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This one is for Teejers...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...-keeps-hid

For instance, the most recent report obtained by NPR, dated Oct 27, lists cities where hospitals are filling up, including the metro areas of Atlanta, Minneapolis and Baltimore, where in-patient hospital beds are over 80% full. It also lists specific hospitals reaching max capacity, including facilities in Tampa, Birmingham and New York that are at over 95% ICU capacity and at risk of running out of intensive care beds.

Indeed it would be useful for policy making purposes at a local level if this data were widely available.

(It would also be useful to know how this compares to typical utilization rates for this time of year; maybe because I did my residency in a facility that was chronically at capacity, 80% is not shocking, but I also know that the old UCLA medical center was the exception and not the rule.)

BC

[BostonCard]

This one is for Teejers...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...-keeps-hid

For instance, the most recent report obtained by NPR, dated Oct 27, lists cities where hospitals are filling up, including the metro areas of Atlanta, Minneapolis and Baltimore, where in-patient hospital beds are over 80% full. It also lists specific hospitals reaching max capacity, including facilities in Tampa, Birmingham and New York that are at over 95% ICU capacity and at risk of running out of intensive care beds.

Indeed it would be useful for policy making purposes at a local level if this data were widely available.

(It would also be useful to know how this compares to typical utilization rates for this time of year; maybe because I did my residency in a facility that was chronically at capacity, 80% is not shocking, but I also know that the old UCLA medical center was the exception and not the rule.)

BC