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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A ray of hope for the US, our high number of critical care beds.

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Lol, I wish.

That’s not even close to remotely accurate.

See: https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/hospital-beds.htm
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That’s a different metric. Your numbers show hospital beds per thousand.  The chart shows critical care beds (which is what matters most now) per 100,000.  I’ve seen the same numbers cited by multiple sources. [/quote]

There are a total of 46,500 ICU beds in this country. Total, not currently empty. If 30% of americans get the virus then by current estimates that means 5 million will need intensive care. [/quote]

Also to put all of these numbers in context. In 2017 there were a total of 139 million trips to the ER. 14.5 million of those resulted in a hospital admission (if 15% of covid patients need admission under the above conservative estimate then 15,000,000 patients would require hospitalization, DOUBLING 2017's year long numbers).

The number of those visits that required admission to a critical care unit was 2 million. So covid has the potential to add more than twice the number of critical care cases to the country than we saw in the entirely of 2017.

Math like this is hard to wrap your head around, but we are not prepared for a surge in illnesses, people will die.

We currently have about ~170,000 respirators in this country (once again, total, not available). This will become a very very grave situation if we cannot flatten the curve.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/emergency-department.htm[/quote]

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