Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:42PM (#28534164)

ICU capacity is generally bottlenecked by staffing and not by beds within suitable facilities. Basically there are required minimum ratios both legally and from a "we have to follow our on policy lest we create slam dunk lawsuits" point of view.

ICU staffing is less elastic than it's ever been because hospitals have cut staffing in response to people postponing elective care (where all the $$ is).

So ICU capacity as a percentage of full is as much a reflection of hospitals being tightwads as it is about Covid.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by Izkata on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:45PM (#28534615)

> have cut staffing in response to people postponing elective care

Also more recently from firing nurses who don't want to get vaccinated, who had worked for all of last year without a vaccine.

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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US? by refulgentis on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:58PM (#28545511)

So the hospitals _are_ full but they're actually not full, their capacity is lower than last year?

Do you have any sources that can back that claim? It seems like a first order, simple, cause and effect thought, but it's unclear if this is anecdotal or there was a mass firing of nurses that's got under the radar. Let's signal boost it, if so.

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