re: Can someone tell me what has changed with covid that is making these power 5 conferences

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As for hospitalizations on the Coast, Bond explained Singing River Health System has 4 in the ICU and 8 in isolation in a med surge unit in Ocean Springs. In Pascagoula, there are 12 in the ICU and 8 in the med surge unit, with a total system wide of 32.

Bond says there’s been a lot of questions about the order of capacity. “Certainly it’s a concern if we continue the trend upward along the Coast. Right now, we are far away from that 10 percent capacity with 53 available rooms, we’ve got about 39 percent capacity. We never get at full capacity in the ICU. No hospital does. There are some places in Jackson, they have one ICU bed available period. It’s a way to put a trip wire in to where they ask hospitals to try to stay at that 10 percent capacity or they’ll have to cancel elective surgeries.”

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This hospital has around 150 available beds and isn't using anywhere near its capacity

Nice try

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Mississippi Gulf coast East Jackson County.

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The articles about the number of ICU beds in your area are fake news. There were articles just like those in Texas and Florida that were debunked....by the doctors and nurses who work in those hospitals. Hospitals DO NOT have a set number of ICU beds. Each hospital "prepares" only the number of ICU beds they think they will need that week/month (because of cost). ICU's (prior to CoVid) routinely run up to their "prepared" capacity all the time. It is normal and has nothing to do with CoVid.

fricking douche.