On: Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs

[mjevans]

I wonder how many would get vaccinated if hospitals preemptively triaged with bins approximately like this:

30% of capacity - Priority 1: normal emergency use (it's a hospital, this isn't an oxymoron)

20% of normal OR infectious capacity - Priority 2: vaccinated but breakthrough covid.

50% of infectious capacity - Priority 3: anyone else including unvaxed covid patients.

[Jensson → mjevans]

Those bins wouldn't change anything, not a single state has more than 50% of their beds occupied by covid patients.

> https://www.benefitspro.com/2021/08/12/10-states-where-covid...

[robocat → Jensson]

48% Covid ICU beds in Alabama: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514837