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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by bildung on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:01AM (#22627548)
As user lima-lima pointed out above, this most probably is an artifact resulting from different definitions of what constitutes an ICU bed - for example pediatric and neoanatal beds are included for the US, but excluded in the European numbers.

It also fails the sniff test: The US has less total hospital beds than almost every other industrial nation, but at the same time the most ICU beds?

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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by malandrew on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:35AM (#22627842)
It only has less total beds if you exclude outpatient facility beds.
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by bildung on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:38AM (#22627871)
Are these included in the count of the other countries? This is exactly what I mean: Without the same definitions for all countries, the numbers per se are not really comparable.
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