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If kids "don't even feel this shit if they catch it"

Why have pediatric ICU beds been near or at capacity and care as a whole on the brink of failure from months of completely fucked working conditions for the doctors and nurses?

Along with other kids not dealing with COVID having life saving medical procedures/treatments indefinitely delayed until beds are back down below a certain fill for some amount of time? I've personally had to see effects this in my extended family.

Seriously - what is wrong with you? What makes you have to say things/come to conclusions like this when you're very clearly factually incorrect?

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/pediatric-hospital-b...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/number-of...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210816/u-s-reports-record-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kids-sick-covid-are-fil...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/health/covid-hospitalizations...

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-pediatric-cov...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/02/picu-hosp...




There are 3006 counties in the USA. Given that the pandemic is not trivial, it is possible to find a couple counties with overwhelmed ICU beds on any given day. The catch is that the counties change as the pandemic waves come and go. The media chases around for the counties that get overwhelmed, and ignores the vast majority of counties that are not overwhelmed. That before taking in account that, for economic reasons, ICUs are not build for pandemics, with double digit occupancy rates even outside epidemic waves.

For example, here's actual pedriatic ICU data from Seattle metro area with ~4M people. I bet this never made the news.

MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 55.5%, 6.1 of 11.0 beds used

SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 83.0%, 71.4 of 86.0 beds used

https://datacentral.kitsapsun.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity

Edit: Turns out that the KitsapSun app has county-level data for all of USA. For Tarrant county (your top 2 links), right now the pedriatic ICU data is:

COOK CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER, 82.5%, 34.3 of 41.6 beds used

Not great, but not months-long-near-capacity-brink-of-failure situation either. The adult ICU situation is much worse, hopefully it will retreat in the coming weeks.

https://datacentral.kitsapsun.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity...




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