1/ Let’s talk about California for a sec. Looks like three factors are in play. First, it’s playing catch up right now (virus gonna virus, hard lockdowns only delay the inevitable, etc). Second, California is short on hospitals - with 40+ million people, it has ~80,000 beds...

2/ Florida, with 22 million, has more than 55,000. Normally this doesn’t matter, the hospitals can manage, but at times of surge it can.

Third, the media and government hysteria statewide is off the charts. We’re getting all the usual nonsense...

3/ Frenzied talk of rationing (with the admission laye that the rationing is only a potential plan). Projections for admission totals that do nothing but extrapolate current trends - with no recognition that we have a year of data showing the top ALWAYS comes after 6-8 weeks...

4/ Insistence that THE ICUs ARE FULL, when the state’s own reports show they aren’t.

Here’s all you need to know. New York City has 8.5 million people. In April hospitalizations peaked at 12,000. Even then the system didn’t collapse and the field hospitals were mostly empty...

5/ Yes, the system was badly strained, but it didn’t collapse. California has 40 million people. Right now about 16,000 are hospitalized from/with #Covid. (And because we’re testing so widely, many of those are WITH, not from.) Don’t let them panic you.