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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if there isn't a problem, you don't need them (the politicians and bureaucrats and "experts") so they are going to create the problem
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a prior law, issued at start of 1st wave 2020, paid hospitals 50k Euro for every newly instituted ICU bed. this is why Germany was reporting enough ICU capacity through August 2020 to treat a good part of the world's seriously ill Corona cases.
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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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