2 COVID Vaccines Approved, End to Pandemic in Sight??

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I wonder what this even means though.  In my former home in San Diego county, our local hospital laid off a ton of people earlier this year due to not having ANY patients (Covid or otherwise).  So is it that hospitals are "overwhelmed" because they let a bunch of people go, and now need to get back up to speed and re-open more space?  That's certainly a possibility.

I also remember hospitals being "overwhelmed" to the point that they had medical ships in CA and NY, and mobile hospitals all over the place, and then didn't actually need ANY of them...

I am highly suspicious of this whole "overwhelmed" thing at this point, I doubt almost anything I hear these days.  I think the government is inept, and the media likes to hype things that aren't even true.

From what I can tell (not anywhere California), the hospitals that load off thousands of workers here have not recalled many workers still. Some hospitals permanently closed down departments. Our county public health department keeps harping on the hospitals being overwhelmed, but there are 8 COVID patients in the county hospitals. There's 3 hospitals and combined they have way over 8 ICU beds. They also don't say that the COVID patients are in the ICU. Every day or so one is released and another goes in. 

Hardly any of tent hospitals or ship hospital in NYC were used. The ship never had COVID patients on it. Most of those tent hospitals never had a single person in them!