ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 12月10日 02時02分

More than a third of people in the U.S. live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds, federal data show, revealing a newly detailed picture of the nation’s hospital crisis during the deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic.

Hospitals serving more than 100 million Americans reported having fewer than 15% of intensive care beds still available as of last week, according to a Times analysis of data reported by hospitals and released by @hhsgov.

Many areas are even worse off:1 in 10 Americans — across the Midwest, South and Southwest — lives in an area where intensive care beds are either completely full, or fewer than 5% of beds are available.

At these levels, experts say maintaining existing standards of care for the sickest patients may be difficult or impossible. “There’s only so much our frontline care can offer, particularly when you get to these really rural counties which are being hit hard by the pandemic right now,” said Beth Blauer, director of the Centers for Civic Impact at @johnshopkinsu.

The new dataset, released on Monday, was the first time the federal government has published detailed geographic information on Covid-19 patients in hospitals, something public health officials have long said would be crucial to responding to the coronavirus crisis and understanding its impact. Tap the link in our bio to read more.

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