PaulG wrote:
For someone who is so obsessed with positive cases and death counts, I don’t understand why you don’t care about current hospitalization numbers. Here are the numbers from today and from April 24th when restrictions were eased and elective surgeries were allowed again. A month into eased restrictions and these numbers simply don’t line up with the gloom and doom scenario you seem to be hoping for.
Georgia hospitals as of today:
ER Beds in Use: 1,159
ER Bed Availability: 2,189
Critical Care Beds in Use: 2,032
Critical Care Bed Availability: 879
Inpatient Beds in Use: 9,956
Inpatient Bed Availability: 5,214
Georgia hospitals as of 4/24:
ER Beds in Use: 843
ER Bed Availability: 2,587
Critical Care Beds in Use: 2,329
Critical Care Bed Availability: 917
Inpatient Beds in Use: 9,169
Inpatient Bed Availability: 5,558
https://www.gha.org/News/Novel-Coronavirus/GHA-Daily-COVID-19-Update
I'm trying to do a dispassionate analysis of the data. I live in Georgia and a lot is at stake for me and my family.
I don't think we are in any near-term danger of running out of hospital resources in Georgia. So that part is not very interesting to me right now.
Georgia does not report the number of COVID patients in hostpitals, so that's not really an indicator of anything. In Georgia, you are not counted as a COVID hospital patient unless you first tested positive after you entered the hospital. If you tested positive before that then somehow you don't count.
What is interesting is the case data. It looks like we are seeing a second wave in Georgia and that has huge implications.