Seoul Reportedly Running Short of ICU Beds for Critically Ill Coronavirus Patients
In the entire greater Seoul area there is 319 ICU beds for patients with severe COVID and now 300 are filled up:
Health authorities Wednesday vowed to find more hospital beds for seriously ill coronavirus patients as more of Korea’s older population contract the disease, saying there were only 19 such beds left in the greater Seoul area by Tuesday evening.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The promise came as the nation counted 320 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, according to data released Wednesday morning by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). Monday’s toll was 280 cases.
More than two-thirds of Tuesday’s case load came from the Seoul metropolitan area encompassing Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi, as a cluster from the Sarang Jeil Church in Seongbuk District, central Seoul — a controversial Presbyterian church mostly attended by older conservatives — continues to swell.
Yoon Tae-ho, an official on the Korean central government’s Covid-19 command center, said during a Wednesday press briefing that more people in their 60s or above were contracting the virus lately, which was leading to an uptick of seriously ill patients. The older demographic is generally considered to be at higher risk for getting really sick from the coronavirus.
You can read more at the link, but the claim of running out of beds is slightly misleading. This is because more beds can be allocated, but it will take away from the hospital’s ability to handle other patients for elective procedures. This is an issue that hospitals in the U.S. have had to deal with which can be financially troublesome because elective procedures generally make more money for the hospital compared to COVID patients.
So rhey say, prove it.
Fear pr0n. The Moon-ites are getting more and more strident in their agitprop against South Koreans…
Commie Moon should be going and buying more beds for every hospital. We need to see his phone and visitor records.
Or he should get all those beds in the boondocks moved to where most of the doctors–and and most of the people–are located.