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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by raydev on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:46PM (#29900747)
> Shouldn't the total number of beds in use also be skyrocketing along with the Covid number?

Your expectations may be met soon enough. We're 800% higher in admits than we were 3 weeks ago. The total number of beds reducing up to 2 days ago looks more like a fluke than anything, a slight relief before the wave.

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by fleventynine on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:43PM (#29902011)
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/01/11/are-you-for-or-w...

For what it's worth, I've been trying to find evidence of hospitals running out of ICU beds due to Omicron, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in North America, even in places that appear to have peaked. Staffing shortages due to quarantine policy seem to be a much bigger problem.

The vaccines really do seem to be working, and Ontario has a lot of vaccinated high risk folks compared to most US states.

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by fleventynine on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:00AM (#29902528)
More anecdotes that omicron infected patients are not a huge problem in highly vaccinated areas:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/COVID-San-Francisco-s...

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