https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewals...h=30a174bc6bb5
Almost 78% of beds in U.S. hospital intensive care units are in use, and roughly one-third of adult ICU patients (or 22,345) have the coronavirus, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Alabama has the nation’s worst capacity crunch, with HHS reporting more ICU patients than total beds — health officials said Alabama ran out of ICU capacity Wednesday and dozens of patients were forced to wait for space, as the state grapples with the country’s eighth-highest Covid-19 infection rate (cases have dropped off slightly in the last week).
In Georgia, 94% of statewide ICU beds are currently in use following a 74% jump in daily coronavirus cases over the last two weeks, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported some Atlanta hospitals needed to divert ambulances due to capacity issues.
ICU capacity sits at 93.2% in Florida and 93% in Mississippi, which have the nation’s third-highest and highest new Covid-19 infection rates, respectively.
Texas reported ICU usage of 92.7%, and Dallas-area hospitals warned Thursday that if their region runs out of intensive care beds, they may need to consider vaccination status when prioritizing who to treat.
Kentucky is using 90.7% of its ICU beds, and Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday every hospital bed in the state may be taken up in the next two weeks.
ICU occupancy is above 80% in 10 other states: Louisiana (89.3%), Missouri (88.9%), Oklahoma (87.9%), Arkansas (87.4%), Nevada (85.4%), North Carolina (84.8%), South Carolina (83.8%), New Mexico (83.6%), Idaho (82.7%) and Maine (80.4%).
TANGENT
Hospital admissions have risen nationwide in recent weeks. An average of 11,521 new Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospitals every day in the week ending Tuesday, up 48% in two weeks, according to the CDC. Daily hospitalizations are still below their early January peak, when more than 16,000 Americans entered hospitals with the coronavirus every day.
The virus must be cherry picking republican states and 3rd world hell holes like alabama, huh?
Amazing. They will say anything.. "Theres one bed left! thats not full!!" to try avoid the fact that they are wrong, listen to a rape daddy for medical advice, and ready to chow down PARASITE medicine for a virus. I present to you the republican education system.
I guess you could say 78% is not "wide spread" but when is it? 79%? 80%? 90%? Cause, when I learned math, if its like more than 50 of 100, thats more and half. 78 out of 100 is more than three quarters. So if I took mustard and slathered it over 78% of your house, that would not be wide spread. Got it.