Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.

Critical Staffing Level, though down from 2023 high, has been well above 2022 lvl for over a year—some one in ten reporting hospitals at critical shortage.

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Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, now near enough one in five pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.

PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 70%.

Weekly average ~75 PICU beds were covid patients.

We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.

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Some 341 (+18) counties reporting pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).

Of 277 (+7) counties reporting any PICU capacity, well over one in five are near or over full.

So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.

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Counties by reported pediatric capacity (darkest counties on map above):

⒈ Ada, ID ≥150%

⒉ Raleigh, WV ≥150%
⒊ Androscoggin, ME ≥150%
⒋ St. Clair, IL ≥150%
⒌ Bryan, OK ≥150%
⒍ Crisp, GA ≥150%
⒎ Sioux, IA ≥150%

[Omitted: 43 counties w/ ZERO staffed peds. beds; fewer than 4 peds. patients.]

⒏ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒐ Jackson, IN ≥150%
⒑ Kenai Pens. Boro., AK ≥150%
⒒ San Juan, UT ≥150%

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Counties by reported pediatric ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above):

⒈ Ada, ID ≥150%

⒉ Androscoggin, ME ≥150%

⒊ Somerset, ME ≥150%
⒋ Fremont, WY ≥150%

⒌ Monroe, NY—109%

⒍ Jefferson, TX—100%
⒎ Hamilton, TN—100%
⒏ Denton, TX—100%

⒐ Brazos, TX—100%
⒑ Medina, TX—100%

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"Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…continues to struggle daily with unprecedented overcrowding – particularly in its Emergency Department (ED)."

Statistics, as always, are structural.

Data reported to HHS don't include ED patients awaiting inpatient beds. Moreover, weekly data can easily obscure daily overcrowding.

If MGH can be in 16-month unprecedented crisis w/out ever topping 100% reported capacity, just imagine degree of crisis in hospitals ≥100%.

Some 39 (-5) counties are reporting ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.

Reporting ≥ 90%: 210 (-7)—near 9% of those w/ any capacity.

This includes surge & overflow beds—near full can mean E/Rs with hours-long even day-long wait times.

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112096016017762251

For counties w/ ICUs—over one in six are full or near full.

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Occupied beds in excess of staffed beds indicates that patients are not receiving adequate care.

For comparison, Suffolk County, MA is at 93% adult hospital capacity, 88% adult ICU.

Mass. General—at 95% capacity/95% ICU—largest of some dozen Suffolk hospitals already 18 months into "unprecedented capacity crisis".

https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112215921983104034

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