All major markets are completely open, the boosters lack the same veracity as initial vaccination and infection. We are going to learn to live with that.
The goal is to keep ICUs available for general emergencies.
Stanford, of course, is just a private institution, but is foreshadowing the predilections of influential policy makers.
>The goal is to keep ICUs available for general emergencies.
Can anybody back this up with actual data? Looking at my own state's dashboard doesn't seem to suggest that there has ever been even a remote risk of ICUs being overwhelmed.
It also doesn't really stand up to basic scrutiny: hospitals were recently firing medical staff who refused vaccines. That doesn't seem like the behavior of a system which is on the brink of being overwhelmed.
I have family members who work in a hospital in the US and they said that their hospital is overwhelmed with asymptomatic individuals saying "I think I might have COVID!" and panicking. The correct response to that is to refer these people to their primary care physician. But yeah ICUs have never been close to being overwhelmed by COVID at this hospital.
Are you looking at the numbers as a whole or county by county? If 800/1000 beds are available in the state and 19/20 in your county that’s a problem. That’s ignoring that few systems are designed to operate at capacity for any extended period of time.
Maybe the analysis should be above the level of basic scrutiny.
