When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like

It&#x27;s a fair point re: strain on hospitals, but The Atlantic could do without the hysteria and clickbait headlines. They undermine their credibility with nonsense like that.<p>Hospitals are definitely under a lot of stress at the moment, but that&#x27;s hardly the same thing as a health-care system &quot;crumbling&quot;.

I&#x27;ve seen the narrative that hospitals are being overrun many times over the past two years, but it just doesn&#x27;t line up with the ICU and inpatient capacity data from Johns Hopkins. Take a look at their &quot;Weekly Hospitalization Trends&quot; dashboard and see for yourself.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.jhu.edu&#x2F;data&#x2F;hospitalization-7-day-trend&#x2F;montana&#x2F;inpatient-capacity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.jhu.edu&#x2F;data&#x2F;hospitalization-7-day-trend...</a><p>In the US overall, during the entire course of the pandemic, the ICU capacity capacity maxed out at 81% and the inpatient capacity maxed out at 78%. The same is roughly true when you look at the state numbers as well. The only state that I could find that reached 100% ICU capacity was Alabama, and that happened back in August&#x2F;September. Most states have been running at less than 80% ICU and inpatient capacity for the past year and a half.<p>I get that ICU capacity is a local issue and that it&#x27;s possible for individual hospitals to be at max capacity even while the state has excess capacity overall, but to claim that the health-care system as a whole is crumbling just isn&#x27;t supported by evidence.

The worldometers on recent cases is a MASSIVE SPIKE. It could be the prevalence of home testing, or it is just that omicron is that transmissable.<p>(Daily new cases graph is a fair way down):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;us&#x2F;</a><p>that is 300% worse than the worst point of the worst outbreak we had of COVID before.<p>The death rate spike trails the case surges, so that will tell me personally how bad omicron is.<p>I had predicted we reach a million deaths in April or so based on a post-christmas surge matching the previous year&#x27;s surge.<p>This virus is amazing in how well it is adapted to attack American social and political structures. It kills people we don&#x27;t care about (medically vulnerable, elderly, poor) while almost being completely asymptomatic in the young and vibrant (and socially influential, all we care about is pretty young people in the US). So it undermines political support that would stop it.

I&#x27;m seeing a different headline: &quot;Omicron Isn’t Mild for the Health-Care System&quot;

Just need to look at Canada right now...

Biden is such a balerine.<p>Once upon a time he ran his campaign on &quot;I will beat Covid&quot;. [0]<p>Once Omicron appeared, he pivoted - &quot;Opps, we didn&#x27;t expect&quot; that[1]. Cool story bro, it was discovered at the end November.<p>And now he pivoted one more time, shamelessly claiming: &quot;there is no federal solution to COVID&quot;[2]<p>Pivot, Pivot, Pivot, no delivery, crisis after crisis with no solution. Is there one competent person in this administration?<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joebiden.com&#x2F;notes-from-joe-together-we-will-defeat-covid-19&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joebiden.com&#x2F;notes-from-joe-together-we-will-defeat-...</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;homenews&#x2F;administration&#x2F;586401-harris-says-biden-administration-didnt-seen-omicron-coming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thehill.com&#x2F;homenews&#x2F;administration&#x2F;586401-harris-sa...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;covid-biden-no-federal-solution-states-control-pandemic&#x2F;9034179002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eu.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;covid-biden...</a>