News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off. Parent comment

Re:CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off by omarchowdhury on Sunday March 15, 2020 @09:06PM (#22588571)
The issue is that infections are not going to be evenly distributed inline with ICU beds. For example, NYC has 3,000 ICU beds, of which 80% are already occupied (65 by coronavirus patients based on the latest numbers). Meaning there are 600 ICU beds open right now. With a 10% ICU rate, that's only 6,000 confirmed infections in a city of 8.6M for the hospitals to be overwhelmed.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CDC says U.S. gatherings of over 50 people should be put off by senordevnyc on Sunday March 15, 2020 @09:21PM (#22588675)
Sadly, all of New York has 3000 ICU beds. New York City probably only has about half of those.
[ Parent | on HN ]