Germany has been subject to panics about Corona ICU occupancy since the pandemic started. In the last month, it has emerged that many hospitals under-report ICU capacity and /or over-assign ICU patients, because they receive special subsidies if their ICUs are over 75% full.
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This perverse incentive arises from a law that took effect in October 2020. It is why many ICU beds appeared to systematically disappear from the healthcare system last fall, and it i why Germany ...https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus231167815/Intensivstationen-Es-geschehen-seltsame-unverstaendliche-Dinge.html …
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... which has some of highest per capita ICU capacity in world, has been able to panic about heavily stressed ICU units even at comparativelylow incidences of Corona. It is obvious that politicians were aware of this problem and lied the whole time.
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(small correction: the law took effect in November*.)
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