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> The entire two years of this I've been waiting for a single instance of an overflowing hospital with stretchers of people out the door... never seen one yet.

I mean, I don't know about you but I certainly do not consider this normal: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/01/13/er_slammed-getty...

Image caption is: "A nurse walks inside a temporary emergency room, built into a parking garage at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Calif., on Jan. 3, 2021. Since Thanksgiving, cases have risen to the point where 80% of the hospital is filled with patients with COVID-19 and 90% of the ICU is filled with COVID-19."

Taken from: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/13/1072902...

Were those people in there with Covid or from Covid? Cause nobody ever seems to capture that important fact.

You seem to imply that it is a normal occurrence that hospitals have to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures?

Happens all the time in flu season:

https://amp.providencejournal.com/amp/16579156007

https://www.wpri.com/news/er-diversions-skyrocket-in-ri-foll...

Your links mention nothing about patients receiving their care in temporary emergency rooms within the parking structure of the respective hospital, though?

Covid was the cause of the largest mass casualty death event in US history.

It's embarrassing people keep pretending like every doctor in nurse in the USA who has said their hospitals have been overrun with death for over a year now and is the worst they ever have seen are just lying.

I'm guessing this is just some kind of coping mechanism because it's too terrible to comprehend and don't want it to be true, but it is fact.

> Since Thanksgiving, cases have risen to the point where 80% of the hospital is filled with patients with COVID-19 and 90% of the ICU is filled with COVID-19."

The confounding factor here is that this includes patients hospitalized for reasons other than COVID. A patient that had a positive test might not be in the hospital because of COVID, but good luck to anyone trying to tease out that data.

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