Looking at the entire country at once is silly in many ways. This thing is very local. In Eastern King County Washington we were the first to have cases noticed in this country. We have half a million Chinese immigrants living here and many of them go back to China frequently. Deaths in this part of the county appear to have peaked even while the rest of the state is having more. Our Hospital Intensive Care Units are back to normal. So even a look at the entire state gives a false impression about what we are experiencing in Eastern King County.
at my hospital we do have some ICU beds available...my whole floor has been dedicated to accepting positive covid or presumptive, meaning we have many many beds available....we have several cases of a different virus...human pneumovirus...which can be deadly as well....I saw this today...if a patient with symptoms comes in, and they do a quick flu swab and if its negative, they automatically say its covid.......no kidding...they did this with Swine flu too....