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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by gpt5 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:52PM (#37732688)
Initial constraints like ICU bed shortages and gear scarcity definitely had a basis. But those measure lasted long after the bottlenecks got resolved and the risk assessment became clearer. For example, public schools stayed remote while virtually every private school switched to in-person (even California's governor opted for private in-person schooling for their kids).

The public's frustration is that these prolonged, seemingly arbitrary measures outlasted their initial justification.

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by slv77 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:19PM (#37732881)
ICU capacity was a bottleneck that never got resolved. In the US there was never a nationwide effort to mobilize ICU resources to target hot spots other than an initial aborted attempt to gather respirators for the surge in NYC and send a military floating hospital.

Regional programs were put into place to shift patients during a local surge and to mobilize hallways and other non-traditional capacity. In California once capacity dropped below 10% health orders went into effect.

At the beginning of 2023 and well after widespread vaccination the California statewide capacity was at 24% availability with 7% of beds being taken by Covid patients.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Reg...

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by n8henrie on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:54PM (#37733081)
I am still struggling to find transfer facilities with available ICU beds.
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by firesteelrain on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:34PM (#37733319)
This has been studied ALOT lately. Here is one such paper

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9383939

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by GenerocUsername on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:44PM (#37733366)
Didn't that huge hospital ship in New York sit unused until it eventually left
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by slv77 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:55PM (#37733432)
The hospital ship was never intended to take covid patients. The idea was the ship would take non-covid cases leaving ICU capacity in hospitals. It turns out that military hospital ships aren’t great for the general population given bulkheads and the general layout of ships.
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by listenallyall on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:19AM (#37736236)
The massive Javits Center was also made available. 2500 beds, only 141 used.

https://gothamist.com/news/fema-begin-strategic-drawdown-lar...

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by Izkata on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:58AM (#37734168)
In Chicago we also spent millions of dollars building extra temporary capacity. It only got something like 38 patients and was quietly dismantled after one month.
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by bryanlarsen on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:13PM (#37732834)
Hospitals were closer to collapse in 2022 than they were in 2020 or 2021 in my experience.
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by seanthemon on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:50AM (#37734117)
Any way to substantiate that claim? I also assume you mean in the US.
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by slv77 on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:11AM (#37734242)
Deaths peaked in 2021 but hospitalizations peaked in 2022. Hospitals were at higher capacity in 2022 but treatment protocols had improved reducing mortality rates. Deaths caught the headlines so people missed the surge.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations

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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by seanthemon on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:39AM (#37736418)
I wonder if suddenly going from masks and sanitizing constantly to immediately stopping (at least in my country) may have contributed to the sudden jump. Also we were encouraged not to visit the hospital unless it was necessary so many opted not to for almost 3 years.
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Re:Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make y... by Kelkolo on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:07AM (#37736156)
The ICU bed issue was very long ongoing issue in Germany too.

And everyone working at those hospitals didn't see any light for month/years

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