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  • Oregon COVID Patient Dies After Hospital Runs Out of ICU Beds

    08/20/2021 3:01:16 AM PDT · by blueplum · 91 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 20 August 2021 | James Crump
    A COVID-19 patient in Oregon has died while waiting for an ICU bed to open up amid overrun hospitals across the U.S. due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant... "It had been several hours because other COVID positive patients had filled those beds. Even after expanding ICU care onto other floors, there weren't any beds available for this patient. We didn't have enough. This patient died in the Emergency Department waiting for an Intensive Care Unit bed."... ...The state only has 41 ICU beds and 310 non-ICU beds available for patients, while 870 COVID-19 patients are currently...