Originally Posted by
aviation_enthus
I remember reading back when the cases dropped off that Victoria alone had created (or planned) 4000 new ICU beds to cope with the predicted outbreak. What happened to all those beds?
I read a few days ago Victoria was around 80 or 85% capacity of ICU beds at the time. They also talked of the extra 4,000 ICU beds that can be made available and they had trained some nurses for ICU and they also had extra ventilators available.
The read was the ICU beds were like going from economy to premium economy - far short of business or first classes.
My guess is they will not want to try the reserve ICU beds as they can not afford another enquiry.