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Old Dec 16, 2020, 6:28 pm
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azepine00
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My understanding is that "available beds" calculation is based not on actual beds but rather staffed beds. Staff is fungible and can be assigned elsewhere during low demand - hospitals are not gonna keep personel where its not needed.
Basically low capacity is definitely very alarming but numbers are likely somewhat stretchable as staff gets reassigned.
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