Our Rulers Never Tire of “Tweaking”
December 21, 2020
Intensive care bed availability in Southern California has been reported at 0% capacity by state and county health officials. But that alarming figure carries a big asterisk: it doesn’t mean there are no open ICU beds that day.
For example, 9.2% of Orange County’s staffed adult ICU beds were available by Friday, Dec. 18, according to the OC Health Care Agency. But because 57% of the county’s 628 active ICU beds were taken by coronavirus patients – well above the state’s 30% limit – Orange County’s capacity was downgraded to 0%.
Herman Mayfarth not only forwarded this “big asterisk” but also analyzes it via a sentence from one of the article’s later paragraphs:
“…takes the actual percentage of remaining adult ICU beds each day and tweaks it…”
Translation: “tweaks” = lies about
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