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Old 11-14-2020, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
Assuming this was directed at my comment....

This is not exactly true. According to the SD DoH, Covid patients are occupying 20% of their staffed hospital beds. According to the same page, 33.1% of their ICU beds are unoccupied.

Regardless of the type of bed, the fact still remains that there are a dozen states closer than Oregon that patients could have been driven to or flown to if necessary. It's possible that Oregon was chosen for some reason but I would expect to be able to find a source for that claim.
I Googled it and could not find that information.
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