General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Covid infections are up by 68%, over the past two weeks, in my county [View all]ProfessorGAC
(76,673 posts)...in a county of 700,000 the seven day MA is still only 138. It was 60 on April 1.
That said, ALL BUT TWO hospitals in the entire county are reporting >20% ICU bed availability. Hospitals actually plan to have 1 in 4 ICU beds available all the time in case of emergency. They don't want to be at 95%, but they don't want 50% either. If availability was routinely that high, they'd reduce the number of ICU beds and increase rooms for noncritical patients.
Being consistently over 25% is less than economically ideal.
So, at this point our county is pretty good.
All that said, the fully vaxxed rate here is nearly 75% (whole population basis), with over 60% at least one booster.
That may have a lot to do with the the low burden on the hospitals.