Sources:
https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map/ -- This is where I'm getting the current percentages & raw numbers
https://www.indystar.com/story/news...p-fast-track-vaccine-mandate-bill/8925925002/ -- This is where it cited that pre-pandemic number of ICU beds (I'm sorry if it's behind a paywall.
https://www.regenstrief.org/covid-dashboard/ -- State dashboard on hospitalizations. It's interesting because you can play around with date ranges and see how data shifts.
Pre-pandemic number of ICU beds in Indiana = 1,400
Number of ICU beds after pandemic ramp-up = 2,022
Allocation of ICU beds as of today (12/29/21):
Non-COVID: 52.8%, or 1,067.
COVID: 38%, or 768
Open: 9.2%, or 186. ( -- Informative Tweet thread from an IU hospital pulmonologist explaining how that number isn't exactly what it seems, but that's not really my point.)
In the "before times," 1,067 ICU patients for non-COVID reasons (i.e., everything else we get sick from) would account for 76.2% of beds with the remaining 23.8% being open.
We can also see that we've got more COVID patients in the ICU (768) than the number of beds we surged up (622).
If COVID existed in the "before times," 768 patients would account for 54.8% of all the ICU beds available. For one disease. I don't care if we're talking cancer, heart attacks, strokes, or goddam syphilis. That's a way too big chunk of beds being tied up with one thing.
Switching gears to the number of people in the hospital, this is interesting. And to me, numbers in the hospitals are the really important metric because that's really showing the strain on the system. But anyway, I ran two sets of data. 3/1/2020 - 6/1/2021 (to encapsulate the pandemic beginning up to when vaccinations really petered out to the current trickle) and 6/1/2021 - Present (to see the other side of that coin. The results (in % to adjust for the different time period lengths):
March 1, 2020 - June 1, 2021: Percentage hospitalized by age group.
0-4 = 0.52%
5-19 = 1.30%
20-29 = 6.07%
30-39 = 7.58%
40-49 = 9.38%
50-59 = 14.78%
60-69 = 20.36%
70-79 = 21.06%
80+ = 18.94%
June 2021 - Present : Percentage hospitalized by age group.
0-4 = 1.15%
5-19 = 2.05%
20-29 = 6.40%
30-39 = 9.14%
40-49 = 12.30%
50-59 = 17.68%
60-69 = 21.38%
70-79 = 17.18%
80+ = 12.72%
So, you can see that the pandemic has been pretty terrible for old people. Particularly so when you see the high percentage of old folks in the hospital with COVID compared to their relatively small portion of the population. But seniors (70+) have also been our most vaccinated group, and there are as many 40-49 year olds in the hospital the last 6 months as 80+. Pre-vaccine, there were twice as many 80+.
Final interesting piece of data:
From 6/1/21 to present, 8.6% of confirmed COVID + patients have needed hospitalization. 11.5% of those hospitalized have died. That can be compared to numbers of 8.4% & 16.5%, respectively, over the course of this whole thing. So it looks like hospital outcomes have improved. My strong suspicion is that it has to do with the increase of younger folks needing inpatient care vs. seniors.
Do what you will with this fake news.
https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/indiana-covid-19-dashboard-and-map/ -- This is where I'm getting the current percentages & raw numbers
https://www.indystar.com/story/news...p-fast-track-vaccine-mandate-bill/8925925002/ -- This is where it cited that pre-pandemic number of ICU beds (I'm sorry if it's behind a paywall.
https://www.regenstrief.org/covid-dashboard/ -- State dashboard on hospitalizations. It's interesting because you can play around with date ranges and see how data shifts.
Pre-pandemic number of ICU beds in Indiana = 1,400
Number of ICU beds after pandemic ramp-up = 2,022
Allocation of ICU beds as of today (12/29/21):
Non-COVID: 52.8%, or 1,067.
COVID: 38%, or 768
Open: 9.2%, or 186. ( -- Informative Tweet thread from an IU hospital pulmonologist explaining how that number isn't exactly what it seems, but that's not really my point.)
In the "before times," 1,067 ICU patients for non-COVID reasons (i.e., everything else we get sick from) would account for 76.2% of beds with the remaining 23.8% being open.
We can also see that we've got more COVID patients in the ICU (768) than the number of beds we surged up (622).
If COVID existed in the "before times," 768 patients would account for 54.8% of all the ICU beds available. For one disease. I don't care if we're talking cancer, heart attacks, strokes, or goddam syphilis. That's a way too big chunk of beds being tied up with one thing.
Switching gears to the number of people in the hospital, this is interesting. And to me, numbers in the hospitals are the really important metric because that's really showing the strain on the system. But anyway, I ran two sets of data. 3/1/2020 - 6/1/2021 (to encapsulate the pandemic beginning up to when vaccinations really petered out to the current trickle) and 6/1/2021 - Present (to see the other side of that coin. The results (in % to adjust for the different time period lengths):
March 1, 2020 - June 1, 2021: Percentage hospitalized by age group.
0-4 = 0.52%
5-19 = 1.30%
20-29 = 6.07%
30-39 = 7.58%
40-49 = 9.38%
50-59 = 14.78%
60-69 = 20.36%
70-79 = 21.06%
80+ = 18.94%
June 2021 - Present : Percentage hospitalized by age group.
0-4 = 1.15%
5-19 = 2.05%
20-29 = 6.40%
30-39 = 9.14%
40-49 = 12.30%
50-59 = 17.68%
60-69 = 21.38%
70-79 = 17.18%
80+ = 12.72%
So, you can see that the pandemic has been pretty terrible for old people. Particularly so when you see the high percentage of old folks in the hospital with COVID compared to their relatively small portion of the population. But seniors (70+) have also been our most vaccinated group, and there are as many 40-49 year olds in the hospital the last 6 months as 80+. Pre-vaccine, there were twice as many 80+.
Final interesting piece of data:
From 6/1/21 to present, 8.6% of confirmed COVID + patients have needed hospitalization. 11.5% of those hospitalized have died. That can be compared to numbers of 8.4% & 16.5%, respectively, over the course of this whole thing. So it looks like hospital outcomes have improved. My strong suspicion is that it has to do with the increase of younger folks needing inpatient care vs. seniors.
Do what you will with this fake news.