A majority of U.S. states at the moment have 80 p.c or extra intensive care unit (ICU) beds in use because the COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to unfold all through the nation.
Information from the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) confirmed that not less than 28 states at the moment have 80 p.c or extra ICU beds at the moment in use. In response to the info, Rhode Island is at the moment seeing the very best proportion of ICU beds in use as 95.68 beds are at the moment occupied. The information additionally confirmed that in Rhode Island, COVID-19 sufferers at the moment account for 42.45 p.c of ICU beds in use.
New Mexico and Kentucky are following carefully behind Rhode Island as they each have not less than 90 p.c of ICU beds at the moment occupied. In response to the info, in New Mexico, 37 p.c of ICU beds are being utilized by COVID-19 sufferers, whereas COVID-19 sufferers in Kentucky account for 30 p.c of ICU beds in use.
The opposite states which have 80 p.c or extra ICU beds in use embody Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The information confirmed that a number of different states had 70 p.c or extra ICU beds in use and solely 4 states had under this mark, which included Hawaii, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota.
The variety of states seeing a excessive proportion of ICU beds in use comes because the COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to unfold all through the nation. In response to knowledge from the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. is at the moment averaging round 674,406 new COVID-19 instances per day. Compared, in early December, the nation was averaging round 108,000 new instances per day.
Information from the CDC additionally confirmed that the Omicron variant now accounts for a majority of recent COVID-19 instances. Well being officers have just lately stated that preliminary data confirmed that the Omicron variant is much less extreme than the Delta variant.
"The one problem is that you probably have so many instances, even when the speed of hospitalization is decrease with Omicron than it's with Delta, there may be nonetheless the hazard that you'll have a surging of hospitalizations that may stress the healthcare system," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's main infectious illness professional, stated throughout an interview with CNN final week.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky made related feedback throughout an interview with Fox Information this previous weekend, however famous "given the quantity of instances that we're with Omicron, we very properly might even see dying charges rise dramatically."
Newsweek reached out to the HHS for remark.
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