[tptacek]

The counterclaim is that Japan has an unusually high per capita number of ICU beds.

[MikeAmelung]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co...

So is this nonsense?

[SideburnsOfDoom]

This appears to be true, it is #1 in hospital beds (not the same as ICU beds, but should be correlated)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...

[nicoburns]

Note: that article also lists number of ICU beds per 100000 population, and it seems that it's not that highly correlated. Turkey has the most ICU beds.

[chmod775]

> but should be correlated

It's not, as shown by the very link you posted. ICU beds are a separate column in that table. Japan only has ~7.3/100k.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

That seems to be correct. Oh well, I hope that the link helped.