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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
California has had other priorities on spending for decades than to have adequate facilities for the giant population.
Clinics, emergency rooms, and morgues have plenty of room here in Idaho. In fact, they are empty even with the highest covid numbers yet.
Funny.
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Which part of California are you referring to? According to the following article, Idaho has 1.9 staffed hospital beds per 1000 and California has 1.8 beds, so how is Idaho's facilities so much more adequate?
https://www.beckershospitalreview.co...opulation.html
South Dakota has 4.8 beds per 1000, and they have been utterly destroyed by the pandemic, and they don't have the population mass or density that California or areas like LA have, so we should expect LA to be much, much worse.
Northern California hospitals are not as overwhelmed as LA. We are full like we are most times of the year, and we have a lot of COVID patients, but we aren't overwhelmed. If total volume was higher, and if we had to deal with the flu like normal then it would be bad, but we are handling things now. People are avoiding the ER if they can. As you can see by the next link, Northern California has 27% ICU capacity. We just don't have the population density of the other areas. Our cases in Sonoma County continue to be high, even compared to San Francisco at times, mainly because we have a large hispanic community here that has been hit hard, but again, we lack the population density to spread the virus as fast.
https://www.kcra.com/article/heres-a...id-19/34875735
A deeper dive into the numbers show that the numbers are skewed to LA. California had 47,398 cases today and 460 deaths, but a third of the cases and half the deaths occurred in LA, with 16,766 cases and 221 deaths, yet LA county has only a quarter of California's population. If LA county had California's population then it would have had 65k+ cases and 875+ deaths. If Idaho had LA's population then Idaho would have had 5,470 cases to LA's 16,766, so 30% of LA's cases, and they would have had 28 deaths to LA's 221, so 13% of LA's deaths, which is why Idaho's hospital, morgues and mortuaries aren't as strained. It isn't because Idaho has more facilities. Like the rural parts of California, Idaho isn't spreading the virus as much.
The other factor is that Idaho hit more of a peak back in late November like South Dakota did in early November during the midwest surge, which caused them to prepare sooner and to get through the bulk of their cases before the winter surge that happens every year (so it is false that Idaho is seeing the highest COVID cases yet).This wasn't strategic. It was tragic, but the unintended consequence is staggering the events versus stacking the events like LA is seeing now.