Where did the money go??-----Feds Blew $100 Billion on Extra Hospital Beds, Got FEWER Hospital Beds

Feds Blew $100 Billion on Extra Hospital Beds, Got FEWER Hospital Beds

'“Fifteen days to flatten curve” was all about making sure we didn’t run out of hospital beds for sick people, whether they had COVID or something else.
...Among the law’s many, many very, very expensive provisions was $100,000,000,000 (that’s one million dollars, one hundred thousand times) “designed to provide an influx of money to hospitals and other health care entities responding to the coronavirus pandemic.”
...Guess what we got for our money?
Would you believe… fewer hospital beds? 

Of course you would...

Except:

In case that chart is too small to easily read, the US currently has about 50,000 fewer staffed hospital beds right now than we had in 2020.

But wait. From there it gets really weird:

Not one to take an anecdote as data, I looked into hospitals closing ICUs or reducing bed counts...Much more, read all!!