NYC's Hospital System Never Reached Full Capacity in Spring 2020

Plus other observations about citywide hospital data.

We know New York City hospitals experienced a dramatic drop in visits to emergency departments in spring 2020. What about inpatient census? Was the system ever out of beds or bursting at the seams?¹ How many patients were placed on ventilators? Did most have covid?

In this post, I’ll speak to these and other questions using data from the New York Departme…