This sounds like #FakeNews
no hospital in the country is near capacity
Making it worse so biden can save us
"At capacity" and "near capacity" are subjective. It's not just the number of beds, but also how well staffed they are, or are chosen to be.
To be fair, hospitals want to be as close to full capacity as they can but still have room to accept new patients at any given time.
That only makes sense. If you have beds, nurses, doctors, and equipment set up and staffed to handle those beds, you don’t want half of them sitting empty.
But you don’t want 100% capacity either if it can be avoided. Patient care can suffer there.
But when I see this “filled to capacity” BS, it reeks of a political agenda.
Wisconsin looks good. Milwaukee county still has roughly half of hospital beds open. Only 391 covid hospitalizations in that county, which is over twice as many as the 2nd highest county total. False alarm, ignore him.
https://www.definitivehc.com/resources/covid-19-capacity-predictor
It’s the staffing....its not the beds.
My wife's hospital, one of the main one's in Boise is near capacity. They are also suffering from a staffing shortage due to staff being ill. The other main hospital is in the same situation.
That being said, being at capacity is actually a goal. It's how they make money.
It's not a question of the hospital being 'near capacity' ... hospitals have a set number of beds available for China Virus patients. When those beds are full, the hospital cannot simply make more beds available.
China Virus patients have specific beds in a part of the hospital that are dedicated to it. Specific doctors, nurses, etc.. are also assigned. As it's been explained to me by a nurse and hospital administrator who are both working on this issue, it's not as simple as "beds." It takes time to shift doctors, nurses, etc.. over to China Virus care, and then before they are allowed to go back to their "regular duties" they have to quarantine for two weeks first.
So again, it's not that hospitals are at capacity, it's that the beds they've allocated for China Virus patients are "full."
As for me, I sure as heck have a new appreciation for all the doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers, hospital administrators, etc.. that are all working on this. It damn' sure didn't sound easy to me when it was being explained to me.