Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?

Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by hcurtiss on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:48PM (#25394450)

But that's because the pandemic actually emptied out most hospitals. ICUs are not built for Easter Sunday. Here's an article with pre-pandemic numbers: "Although average ICU occupancy was only 68% in 2005, some hospitals, especially academic medical centers, regularly face occupancy levels exceeding 90% (Wunsch et al. 2013), often requiring the rationing of scarce critical care beds."

http://www.elisalong.com/uploads/1/0/9/7/109701801/long_math...

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by rsfern on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:38PM (#25394848)

Sounds like ICU capacity is roughly appropriate for normal-times peak demand to me.

The average occupancy you quote is consistent with the “2 months ago” capacity quoted by GP.

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by jariel on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:38AM (#25397648)

The pandemic emptied hospitals and put many other kinds of therapies, surgeries etc. on delay, because it's dangerous. Hence the need to get vaccinated so we can resume.

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