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You seem to be making a rash judgment here.

Posted on: June 23, 2020 at 22:05:52 CT
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1. His question asked IF it wasn't overwhelming the medical system what is wrong with letting the numbers rise some.

When you have a surge of cases from a virus it makes it difficult to serve the needs of the community for all the various issues they may have.

2. According to the article you linked to the surge of cases was in Brazos County, the home of Texas A&M. Supposedly the bars had gotten a little overcrowded leading to a spike in new cases, BUT it did NOT max out the system. There were still empty beds and they had some more reserve after that.

Then too, there is a lot of excess capacity in the surrounding counties.

Scroll down to the hospital resource use in Texas on this page: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texas

It looks to me like they're using some 5% or so of the available hospital beds and perhaps 10% of the available ICU beds statewide... and as previously noted, the numbers had previously been so low that the surge still left excess capacity even in Brazos County.

The increase is unpleasant now, but it means that a lot of people are developing immunity now and that could be very valuable when the peak winter respiratory disease season hits this fall and winter.

Edited by JeffB at 22:07:11 on 06/23/20
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          From the article - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 6/23 21:23:44
               Isn't that the whole point - KC rules MU - 6/23 21:26:06
                    You seem to be making a rash judgment here. - JeffB MU - 6/23 22:05:52
                         RE: You seem to be making a rash judgment here. - KC rules MU - 6/23 22:14:21
                              it won't (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 6/23 22:27:30
                    it's really hard to serve the community when hospitals - 90Tiger STL - 6/23 22:01:20
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                    The whole point is to freak out over a small % - Sal MU - 6/23 21:27:36
                         When you are adding 5000 cases per day - KC rules MU - 6/23 21:28:31
                              they are, but the media wants you to believe they aren't(nm) - tigerinhogtown STL - 6/23 21:35:20
                              If hospitals weren't planning ahead - Sal MU - 6/23 21:29:28
               Nice find(nm) - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 6/23 21:25:45
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          Bullshyte - show me the phuckin' bodies.(nm) - RayKinsella1922 SEC - 6/23 21:19:04
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