The number of intensive care beds available in New York City pre-pandemic was about 1,600 - total.[1]
The population of NYC as of 2019 is 8.419 million. 8,419,000.[2]
NYC couldn't have more then 0.02% of its population in hospital at any given time. And that number is not available capacity - that's total. Generally at any given time 50 - 80% of those beds are in use for other patients since you don't build ICU capacity just to have it (remembering that ICU capacity is beds + equipment + supplies + staff).
Those are all true and useful facts. And things sucked in NYC for a while.
Now that we have vaccines and people with natural immunity, I imagine the percentage of the population contracting covid and getting sufficiently sick is (should be?) going down. Hopefully that plus better therapeutics should keep things from sucking as bad again.
Of course, with large numbers of nurses quiting over vaccine mandates, the capacity is going down and things might suck again.
The population of NYC as of 2019 is 8.419 million. 8,419,000.[2]
NYC couldn't have more then 0.02% of its population in hospital at any given time. And that number is not available capacity - that's total. Generally at any given time 50 - 80% of those beds are in use for other patients since you don't build ICU capacity just to have it (remembering that ICU capacity is beds + equipment + supplies + staff).
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-nyc-more-than...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=new%20york%20city%20populati...