England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary says

Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by htkgigktmrnnr on Sunday September 12, 2021 @12:07PM (#28502353)

> The graph here you are looking for is the one that shows the percentage of staffed beds and icu beds occupied. Notice that it is entirely flat.

So why did hospitals declare that they have no ICU beds available and that they are sending patients out of state?

> At least 53 Texas hospitals have no available ICU capacity, according to numbers reported to the federal government during the week ending Aug. 5. In Austin, five hospitals were at or above 90% of their ICU capacity during the same period, with two reporting no available ICU beds

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/10/coronavirus-texas-ho...

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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by chana_masala on Sunday September 12, 2021 @12:11PM (#28502389)

It could be related to staff shortages. Number of beds is not a literal figure, it also accounts for the number of staff that can treat patients in the bed. If you're short staffed you're short bed'd too

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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by sudosysgen on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:42PM (#28517237)

That still contraticts the sentence he quoted.

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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by thepasswordis on Sunday September 12, 2021 @12:11PM (#28502396)

I don’t know. But what I do know is that data will speak much more clearly than somebody’s news article.

Those hospitals at 90%: what is their base load? The hospitals with no beds: what is their base load?

These things make very profitable news articles, but they don’t do a very good job of informing.

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Re:England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary ... by htkgigktmrnnr on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:23PM (#28503511)

The news article is literally quoting hospitals saying they are out of ICU beds.

But you trust a dashboard more...

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