Dozens of Florida hospitals out of available ICU beds, state data shows
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - More than four dozen hospitals in Florida reported that their intensive care units (ICUs) have reached full capacity on Tuesday as COVID-19 cases surge in the state and throughout the country.
Hospital ICUs were full at 54 hospitals across 25 of Floridas 67 counties, according to data published on Tuesday morning by the states Agency for Health Care Administration. More than 300 hospitals were included in the report, but not all had adult ICUs.
Thirty hospitals reported that their ICUs were more than 90% full. Statewide, only 17% of the total 6,010 adult ICU beds were available on Tuesday, down from 20% three days ago, according to the agencys website.
Floridas coronavirus cases have soared in the last month, with the states daily count topping 10,000 three times in the last week. The death rate from COVID-19 rose nearly 19% in the last week from the week prior, bringing the states death toll to more than 3,800.
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Wheres the ol Comfort these days? Still in Norfolk?
roamer65
(36,745 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)It seems like only a month ago that COVID-19 was over and people were once dining out. For example, at the new site for the RNC convention: