As Wisconsin Passes 9,000 COVID Deaths, Hospital Bed Shortage Foreshadows a Grim Future [View all]

actually, there are 9,052 Covid deaths now in WI. damn.


https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/data.htm


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As Wisconsin Passes 9,000 COVID Deaths, Hospital Bed Shortage Foreshadows a Grim Future

As Wisconsin has reached the grim milestone of 9,000 COVID-19-related deaths, an ongoing shortage of hospital beds is impacting patient care efforts and in some cases could endanger people’s lives, hospital officials said.

Smaller hospitals without intensive care unit (ICU) beds typically transfer patients, including those critically ill with COVID-19, to larger sites with ICUs. However, that often isn’t possible as the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has increased in recent weeks, meaning beds at larger hospitals are full too. Statewide, 1,418 patients are hospitalized with the virus, including 393 requiring ICU-level care.

Staff at northern Wisconsin hospitals say they are increasingly unable to transfer patients requiring ICU care because hospitals with those services are already full. That is the case at Western Wisconsin Health in the St. Croix County community of Baldwin, hospital CEO Alison Page said. On Sunday, she said, she called 25 hospitals in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota seeking an ICU bed for a COVID-19 patient but was unable to find one.

“High-level intensive care units are currently overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients,” Page said. “The inability to get really sick people to the level of care they need is causing bad things to happen and people to die.”

—Reported by Julian Emerson


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