lack of access to a hospital.
The big thing people don't realize is how little unused capacity the country has in hospitals. COVID isn't Ebola, but our hospital system only has the capacity for a fraction of a percent of the population to be receiving treatment at the same time.
They were saying this was going to happen back in April. That was what the "two weeks to flatten the curve" was all about, to remove strain from hospitals. They have since had what, 9 months to prepare, why haven't they?
The curve did flatten back in April but with winter and people getting tired of restrictions the cases have spiked again and are around twice the previous high point.
Hospitals have prepared as much as they can, but those preparations couldn't include increasing size. A hospital with 200 beds can still only treat 200 patients plus wherever they have space for a few more.
I work in 3 hospitals and they're all basically full. Sending patients home or to other hospitals if beds can be found.
8-10% of people with COVID will need to be hospitalized. With hospital treatment, very few of them die. If hospitals get full around the country, more will die (maybe 3-5% of cases) because of lack of access to a hospital.
The big thing people don't realize is how little unused capacity the country has in hospitals. COVID isn't Ebola, but our hospital system only has the capacity for a fraction of a percent of the population to be receiving treatment at the same time.
They were saying this was going to happen back in April. That was what the "two weeks to flatten the curve" was all about, to remove strain from hospitals. They have since had what, 9 months to prepare, why haven't they?
The curve did flatten back in April but with winter and people getting tired of restrictions the cases have spiked again and are around twice the previous high point.
Hospitals have prepared as much as they can, but those preparations couldn't include increasing size. A hospital with 200 beds can still only treat 200 patients plus wherever they have space for a few more.