"The hospitals are considering restricting non urgent surgeries to create more space"
So, admittance has increased since they have...began admitting more people?
Yes, this was mentioned before, but many seem to overlook it. 2 months or so ago when "most" hospitals didn't have much CV-19 related activity, many basically ended up being near ghost towns (except a few select hot spots, NYC and a few others). People weren't coming in for GP visits, and even ER's were near empty. Most all elective surgeries were put on hold, fearing the need for ICU space and beds. Staff was getting furloughed due to lack of activity.
So, once we started seeing a steady dropping CV-19 positives and low ICU, beds occupied, the hospitals started allowing REGULAR non CV-19 patients back in for elective surgeries and other medical care needs earlier put on hold.
In recent weeks hospitals were filling back up to near normal activity with REGULAR patients. But now with this new spike in CV-19 cases, some needing hospitalization/ICU, they're going to have to start cancelling all the non-CV-19 patient surgeries again until bed/ICU capacity gets back to earlier shutdown levels.
Once we start seeing a leveling off of NEW CV-19 patients in hospitals, and eventual release (or worse case, death), then they will slowly be able to start accepting non-CV-19 patients again for typical surgeries most do on a day in/day out basis.
This is the main reason some hospitals are reaching near capacity again. Some will need to transfer to other hospitals if emergencies are required or put off that cancer surgery and what-not a bit longer.