Prognosis
Colorado Hospitals ‘Threatened’ With Just 75 ICU Beds Open
- Virus on ‘upward trajectory’ even with high vaccination rate
- Officials say 80% of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated
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The number of hospital intensive care unit beds available in Colorado, a state with a population of 5.7 million people, is just 75 as of Wednesday, a new pandemic low, officials said.
The number of available medical-surgical unit beds also set a new low of 575, Scott Bookman, Covid-19 incident commander at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said during an online news briefing.