That's not a pleasant statistic to hear
- Hospitals moving away from regular operations when infection levels are high
- Many hospital employees are working to capacity
At the start of October, there were 362 coronavirus patients needing intensive care. That figure has jumped up to 2,243 coronavirus patients as of yesterday.
The "bright spot" if you really want to consider it, is that intensive care beds still have 27% capacity i.e. 7,893 across the country and that is little changed compared to the 28% at the start of October i.e. 8,706.
However, this figure is also largely affected by deaths from the virus and other diseases, or perhaps discharges, but I would not doubt that healthcare workers will have less time to deal with their usual day-to-day when the virus infection is soaring.
