Pre COVID, hospital ICUs were always full. They admit post operative cases like heart/lung surgery, cancer surgeries requiring intense care which bring big $$ for hospital. During Covid, they halted these cases to open ICus for COVID. Now Texas is open for these cases because the patients can only wait for 3-4 months. Currently non-Covid ICU beds account for 70%(today’s data from Texas medical Center) . ICU beds can be opened up more if necessary especially if people stop shooting other people during riots. No need for panic.
Pre COVID, hospital ICUs were always full. They admit post operative cases like heart/lung surgery, cancer surgeries requiring intense care which bring big $$ for hospital. During Covid, they halted these cases to open ICus for COVID. Now Texas is open for these cases because the patients can only wait for 3-4 months. Currently non-Covid ICU beds account for 70%(today’s data from Texas medical Center) . ICU beds can be opened up more if necessary especially if people stop shooting other people during riots. No need for panic.
Do you have a link?
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-icu-bed-capacity-modeling/
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/total-icu-bed-occupancy/
There are bunch of charts, go down to
TMC ICU Bed Capacity and Plans
Which is exactly what the hospitals told everybody today.