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Old 12-16-2021, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Yucatan2 View Post
Replying to Bonnevie: This is a very interesting link I had not seen before, thank you for posting it. You can drill down to the stats on each county, as well as each hospital. It appears The Villages hospital almost always has high occupancy in ICU, whether there are a lot of Covid admissions or not.
That is because ICU beds expand and contract, according to need.

No sense staffing 50 ICU beds when only 20 are needed.

Hospitals typically shoot for 80% of capacity...
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