There are 1,903 ICU beds in the state of Alabama, FAR more than we have ever needed for COVID. Why the heck do Montgomery hospitals have a shortage? Did people in MGM just not require critical care prior to the virus?

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Posted by pvilleguru

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Posted on 5/20/20 at 2:27 pm to Evolved Simian

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There are 1,903 ICU beds in the state of Alabama, FAR more than we have ever needed for COVID.

How many of those are in Birmingham?

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Why the heck do Montgomery hospitals have a shortage?

Montgomery County alone has had over 100 more new cases in the last 2 weeks than Jefferson County.

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Did people in MGM just not require critical care prior to the virus?

Probably not this level. I don't know how the rest of the state is doing, but it looks like a lot of the counties around Montgomery have seen almost half of their total cases have come in the last 14 days.

This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 2:36 pm

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Posted by wm72

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Posted on 5/20/20 at 3:54 pm to Evolved Simian

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There are 1,903 ICU beds in the state of Alabama, FAR more than we have ever needed for COVID. Why the heck do Montgomery hospitals have a shortage? Did people in MGM just not require critical care prior to the virus?

I believe that a lot of the recent Alabama cases are in rural counties near Montgomery (Butler Co etc) and all of the critical hospitalizations from that region go to Montgomery.

The larger factory struggling to stay open due to continued cases that I mentioned in an earlier post has a few patients in Montgomery hospitals even though it's an hour from Montgomery.

This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 4:18 pm

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