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See my Dec. 4 post in this thread wondering about that discrepancy.

The low numbers that San Mateo posts at its site seems too low to me, but why would they claim to have so few ICU beds?

I presume that when SCC corrected to show only staffed beds on its site, that it was the state who had been specifying staffed beds but some hospitals had been reporting surge beds.

I guess it could be that San Mateo County is reporting beds that are actually staffed on it's website, but there is another category, beds that exist and could be staffed but are not because we don't need them, and that is the number reported to the State. In any case, this discrepancy makes one wonder if anybody in the State is paying attention. If I were them, I wouldn't allow this inconsistent data reporting. Public confidence requires these numbers to match, more or less.

Since nobody answered your post, I can only assume that nobody here knows. I am going to ask SMC Health.

I got an answer quite quickly.

We continue to direct all members of the public to the State website, which is based on daily polling of hospitals that the State is relying on to inform the statewide picture including implementing the Regional Stay at Home order if a Region hits the 15% threshold.  San Mateo County’s county-specific availability, as you know, is rolled into the Bay Area region’s number so looking at our County alone is a partial picture but can be done on the State website.
 
The information we display on our County dashboard is based on an additional poll that we use for on-the-ground planning for each day, within County movement if necessary, etc.  We are in very close contact with our hospital partners to keep these data up-to-date and operationalizable in a very short time frame. 
 
As we all plan for and respond to what the case and hospitalization surge means for actions we need to take, and hospitals implement their surge plans, we expect the data differences to narrow.

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See my Dec. 4 post in this thread wondering about that discrepancy.

The low numbers that San Mateo posts at its site seems too low to me, but why would they claim to have so few ICU beds?

I presume that when SCC corrected to show only staffed beds on its site, that it was the state who had been specifying staffed beds but some hospitals had been reporting surge beds.

I guess it could be that San Mateo County is reporting beds that are actually staffed on it's website, but there is another category, beds that exist and could be staffed but are not because we don't need them, and that is the number reported to the State. In any case, this discrepancy makes one wonder if anybody in the State is paying attention. If I were them, I wouldn't allow this inconsistent data reporting. Public confidence requires these numbers to match, more or less.

Since nobody answered your post, I can only assume that nobody here knows. I am going to ask SMC Health.

I got an answer quite quickly.

We continue to direct all members of the public to the State website, which is based on daily polling of hospitals that the State is relying on to inform the statewide picture including implementing the Regional Stay at Home order if a Region hits the 15% threshold.  San Mateo County’s county-specific availability, as you know, is rolled into the Bay Area region’s number so looking at our County alone is a partial picture but can be done on the State website.
 
The information we display on our County dashboard is based on an additional poll that we use for on-the-ground planning for each day, within County movement if necessary, etc.  We are in very close contact with our hospital partners to keep these data up-to-date and operationalizable in a very short time frame. 
 
As we all plan for and respond to what the case and hospitalization surge means for actions we need to take, and hospitals implement their surge plans, we expect the data differences to narrow.