How overwhelmed is your local hospital?
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USA TODAY is analyzing ICU data from more than 4,500 hospitals around the country. Use our online search tool to look up those in your city or state.
Detailed data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services illustrates the dire impact of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s hospitals.
From Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to St. Vincent’s in Birmingham, Alabama, to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, USA TODAY found 257 hospitals reporting full intensive care units as of Christmas Eve. A total of 948 hospitals reported more COVID-19 patients in the ICU compared with the previous week, and 1,552 had more COVID-19 patients overall.
You can see which hospitals in your community are overwhelmed by using USA TODAY’s search tool, which you can find here: hospitals.usatoday.com.
This data, reported by more than 4,500 hospitals for the week of Dec. 1824, does not include hospitals run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Defense Health Agency and Indian Health Service. Figures from some small hospitals have been removed from the HHS data set.
COVID-19 cases are soaring nationwide: More than 5.7 million cases have been reported in December. More than 66,000 have died of the disease in December, making it the deadliest month for COVID-19 in America.
HHS began reporting individual hospital occupancy rates in December, including detailed statistics for intensive care units. USA TODAY will keep its searchable database updated.
Intensive care units are filling up disproportionately in counties in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, the data shows.
Of the 206 counties nationwide with average hospital ICU occupancy above 90%, more than half are in the South, according to USA TODAY’s analysis.