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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's easy to take these out of context.  It is not unusual for hospitals to be on yellow or red alert during flu season.

I don't know where to find statistics on how often this happens, just just look the limited number of captures of the CHATS Region V website taken by the web archive:

Monday, December 19, 2016 10:23:45 PM
https://web.archive.org/web/20161220032423/https://www.miemssalert.com/chats/Default.aspx?hdRegion=5

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:13:59 PM
https://web.archive.org/web/20160324011529/https://www.miemssalert.com/chats/default.aspx?hdregion=5

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 3:18:28 PM
https://web.archive.org/web/20160223201925/https://www.miemssalert.com/chats/Default.aspx?hdRegion=5

I didn't cherry-pick these dates.  These are simply the days the Web Archive had during past flu seasons.  Now, obviously the this year this is happening due to COVID, and not the flu, but the broader point here is that hospitals are accustomed to operating at these levels- they divert patients when they can, and there usually is some wiggle room in accommodating additional patients if absolutely necessary. The question is whether the region's hospitals as a whole are overloaded.  And when you look at Region 5 combined with Region 3 (Baltimore), it's doesn't look great.  [/quote]

Fair enough. None of these times have the county at blue alert though. And Thanks for the top on using the web archive because I would like to dig more into past data on this.

I agree with your overall conclusion, I need to look at the local data more closely too[/quote]

It's even a bit iffy to look just at Montgomery County.  Despite being a big county, there really aren't any major hospitals. There's a couple big hospitals- Holy Cross and Shady Grove- but the only "trauma center" in the county is Suburban, which is actually quite small. Montgomery County has always been reliant on the hospitals in DC and Baltimore, which is why I looked at Region 3.

I was very surprised to see Johns Hopkins Hospital on yellow/red alert.  That's a very large hospital. (Though, I know they have a reputation in the region for not wanting to take transfers, so I wonder how full they really are.)[/quote]

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