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Originally Posted by S=kBlogW
Current covid % of ICU beds available = 47%
The graph only goes back to week ending Aug 2, 2020, when covid % of ICU beds = 40%
Last summer the date of peak cases was mid July 12, that wave hit Florida earlier than this one, so if the graph went back a few more weeks the % of covid ICU beds would be a few points higher, so not that big of a difference from now.
If you look at the graph for all of USA, the peak covid % of ICU beds was larger in January 2021 than it is now.
There is no doubt that the Delta variant is infecting large number of people. The good news is that the Infection Fatality Rate is much lower than in previous waves. The average age of current covid cases is lower, (most older americans are vaccinated and covid kills much less in younger age groups) and we also have better treatments in the hospitals.
Some scientists I read think we are close to peak cases in Florida, deaths will go up at bit more (but never reach previous peaks) and then start to fall
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My college girlfriend’s son is about 40, a vet who served three tours in Afghanistan. He didn’t think he needed to get vaccinated. Now he is in the hospital with severe Covid-caused pneumonia. He thinks he’ll be home in a few days. I hope so. His chest x-Ray looks pretty bad. A friend of mine who had Covid in January but wasn’t admitted to a hospital died last month after a double valve replacement because his lungs were “like concrete” from Covid damage and couldn’t transfer enough oxygen for him to survive, even after 10 days on ECMO to give his heart a chance to heal.