TheDefiantOne
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In the recent news in the never ending saga of "Get that jab" by the MSM and various health organizations and medical professionals, it seems that much attention is being paid to how hospitals in various parts of the USA are being "overwhelmed" or "filled to capacity" by the number of "unvaccinated" patients now testing positive for the Covid variant. Mandatory vaccinations are being pushed the various states and by the federal gov't for it's employees....either get the jab or hit the road.
Well, let's just look at this one example; in New York state you have 277 hospitals at last count....157 of those have ICU beds. The governor recently stated that comes out to about 5,000 hospital beds and 3,000 ICU beds. On average, a hospital here can have anywhere from 18 to 62 ICU beds each depending on it's size.
Now when you have a population of 8,804,190, with a senior population of 3.2 million, then it stands to reason that everything wasn't all hunky dory before Covid hit (anyone in the area with elderly parents that have medical conditions in the Long Island, NYC area knows what I'm talking about).
This is why I take in all these Covid overload numbers with a grain of salt (at best).
Well, let's just look at this one example; in New York state you have 277 hospitals at last count....157 of those have ICU beds. The governor recently stated that comes out to about 5,000 hospital beds and 3,000 ICU beds. On average, a hospital here can have anywhere from 18 to 62 ICU beds each depending on it's size.
Now when you have a population of 8,804,190, with a senior population of 3.2 million, then it stands to reason that everything wasn't all hunky dory before Covid hit (anyone in the area with elderly parents that have medical conditions in the Long Island, NYC area knows what I'm talking about).
This is why I take in all these Covid overload numbers with a grain of salt (at best).
