And if you lived in a state that published open data you could see this happen — hospitalization rate goes up and bed count goes down, and we’d go to tighter restrictions until the trend reversed and the bed count went back up. A lot of the public health response wasn’t about stopping COVID transmission, it was about limiting the effect on a hospital’s ability to provide care for things like life-threatening injuries.
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And if you lived in a state that published open data you could see this happen — hospitalization rate goes up and bed count goes down, and we’d go to tighter restrictions until the trend reversed and the bed count went back up. A lot of the public health response wasn’t about stopping COVID transmission, it was about limiting the effect on a hospital’s ability to provide care for things like life-threatening injuries.