200 hospitals have been at full capacity, and 1/3 of all US hospitals are almost out of ICU space

December 11, 2020

Newly released data from the US Department of Health and Human Services show at least 200 hospitals were at full capacity last week. And in one third of all US hospitals, more than 90% of all ICU beds were occupied. Coronavirus patients occupied 46% of all staffed ICU beds -- up from 37% in the first week of November. "We are in a totally unprecedented health crisis in this country," former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. "We've got to take what we've learned in the last eight months and really put it into practice so we don't continue to have this unthinkable death toll and disease toll," Sebelius said.