Originally Posted by samc

I heard in the news yesterday that some hospitals are back to 85%+ ICU capacity due to COVID AND normal ICU admissions. Resurgence was always likely when R was barely below 1 and in some cases, still above 1 when things started reopening.

As for the people saying 110,000 dead Americans is nothing because X number die of other causes are missing the point. It’s only 110,000 because we got R down by shutting down. Also, thanks for pointing out total excess deaths as yet another measure of why we are undercounting COVID deaths.

Maybe we can learn new tailored shutdown techniques, a more nuanced approach, but I doubt we’ll see any leadership from the top on that. Luckily some states have solid leadership.