I'll bet most people don't think the chart looks like that.
Now given that the U.S. has 6000+ hospitals, some number of them will experience high occupancy from time to time, as has happened numerous times in the past. The chart above shows the aggregate numbers, which do not appear to be abnormal.
With COVID hospitalizations increasing, though, how can this be?
Weiss explains:
"1. Wide COVID spread means people coming in for non-COVID issues but still count as COVID patients."
"2. COVID patients replacing flu patients."
And hence this: