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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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