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The numbers are also slightly irrelevant for the average citizen too. Other than for a short period of time a couple of weeks ago, in very specific areas, there has not been a shortage of ventilators/ICU beds in Italy. The government has managed to keep ahead of the tide by the skin of it's teeth.Acute care bed is not the same as a critical care bed. Hence the discrepancy. Acute care just means a bed available for an emergency admission. Critical care bed is one in which someone can be ventilated. Both types of beds are needed.
It doesn't matter if you have 30 or 300 ICU beds per 100k if you only need 25. As long as everybody who needs one gets one it is not a factor in the death rates. I'm not aware of any country truly running out so far.