Irish Units are very busy, with 91% bed occupancy in adult ICUs and 94% bed occupancy in paediatric ICUs in 2017. The recommended occupancy levels are 70-80%.
From what I can recall we normally have around 250+ ICU beds that was pushed up to 400+ for COVID. If there are only 82 COVID cases in ICU how many non COVID are there. Not too many I would guess which is worrying in itself as people are not going to hospital for other ailments. It looks like we are well under normal capacity.
Interesting findings that were again ignored. A positive from this Virus is they may keep the increased capacity. As regards other alignments, my GFs father had to go into a&e in the mercy yesterday. He was in and out on 3 hours including waiting on blood test results. Place was dead bar him and some alco off the street.
Some fellas cant break out of that colonial thinking, they see a piece written by some English boffin and take it all at face value. Its fascinating to watch.
