It looks like they have 1045 ICU beds in the 9 county metro area.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/27/us-coronavirus-outbreak-georgia-hospitals-atlanta.
I think Grady hospital has 100 ICU beds, they are setting up mobile units outside of the hospital to treat others that aren't infected, but they are almost at full capacity right now. The problem is the hospitals in Atlanta are usually full just from normal stuff like car accidents, heart attacks and other illness. Most of the surrounding rural areas don't have any hospitals at all, so if you need something done they send you to Atlanta, Athens, or Augusta
Ok, that's kind of what I figured. That's usually the case with most metro areas I think, I know the ones here usually ship critical cases off to the capitol city unless they're closer to another metro area.
I can also tell you from personal experience that our system is really dysfunctional. My local VA is ten times better than most of the private systems around here.
That's strange hearing the VA is better than private systems, usually it seems like you hear the other way round.
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