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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obviously somebody realised they needed a different subsidy system or lockdowns would never be justified, so they started paying hospitals to run at-capacity ICUs instead. the politicians haven't taken this seriously since last summer.
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