The Driver
I drive.
When 5,000 people need an ICU bed by September 20 in Alabama all this won't matter to those Covid patients suffocating to death.The second half of your sentence is what many are finding out is the issue. Staffing.
Largest hospital here has 16 beds empty. (only about 50 beds total) they’ll continue to be empty because they don’t have the people to staff them. They underpay and treat their employees like garbage. They’re now mandating the vaccine for employees. By some estimates this means they could have up to 30% of their workforce walk if pushed to do so.
No one is disputing this is real and at this point a shortage is a shortage but many hospitals have create an environment that this was ripe to happen in. They understaff and underpay to maximize profits.