Since the lockdown began there have been many videos of citizens and journalists who have gone around hospitals with cameras and shown that they are not overwhelmed. This included a hospital in Queens, New York. In the early days of hard lockdowns in April, 2020, days after news broadcasts showed queues around the block to get into the hospital, a US citizen went to visit and found the queues had mysteriously vanished.

German journalist Billy Six also made recordings of very quiet hospitals (and has some interesting discussions with German doctors) during the first lockdown, as compiled in this video.

Here is video made in the US in January 2021, and in this video, several hospitals visited in the UK in the same month seem pretty deserted, and here is another quiet UK hospital.

The United Health Professional quote doctors also commenting that hospitals have not been overflowing, and in cases where they have had more patients than beds, this overflow was shifted to other hospitals, but that this is often the case in the flu season. Professor Bruno Mégarbane, anaesthesiologist and intensive care physician, comments that every winter in Paris, for example, intensive care unit (ICU) beds are completely filled, requiring the transfer of some patients.

The UK Column point out issues with understaffing and underfunding in the UK National Health Service, and how warnings about bed shortages have been going on for years.

Thus the panic-inducing reports in the media regarding overwhelmed health facilities has not always been borne out by the reality.