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Originally Posted by ctmurray
ICU beds need to be available for all the people who have other events such as heart attacks and accidents. The FL plot clearly shows how the Covid surge is pushing out other users. FL is blessed with lots of ICU beds due to having lots of old people and many hospitals. But the graph clearly shows that this surge is bigger than those in the past. AND, I have read that Covid ICU patients require more staff. So besides the actual bed and equipment you have to have staff. I think doctors consider running at 91% of total capacity and nearly 50% are Covid a dire situation.
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IF the OPs numbers are correct, then ICU bed occupancy at 91% vs, 85% norm is no big deal. In NY, we were generally at 110-120% ICU occupancy from 1980-2015 (the excess patients had to be held in the ER or the recovery rooms).
And I see no reason why "COVID patients" would require more staff than the usual disasters in the ICU. So this doctor does not consider it a "dire situation", perhaps someone can name a few that do?