The federal government of the United States released an updated set of detailed hospital-level data in late December 2019, showing the toll COVID-19 is taking on health care facilities. That includes how many inpatient and ICU beds are available on a weekly basis.
Using an analysis from the University of Minnesota’s COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project, the NPR (National Public Radio, non-profit media organization) has created a tool that allows you to see how your local hospital and your county overall are faring.
It focuses on one important metric — how many beds are filled with COVID-19 patients — and shows this for each hospital and on average for each county.
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The ratio of COVID-19 hospitalizations to total beds gives a picture of how much strain a hospital is under. Though there’s not a clear threshold, it’s concerning when that rate rises above 10%.
Anything above 20% represents “extreme stress” for the hospital, according to a framework developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
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