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A Purple Heart vet who fought in Afghanistan died of a treatable disease while waiting hours for an ICU bed
Daniel Wilkinson waited seven hours before hearing about an available ICU bed. But by that point, h…
Yelena Dzhanova
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A Kansas man died waiting for an ICU bed while hospitals were filled to capacity with COVID-19 patients
Robert Van Pelt waited days for an ICU bed because all nearby hospitals were full. By the time a be…
Taylor Ardrey
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Oklahoma doctors called 40 hospitals to find an ICU bed for a COVID-19 patient with internal bleeding. None of them had space and he died.
Forty hospitals across four states reportedly did not have an available ICU bed for 69-year-old Joh…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Alabama is out of ICU beds amid a COVID-19 surge, with some patients being treated on gurneys in hallways, hospitals chief says
As of Tuesday, Alabama had more ICU patients than it had ICU beds, the head of the state's hospital…
Mia Jankowicz
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Illinois governor says COVID-19 surge has left ICU capacity 'frighteningly limited' in parts of the state
Just 316 of 2,977 ICU beds are available across the entire state, according to the Illinois Departm…
Jake Epstein
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Hospitals around Austin, Texas, have run out of staffed adult ICU beds as the state's COVID-19 surge continues
The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting that there are no adult ICU beds in an 1…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Texas judge says parents whose kids need an ICU bed will have to 'wait for another child to die'
If any children contract COVID-19 and need an ICU bed, "we don't have one," Dallas County Judge Cla…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Delhi Govt to contest HC stay on its plan to reserve 80% ICU beds for COVID patients in private hospitals
New Delhi, Sep 22 () The Delhi government on Tuesday said it will challenge the high court's order …
PTI
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The Texas Medical Center scrubbed data showing ICU beds at full capacity as the state's coronavirus cases spike
The medical center had no empty ICU beds by Thursday. Its ICU capacity is usually between 70% and 8…
Isaac Scher
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Many private hospitals in Delhi run out of ICU beds as COVID-19 cases spike
The availability of ICU beds with ventilators in these hospitals has gone down to zero. Such …
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Texas hospitals are rushing to expand their ICU capacity, at the front line of a wider surge in US coronavirus cases
With 5,000 new cases of the coronavirus being recorded daily, authorities in Texas are planning on …
Tom Porter
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Hospitals in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Texas are running out of ICU beds as COVID-19 hospitalizations increase
In Alabama, 1,621 patients were in need of ICU beds on Tuesday, but only 1,537 beds were available …
Vanessa Gu
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Florida's ICU beds are 84% filled as the state battles a surge in COVID-19 cases
According to the state's data, only 921 of Florida's 5,315 ICU beds in hospitals across the state w…
Kelly McLaughlin
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NYC has more than doubled its ICU beds from 1,600 to 3,500 to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. Here's how hospitals in the city ramped up.
In a hospital, there might be a number of intensive care units, focused on specialties like neurolo…
Lydia Ramsey,Jeremy Berke
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'You got me emotional': Joe Biden started tearing up after talking to a nurse about treating COVID-19 patients in ICU
President-elect Joe Biden has been making the rounds in ahead of his administration's transition to…
Allana Akhtar
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There are just 99 ICU beds left in all of Tennessee as a record-breaking COVID-19 spike ravages the state
Tennessee's shortage of ICU beds comes as the state is averaging close to 7,000 COVID-19 cases a da…
Jake Epstein
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An ICU nurse went viral for quitting after 19 grueling months of the pandemic. Now, he says he's more relaxed and is encouraging other healthcare workers to do the same.
Andrew Hudson went viral for a video explaining why he quit nursing. Now he's a podcaster and digit…