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frazzled

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3. You have to be careful with that number

Reply to live love laugh (Original post)

Tue Aug 24, 2021, 07:30 PM

Aug 2021

I just checked the COVID dashboard for the City of Chicago. Yes, there are just under 20% of ICU beds available at the moment.

Of the total 1,102 ICU beds in the city’s hospitals, 94 are being occupied by COVID patients. 800 are being occupied by non-COVID patients—you know, people there for entirely different reasons, like heart attacks and recovering from bypass surgery, organ transplants, gunshot wounds, car accidents, etc.

Life goes on outside Covid.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/hospital-capacity-dashboard.html

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20% ICU bed availability in IL per NBC just now [View all] live love laugh Aug 2021 OP

Our vax rate is no better than Florida's. I have thought for a while it's just mucifer Aug 2021 #1

The issue is the Children of the Corn The Polack MSgt Aug 2021 #2

Yep. I saw somewhere yesterday bamagal62 Aug 2021 #5

Wow live love laugh Aug 2021 #7

Got that right.. raising2moredems Aug 2021 #6

You have to be careful with that number frazzled Aug 2021 #3

Thanks for that info! Fingers crossed our vax numbers go up. Only 54% of Chicagoans are fully vaxed mucifer Aug 2021 #4

I think NBC may need to be careful. nt live love laugh Aug 2021 #8