So we are just better up here. OK.Your infection & hospitalization rates are low right now. In the Deep South and Intermountain West where vax percentages are low and mitigation standards are non existent, it’s an entirely different story. And not just rural hospitals.
I have a Boise friend who got real sick about three weeks and had to be coptered to a hospital in eastern Oregon. The hospitals in metro area (St Al’s & St Luke’s) are huge and they serve a total population of around 750,000.
Thankfully he was was able to get the antibody cocktail, recovered fairly quickly and was released last week. Nope, this not media frenzy or a myth.
Many Hospitals With No Beds Left Are Forced To Send COVID Patients To Cities Far Away
Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them hundreds of miles away for treatment.www.npr.org