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Mar. 1—TALLAHASSEE — For months, Thomas Hladish, a research scientist at the University of Florida's Emerging Pathogens Institute, asked the Florida Department of Health to let him use information from thousands of contact tracers the state had hired to interview Floridians who tested positive for COVID-19. He and his colleagues wanted to better understand where transmission was occurring in ...
ICU Beds Available: 30 In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 227 Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 213 Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 217 Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 57 Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,189 Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 88% DC Public Schools (DCPS) Data December 9, 2020
You're going to make me cry now. >> reporter: it's okay. no, no, it's okay. >> i have a hard time talking about this. just give me a second. this is the hardest part about the whole thing. i'm sorry. >> reporter: it's okay. the hospital now forced to expand their icu bed capacity. >> all of the icus of mine are stretched out. >> reporter: dr. faisal masud is the head of critical care at this hospital. he says this second surge is different. this time, the patients are much younger and he thinks he knows why. so, you're seeing younger patients and you believe it's because they weren't following...
The need to simultaneously hospitalize somewhere on the order of 110,000, 140,000 people all at the same time in new york at peak. i know you're adding bed capacity wherever you can, but do you have a clear expectation of when every bed is going to be full and there won't be room to take more patients? are you sure new york is going to hit that point, and do you know when it might be? >> well, that's the $64,000 question, rachel. you only -- we only know what the projection models say. by the way, the projection models say different things. for example, when do you hit the top of the curve? so...
Bringing into our portfolio to address that 19 to 20,000 gap. we have one in southern california, one in northern california. we're negotiating with many other hospitals to bring them online, local governments are doing the same. but we recognize we need support of the federal government. it was announced last night i announced that we are requesting specific asks of the federal administration. we would like to procure and we've been in conversations going back now a few weeks since the grand princess was the crisis that focused most of our attention at looking at our mobile hospital and the p...