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Translation of the German captions:

The number of hospitals that report that their ICU capacities as:

Blue: Has Free Capacities (639 currently)

Yellow: Some Contention (326 currently)

Red: Fully Utilized (41 currently)

Covid 19 patients in ICUs: 2453 (76% of which are on ventilators)

ICU beds reported by hospitals: 19,663 (58% in use currently)

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Just a note: This includes hospitals that do not have intensive care units or that does not take Covid patients at all.

For example, I found a "clinic" for neurodiagnostic that has zero patients and is "fully utilized".

Thank you.

The translation I saw described yellow as something like "emerging bottlenecks." There seem to be a lot of them in Bavaria, where I have relatives.

My Bavarian hospital is on there as yellow. I'm currently sitting in the empty urgent care clinic and just had a chat with the nurse from the almost empty emergency room about the fact that both the COVID-19 ward and the ICU are far from capacity. Not really sure why we're yellow, to be honest.

Whatever is reported to government agencies ends up in these graphs (Gesundheitsbehörde).

Same here. Yesterday I just had a chat with my brother-in-law who runs the emergency room in a large hospital in Lower Saxony which is depicted yellow. From what he told me yesterday they are far from exceeding their capacity even giving me some numbers.

There are certain hospitals that are marked red with one patient or so on ICU where I know for a fact that they have more than 1 ICU...

red/yellow doesn't mean covid-19 full. clinic close to my birthplace always have had full low care beds and they build and build new stuff every ~5 years to keep up with demand.

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