To the claims in post 963.
I have no link to show thqt you know anything about the afterlife. You also omitted that from
your post.
Here is a link regarding the Number of ICU beds per person in various countries.
Whether it's a Saudi Prince or a European Monarch, when they want the best care for a tricky ailment, they come to the US to get it.
Interest in international comparisons of critical illness is growing, but the utility of these studies is questionable. This review examines the challenges of international comparisons and highlights areas where international data provide information ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Further data from the UK, with very few ICU beds, suggested that their provision of intensive care was too low [
30]. This possibility was supported by a number of studies which showed many patients denied intensive care due to a lack of beds [
31], many patients discharged from the ICU prematurely [
32], and a reduction in mortality (with steady severity of illness) when more ICU beds were built throughout the country [
30].
Table 1
Selected ICU Bed Availability by country with per capita healthcare spending and life expectancy at birth [
3,
6,
22–
27]*
Country | ICU beds per 100,000 people | Per Capita Healthcare Cost** | Life Expectancy at Birth |
|---|
United States | 20.0–31.7 | $7,164 | 79 |
Canada | 13.5 | $3,867 | 81 |
Denmark | 6.7–8.9 | $3,814 | 79 |
Australia | 8.0–8.9 | $3,365 | 82 |
South Africa | 8.9 | $843 | 54 |
Sweden | 5.8–8.7 | $3,622 | 81 |
Spain | 8.2–9.7 | $2,941 | 82 |
Japan | 7.9 | $2,817 | 83 |
UK | 3.5–7.4 | $3,222 | 80 |
New Zealand | 4.8–5.5 | $2,655 | 81 |
China | 2.8–4.6 | $265 | 74 |
Trinidad & Tobago | 2.1 | $1,237 | 70 |
Sri Lanka | 1.6 | $187 | 71 |
Zambia | -- | $80 | 48 |
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*Estimates are pooled from multiple sources and involve different definitions of ICU beds, and different years of data
**includes all public and private expenditures, not limited to critical care
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As with almost anything you may care to Google, you can also find that the US has almost no ICU beds available by using a different source.
This question rose for me at the early part of the Covid Pandemic when doctors in Italy and the UK were rigging systems to use pon ventilator to serve several patients.
There were also reports of various places in Europe with patients in hallways and garages obviously without ventilators, but also without beds or even rooms.
Here in the US various ventilator ideas were floated, but the chosen solution was a Federal Clearing House to manage distribution of existing ventilators as a "Step 1".
Step 2 was to create the systems needed to manufacture the needed units with capacity exceeding dometic demand by Summer 2020.
Trump and his team did both to great effect and positive impact.
