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Half of Low-Income Communities Have No ICU Beds – Mirage News
PHILADELPHIA – A new Penn Medicine study sheds light on yet another reason why the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately killing the poor: Residents…
PHILADELPHIA – A new Penn Medicine study sheds light on yet another reason why the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately killing the poor: Residents in low-income neighborhoods lack access to intensive care unit (ICU) beds.
The study authors used data from the 2017 and 2018 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Healthcare Provers to measure the number of ICU beds per 10,000 residents age 50 or older.
While the shortage of ICU beds in the United States has been documented since the pa…
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