Reasonable .... yes in theory .... but apparently hospitals in a great many areas never maxed out capacity. Was the Mercy Ship Trump moved to NYC even used?
As another data point, I mentioned this comment to my (nurse) friend that went up to NYC to help out, and when she stopped laughing she let me know that they absolutely did max out hospital capacity in NYC. Not beds, but they ran out of trained folks to care for ICU patients and had to significantly lower the standard of care. Things like instead of 1 or 2 trained Critical Care nurses per vented ICU patient, there would be one Critical care nurse for every 5 or 6 patients and med/surg nurses falling in to try and fill the gaps, as well as accelerated/abbreviated Critical Care training to try and get folks that didn't have the skills to help up to speed. This happened with NP's as well, apparently. They had enough beds for the patients with the added COVID wards, but not enough trained staff to take care of them. This is probably why the Mercy seemed under utilized, as it didn't bring what was needed to the city.
Something to think about when yo read "XX ICU Beds free". It doesn't really help if there's no one to administer care.
So I learned something new today.