There are 3006 counties in the USA. Given that the pandemic is not trivial, it is possible to find a couple counties with overwhelmed ICU beds on any given day. The catch is that the counties change as the pandemic waves come and go. The media chases around for the counties that get overwhelmed, and ignores the vast majority of counties that are not overwhelmed. That before taking in account that, for economic reasons, ICUs are not build for pandemics, with double digit occupancy rates even outside epidemic waves.
For example, here's actual pedriatic ICU data from Seattle metro area with ~4M people. I bet this never made the news.
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 55.5%, 6.1 of 11.0 beds used
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 83.0%, 71.4 of 86.0 beds used
Edit: Turns out that the KitsapSun app has county-level data for all of USA. For Tarrant county (your top 2 links), right now the pedriatic ICU data is:
COOK CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER, 82.5%, 34.3 of 41.6 beds used
Not great, but not months-long-near-capacity-brink-of-failure situation either. The adult ICU situation is much worse, hopefully it will retreat in the coming weeks.
For example, here's actual pedriatic ICU data from Seattle metro area with ~4M people. I bet this never made the news.
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 55.5%, 6.1 of 11.0 beds used
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 83.0%, 71.4 of 86.0 beds used
https://datacentral.kitsapsun.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity
Edit: Turns out that the KitsapSun app has county-level data for all of USA. For Tarrant county (your top 2 links), right now the pedriatic ICU data is:
COOK CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER, 82.5%, 34.3 of 41.6 beds used
Not great, but not months-long-near-capacity-brink-of-failure situation either. The adult ICU situation is much worse, hopefully it will retreat in the coming weeks.
https://datacentral.kitsapsun.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity...