US data:
✔total of 2704 hospitals
✔534,964 hospital beds
✔96,596 ICU beds (of them 68,558 adult ICU beds)
✔70% normal occupancy rate for ICU beds
✔70% of available ICU beds 67,617
✔28,980 ICU beds available for covid in normal occupancy rate
✔1320 rural ICU beds
✔4715 micropolitan ICU beds

Rural hospitals rely on transfers to micro- & metropolitan hospitals that are also overwhelmed & dont accept patients >> more death awaiting transfers
✔in 1 months hospitalizations increased from 48,693 to 100,226
✔in 1 month ICU admissions increased from 9,867 to 19,396

We cannot continue with this rate.
A friendly reminder - when the curve is steep, we are in a death zone
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