re: Here we go : OLOL pauses scheduling of new non-urgent, inpatient procedures

Hospitals today are not designed to run with 100 vacant beds. Its not financially feasible. At a normal time most facilities run at around 95% capacity. When there are 80 Covid patients as inpatients, the hospital is over capacity and out of beds. This does not mean the hospital is overwhelmed with Covid patients. It means when you add those 80 patients there is nowhere left to put them. The only option left is to figure out how to open beds up so patients that need immediate treatment(covid or other diagnosis) have somewhere to land. Elective procedures is your only option. You would be pissed if your family member was truly sick and there wasn't a room to put them in.