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BeadyEyedThieves t1_it77xoi wrote

RSV, and the weekly admission across 3 hospitals went from 54 to slightly over 100, when the 3 children's hospitals have 84 beds between them. So, that's definitely a CRISIS ERMAGERDDDD.

I guess people don't realize that hospitals are financially incentivized to run as close to capacity as possible. So it's pretty inevitable that a positive influx in any type of disease is going to result in being "over capacity". Also people have a much higher propensity to bring their child to the hospital when they're sick with something because it's scary and it's their child. Better to be told to go home than to need to be at the hospital when you're up against the clock.

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