So the hospitals _are_ full but they're actually not full, their capacity is lower than last year?
Do you have any sources that can back that claim? It seems like a first order, simple, cause and effect thought, but it's unclear if this is anecdotal or there was a mass firing of nurses that's got under the radar. Let's signal boost it, if so.
Also more recently from firing nurses who don't want to get vaccinated, who had worked for all of last year without a vaccine.