No

And makeshift hospitals that cost millions of dollars to construct , equip and staff were shut down after not a single patient was admitted

But for some unknown reason things still limited capacity and cancellations are occurring

Yes and it is happening now.

From http://www.newschannel10.com/2020/05/28/oklahoma-officials-sending-strike-team-guymon-help-fight-covid-pandemic/:

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As the number of cases have spiked, a need for hospitalization has also increased.

However, the hospital in Guymon has a limited to no capabilities to admit the patients, according to the news release.

Because of this, the Guymon Fire Department EMS Division is transporting patients to other hospitals that are hours away.

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Individual hospital, yes? Hospital system? Not sure if NYC went over capacity. Other than that, no.

Guymon, is a town of 11,000 people.
That has more to do with their probably one tiny hospital not being equipped to handle rather than able to handle.

Stop acting like a big hospital in a heavy populated metro area is overrun and turning people away at the door.

Aggie said:

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Guymon, is a town of 11,000 people.
That has more to do with their probably one tiny hospital not being equipped to handle rather than able to handle.

Stop acting like a big hospital in a heavy populated metro area is overrun and turning people away at the door.

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I never claimed that Guymon is a big hospital. The question was "any hospital" and was not limited to big hospitals.

That doesn't sound like they are being overrun so much as don't have the capabilities of dealing with COVID.

All they are doing is diverting COVID traffic to areas that can better support them to keep their hospitalizations at a normal level.

Seventeen temporary hospitals were built by Corps of Engineers, nine never saw a single patient.

Medical ships with 1000 bed capacity were sent to each coast, neither broke 200 total patients.

Cuomo said he was gonna need 140,000 beds, he needed 19,000 in the worst hit state by far.

Scott & White Hospital System laying off 1200 employees.


No, apparently our medical system was not overwhelmed.

There is a great pandemic documentary on Netflix. In that documentary they highlight a hospital in rural Oklahoma that gets overrun every year with seasonal flu. That hospital has exactly one doctor who slept at the hospital during flu season.

I'm starting to have people I know personally in small Texas towns end up hospitalized. Obviously anecdotal, and I'm sure there is something to the increased testing, but I find it hard to believe we're not also seeing a genuine uptick in hospitalization rates with how lax a lot of people in Texas are starting to be with the reopen. It's just simply going to happen.

NYC did in some places for a very short time.

My neighbor from Ft. Hood commands a MASH unit and was deployed to NYC. For about three weeks they were going into waiting rooms picking people out and taking them. 20 or 30 at a time, many of whom had been in the waiting rooms for days. Many of them died on him. It wasnt pretty and it bothers him quite a bit.

So yes, it did happen for a short time in NYC. But it did not last for more than a few weeks.