One thing I don't think people really understand about #COVID19 and hospitals is that the health system ROUTINELY operates at 85%+ capacity
There really isn't much wiggle room around
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Here's an example As per the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, there were 20,257,957 patient bed-days used in 2018 in Australia In the same year, there were 22,511,375 AVAILABLE bed-days That's 89.99% capacitypic.twitter.com/LePJMIRcfe
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Source for that info is here:https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/hospital-resources-2017-18-ahs/contents/hospitals-and-average-available-beds …
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(A bed-day is basically 24 hours of a person being in a hospital bed)
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Aren’t most places discontinuing elective surgeries. What percentage would that be?
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Yes, and varies wildly. Some places do a lot, but some hospitals barely do any
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It’s the same in Canada -they try for 100% in ICU. And many elective surgeries are already done as day surgeries or in separate clinics. There’s not much room for an influx of people requiring high tech intervention.
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