Health
Hospital ICU bed capacity isn’t the only issue with critical Covid care – Vox.com
Adding trained staff is much more difficult than making a physical ICU bed, especially deep into a pandemic.
As of mid-December, hospitals on average had just 22 percent of their intensive care unit (ICU) beds available across the country, and many were completely full. As the Covid-19 surge continues to intensify, lack of ICU beds can have dire consequences, including not being able to properly care for the sickestpatients, potentially rationing lifesaving care.
But even these bed capacity numbers dont tell the whole story.
Adding extra critical-care beds in other departments or buildings takes precious…
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