More than a quarter of the nation's occupied ICU beds are being used for COVID-19 patients.
as other ICU admissions, meaning ongoing waves of cases grow only more dire for full hospitals as people with new illnesses become sicker over time.said they were reaching capacity in their ICUs as states with lower vaccination rates reported dramatic upticks in infections. Louisiana described the recent wave as the “darkest” in the pandemic thus far, and Arkansas said it had just eight ICU beds available .
Health care workers “are tired, and there is a level of frustration when you know the COVID patient you are caring for was not vaccinated and it was largely preventable,” Jason Chang, the chief operating officer at Hawaii’s The Queen’s Health Systems hospitals, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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