I just left Porter Adventist - one of the more well-known hospitals in central Denver - for a pre-surgery visit for my knee. Surprisingly the place was a ghost town. Seemed almost empty. Doctor parking lot was ~90% full, but patient parking garage was so empty I parked on the ground floor for a 1:30pm appointment. My sixth sports-related orthopedic surgery at that facility and I've never parked on the ground floor before. Nurse who did my blood work said it had been really slow all summer - 20-40% occupancy rate. Told her I saw online where 69% of the ICU beds were being used there and she asked me where I got that info because she said they hadn't been even close to 50% ICU occupancy all summer.

Not sure where all the Covid people filling up ICU's are, but they sure weren't there. They even gave me the option of moving my 9/30 surgery up to any earlier day in that week, which had never happened to me before.

Not saying it's not a problem in other places, but it sure wasn't a problem there. Made me very skeptical about some of the info being put out by the media, to say the least. CBS morning news in Denver leads every broadcast with how terrible things are and how local hospitals are near max capacity.