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Originally Posted by Tiny
The CEO of the local hospital system where I live has a press conference about once a week, and I watch the videos from time to time. Where I live we were overloaded, as recently as a week ago, when over 40% of the patients in the hospitals had COVID and we were close to record highs of total patients. This was a repeat of what happened during past waves. A nearby city had to get a mobile morgue on wheels last year because the funeral homes and city morgue couldn't accommodate the bodies. And the hospitals here were spending a lot of money on traveling health professionals because we didn't have enough locally.
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A "record high" means more than normal to the point that they have not had that many before. It does not necessarily mean bursting at the seams, overloaded, at capacity, etc. It just means that they have staffing issues.