[MintsJohn]

One part strikes me as odd, as it come across as a new problem, while for me it seems the core problem since the epidemic started: “Hospitals have already been transferring patients to different hospitals, diverting new patients, and sending patients out of state to Georgia. And many hospitals are delaying surgeries, like knee and hip replacements and even cancer-related surgeries.“

In my country (the Netherlands) that unfortunately has been the norm since covid struck. The backlog in surgeries (all said the be of the non urgent category, meanwhile there are less cancer diagnosis than ever before...) is enormous by now, estimates are it'll take till the end of 2022 catch up, of course, that's assuming the backlog won't increase while medical personnel gets exhausted and new covid patients need ICU care as well. Since covid started it feels this effect has been underestimated by the public and is too uncomfortable for the government to discus too much