Are Florida's hospitals overrun with Covid patients?
 

You see many media reports that Florida's hospitals are being overrun with a surge of new covid 19 cases.

The problem with those stories is that actual data shows it's not true. As of yesterday July 13 here are the numbers.

Today's occupancy:
All Beds: 77.1%
ICU Beds: 79.5%

One week ago (July 6th):
All Beds: 75.8%
ICU Beds: 77.8%

75% to 85% occupancy is considered to be normal and the "sweet spot" for hospitals, they are built to make a profit but they like to have a little excess capacity.

Covid 19 patients occupy 13.4% of those beds, the rest are occupied by normal elective surgeries, heart attacks etc.

You can find accurate data at this site, which is updated daily. You can check for regular and ICU beds by county and hospital every day. This site is the Agency for Health Care Administration, a State agency.

Workbook':' Public

At the top of the page you can click on the stats you want to see, beds by county, ICU beds by county, ICU beds by hospital etc Currently there are 19% of all Florida ICU beds available.

What about the hotspots? Are they being "overrun"

Broward: 12% available ICU beds

Miami Dade: 15% available ICU beds

Orange: 27% available ICU beds

Palm Beach: 26% available ICU beds

What about Sumter? 22% available ICU beds

There are currently two Florida counties with zero available ICU beds, Nassau and Okeechobee, these counties only have a total of 8 ICU beds each.

You can bookmark the link above and check for yourself anytime you want.

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Thank you for the reality check :)

But the media wants us to think the world is coming to an end how can you add facts to the narrative?

so for all of Sumter county there are 9 ICU beds available.....our population is about 130,000....

apparently it''s of concern enough to have Villages Health put out the advisory

And of course that site is the absolute authority on everything COVID in Florida. Believe what statistics you wish, but people are being hospitalized and are dying. With hospital administrators speaking out on their resources and the reduction I (and I may be wrong) don't believe we are getting better, that the rates have stabilized or that the danger is decreasing and will disappear in a few months......but that's just me.

I take no comfort in that. Cases have exploded in the last two weeks and the disease that afflicts many of those folks hasn't progressed to the point they need an ICU bed. 132 deaths were reported today. That is a lagging number in that many of those people were ill for weeks before they passed and their deaths may not have been reported until even later. In a month or so, we'll know how many of the 10K to 15K a day being infected now actually die or suffer debilitating effects .

The President said this was the equivalent of war and covid is the enemy. Our goal as a nation should be to defeat the enemy, not to downplay it.

The advisory did not state that the hospitals are overrun with covid patients. Mostly it was an advisory to stay safe during this new surge.

If it wasn't based on some facts they wouldn't have put it out. Advent Health has made similar statements, a little stronger in their case, but seems the Hospitals are laying the ground work for a less than optimistic forecast.

It's a State agency. I trust them much more than reporters with an agenda.

It is the president doing the down playing it and people are scrambling looking for reasons to agree with him. It is real and if everyone took it seriously we could win the war.

Please don’t let these number confuse you. Hospitals have multiple ICU’s Neo Natal, pediatric, Cardiology, Neurology, obstetrics. These are isolated in different areas of hospital.
Covid Patients are isolated mostly in negative pressure rooms with teams of nurses, respiratory techs and Drs providing for their care in GENERAL ICU. The bed count is not what you may think.

Hope the Mayor of Hialeah sees this and takes comfort being that he stated the ICU situation at hospitals in his city is critical and nearing capacity.

It's the Developer's fault.


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Did you miss this part? 13.4% of rooms occupied by covid 19 patients, the rest are normal surgeries. Any ICU room can be converted to negative pressure if needed.

COVID-19 Forced Hospitals to Build Negative Pressure Rooms Fast | Infection Control Today