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Jan 5, 2021

COVID-19 Update

World
  • New Cases:   543,364 (⬆︎ .65%)
  • New Deaths:      9,480 (⬆︎ .52%)
USA
  • New Cases:   190,165 (⬆︎ .94%)
  • New Deaths       1,987 (⬆︎ .57%)



They've been trying to get us to understand that the number of cases becomes kinda secondary to the resources we have available to treat those cases.

This is something I haven't been quick to emphasize, and have addressed only once or twice.

My basic problem is that it's hard to find a definitive answer to the question: How many ICU beds are there in USAmerica Inc? 
(approximately 71,000 total, including Specialty Critical Care - NICU, CCU, PICU)

IHME has good graphs and info, but when I'm looking at Total ICU Beds Needed (eg), the graph doesn't indicate how many beds are available.


You have to go to individual states to get that number, and here's the illustration of how bad it is in California, and by simple extension, how bad it's likely to get:

So, uhmm - yeah ... uh-oh.


L.A. County first responders told not to bring patients to hospital if survival chances are low

First responders in Los Angeles County have been told not to bring patients to hospitals if their survival chances are low, as health-care workers try to dig out from a deluge of covid-19 patients.

More than 128,000 people across the United States were hospitalized with covid-19 on Monday, according to data tracked by The Washington Post. That number is a record and represents an increase of 2,800 patients in a single day.
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