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by cickpass_broken 1737 days ago
I was able to find ICU capacity and occupations for Alabama[1].

Interesting to note, that last time that COVID patients were occupying the peak 700-800 bed range, was Jan 2021. Only, back then, there was ~150 more total capacity. Why has total capacity dropped since the start of the year?

No doubt, COVID hospitalizations are spiking, but total beds available are dipping at the same time. Not a good recipe!

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend...

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150 ICU patients is a lot. In the whole country here in Finland, there's 22 COVID patients in ICU right now. We have roughly 50% more people than in Alabama.