GoodLife
06-21-2020, 06:21 PM
Headline from Newsweek
Multiple Florida Hospitals Run Out of ICU Beds as Coronavirus Cases Spike
You have been blocked (https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-florida-hospitals-run-out-icu-beds-coronavirus-cases-spike-1511934) This links to Newsweek article, not sure why it did this.
Excerpt:
Numerous Florida medical facilities reported dwindling ICU bed availability on Thursday, with several reporting no availability at all, according to the latest report published by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Palm Beach County was among those statewide regions where the availability of beds was most scarce. An accompanying report from AHCA shows about 75 percent of available hospital beds statewide are currently occupied.
"several reporting no availability" means actually 2 hospitals out of 17 in Palm Beach County, and they are small ones with 6 and 10 ICU beds
"about 75% occupied" actually means 71% if you use actual math. Normal average ICU occupancy rates in hospitals nationally is 65% to 75% when there's no global pandemic going on. Does Newsweek think they build costly ICU rooms to stay empty?
29% of florida hospital beds are currently open.
it's 71% full, not 75.
palm beach is 31% open.
there is just nothing at all in the real data to support these hysterical claims.
Want to know why our hospitals are not overflowing even though we have record surges in new cases?
The median age of new cases in Florida has dropped from 55 to 35. A recent study in Italy determined that 70% of covid 19 positives under 60 years old are asymptomatic. Numerous other studies in UK etc confirm this. Google it
So this surge is mostly younger people, the ones who feel pretty invulnerable to covid 19 (they are) and they don't like masks, like to go to bars and protests and if they catch coronavirus, most of them don't even have symptoms or need hospitals.
Another reason for this surge may be workplace testing. As we open up more and more businesses have their employees tested, this is not only to protect customers but also themselves, they don't want a mini epidemic and have to close again. Average age of workers in USA is 42.
Multiple Florida Hospitals Run Out of ICU Beds as Coronavirus Cases Spike
You have been blocked (https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-florida-hospitals-run-out-icu-beds-coronavirus-cases-spike-1511934) This links to Newsweek article, not sure why it did this.
Excerpt:
Numerous Florida medical facilities reported dwindling ICU bed availability on Thursday, with several reporting no availability at all, according to the latest report published by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Palm Beach County was among those statewide regions where the availability of beds was most scarce. An accompanying report from AHCA shows about 75 percent of available hospital beds statewide are currently occupied.
"several reporting no availability" means actually 2 hospitals out of 17 in Palm Beach County, and they are small ones with 6 and 10 ICU beds
"about 75% occupied" actually means 71% if you use actual math. Normal average ICU occupancy rates in hospitals nationally is 65% to 75% when there's no global pandemic going on. Does Newsweek think they build costly ICU rooms to stay empty?
29% of florida hospital beds are currently open.
it's 71% full, not 75.
palm beach is 31% open.
there is just nothing at all in the real data to support these hysterical claims.
Want to know why our hospitals are not overflowing even though we have record surges in new cases?
The median age of new cases in Florida has dropped from 55 to 35. A recent study in Italy determined that 70% of covid 19 positives under 60 years old are asymptomatic. Numerous other studies in UK etc confirm this. Google it
So this surge is mostly younger people, the ones who feel pretty invulnerable to covid 19 (they are) and they don't like masks, like to go to bars and protests and if they catch coronavirus, most of them don't even have symptoms or need hospitals.
Another reason for this surge may be workplace testing. As we open up more and more businesses have their employees tested, this is not only to protect customers but also themselves, they don't want a mini epidemic and have to close again. Average age of workers in USA is 42.