Yeah I didn't realize how unprepared we were locally because we have 3 major hospitals, one is supposed to be "1st class" on everything and several smaller ones around. I was holding my breath back when ebola happened and felt like we were underprepared as a country back then.
Anyways. The reason the number 13 was shocking is because we had 150 beds supposedly labelled as "surge capacity" and were assumed to be for ICU but are not. I don't understand all the details behind it but 13 seems awfully low for the number of active cases not just in this area but surrounding counties too and we already have 17 covids in ICU. They originally had an empty warehouse picked for treating non-emergency patients but those plans are also sitting in the dust on someone's desk. I wish they'd start putting some of those plans together... but nope lets keep pretending it's all good. I hope I'm wrong but I'd rather to be overprepared than under.
