Are they really overwhelming hospitals?
This keeps being repeated but most hospitals operate at about 80% capacity as-is. Places in Tennessee and Florida are currently, with COVID-19, operating at about 80%. [0]
If we look at Israel, which has a very high vaccination rate, we see that they're supposedly running out of hospital space. [1] But the article linked doesn't say _anything about their actual numbers atm_ and points to a fiscal problem rather than a manpower problem.
There was a recent Science Magazine article that states that 13% of the hospitalized-and-vaccinated group are under 60. That amounts to 39 people in a country of 9 million. [2]
I've asked this before both here and elsewhere: If these vaccines aren't "good enough," what is? At what point does this become "zero COVID" in that "nobody can ever die from this disease again?"
[0]: this may have changed -- things are changing quickly -- so I'd be curious if you have any recent (<1 week old) information on this.
[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-public-hospital...
[2]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-... -- and I took this from Louis Rossmann's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYtfT7HsJq0
This keeps being repeated but most hospitals operate at about 80% capacity as-is. Places in Tennessee and Florida are currently, with COVID-19, operating at about 80%. [0]
If we look at Israel, which has a very high vaccination rate, we see that they're supposedly running out of hospital space. [1] But the article linked doesn't say _anything about their actual numbers atm_ and points to a fiscal problem rather than a manpower problem.
There was a recent Science Magazine article that states that 13% of the hospitalized-and-vaccinated group are under 60. That amounts to 39 people in a country of 9 million. [2]
I've asked this before both here and elsewhere: If these vaccines aren't "good enough," what is? At what point does this become "zero COVID" in that "nobody can ever die from this disease again?"
[0]: this may have changed -- things are changing quickly -- so I'd be curious if you have any recent (<1 week old) information on this.
[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-public-hospital...
[2]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-... -- and I took this from Louis Rossmann's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYtfT7HsJq0