Palm Beach County's Lack of Intensive Care Unit and Isolation Rooms

Of all the things I heard yesterday, one of the more revealing turned out to be the briefing given by the Palm Beach Town Manager. It aired at 3 p.m. Carried on the Town's website, these are supposed to occur daily at the same time. Yesterday's lasted 38 mins. You can hear the whole thing on the Town's part of the website that has a list of past meetings.

They solicited comments via email and combined 65 responses/questions into 12 different categories related to Town operations.

This is the headline: Palm Beach County has a population of 1.4 million people. The entire county only has a total of 112 ICU beds. and just 63 isolation rooms. This number adds up all the facilities in all hospitals in Palm Beach County. 

If this doesn't underline the importance of hand washing, social distancing and isolation, nothing will.