Got to do a lot of digging to find out the real issue. It's not the "beds"--it's a labor shortage, same as everywhere.
"Honestly, the real challenge is NOT the physical beds – hospital beds or ICU beds. The challenge is our hospitals may not have an adequate number of health care professionals (docs, nurses, respiratory therapists, etc.) to staff those beds," Reeves wrote on Facebook.
“Unfortunately, I’ve been advised hospitals throughout Mississippi have lost nearly 2,000 nurses over the last year,” he added. “There is a labor shortage in most industries throughout America today and health care is no different.”
“The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues,” University of Mississippi School of Medicine Dean LouAnn Woodward said.
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And here, you can see that over a THREE WEEK PERIOD, the entire state had 388 patients in ICU. Is that ideal? Not even close. But remember, this is over a three week period. Hardly what they're making it.
Now, if you dare, ask why the media is hyping this to the extreme.