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According to Statistics Canada, about 300,000 to 375,000 Canadians winter in the southern climates, with the majority in the USA. According to Florida Visits, Canadian tourists peaked at 4.1 million visitors, but that includes short term visits and kids going to Disney, etc, and spent $6.5 billion US Dollars, I haven't tried to look at other popular snowbird states.
So, getting back to the OP's question, if Canadians can't or won't head south, there should be lots of campsites available. However, I would expect that a lot of the normal services and restaurants will not be open due to a lack of customers.
FWIW Boat, our daughter, who is in the field, says the best measure of how to gauge the severity of the virus is to follow the number of hospitalizations, particularly those in the ICUs and many states are near or at their limit of ICU beds.
Ed
Well my experience is in both the current healthcare situation and the 39 years of being married to a critical care provider. The numbers or the lack of of ICU beds in a measured way varies across the country. Not all communities have the same population that requires as many ICU beds in all hospitals. Hospitals are built on a need basis and highly regulated. Sadly we had staff being laid off during the most critical and initial time when attempting to get a handle of things pertaining to the virus.
The lack of transparency by the original source of the virus made things worse for the world. Of course what the experts thought about the pattern in which the virus would take did not come to fruition. Remember when the WHO told us no big deal? Remember when the pres. was condemned and called classless names when he shut the borders down from seriously affected countries? Remember when we heard that when it got warm things was going to be different. Yes the experts told us that. And remember we did not need to wear masks if you were not carrying the virus. I quote "save the masks for the professional providers"
To date this is the reports of the deaths in just New York alone, with some content actually addressing the virus early on in the U.S..
CNN)A new study finds that deaths in New York City in the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic were comparable to deaths in the city at the peak of what's considered the deadliest pandemic to date -- the flu pandemic of 1918.
Fed study: 1918 flu deaths linked to relative strength of Nazism
Fed study: 1918 flu deaths linked to relative strength of Nazism
The relative increase in deaths during the early period of the Covid-19 pandemic was actually substantially greater than during the peak of the 1918 pandemic, according to the study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open
Faust said by comparing the first two months of the pandemic in New York to the worst two months of the pandemic in New York 100 years ago, the Covid-19 period had over 70% as many deaths per capita.
"Who knows what would be the case if we didn't have modern ICUs and we couldn't treat secondary infections with antibiotics or put people on ventilators or had oxygen," Faust said. "If you compare these viruses side by side, without all the medical bells and whistles we have today, I'd say Covid-19 is worse."
Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics
New York cases
Updated Aug 24 at 9:07 PM local
Confirmed
430,145
+408
Deaths
32,864
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Of course you are probably aware that since some elective procedures were put on hold, this also backed up the procedures that's being done now and long over due, requiring some of those ICU beds. Locally they are not all filled with Covid cases.
And for an example biopsies are part of the elective procedures, but potential life threatening depending on the stage of the cancers. Some of the rural hospitals only have four to five beds. So it doesn't take much to fill them up for whatever reason
I just looked at the up to date numbers from the New York Times. So while the numbers vary a bit, you can look at the disproportionate rates targeted the big cities to the total numbers in the states. The actual case numbers are on the decline by 6 percent from two weeks ago, if you read their own admission.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-york-coronavirus-cases.html