Hospital beds in many hospitals in the United States are in urgent need

Original title: the number of new crown inpatients remains high, and many hospitals in the United States are in urgent need of beds
Xinhua news agency, Beijing, September 14 - according to the data of the U.S. Department of health and human services, the utilization rate of intensive care beds in hospitals across the United States reached about 80% on the 13th; At present, more than 96000 new crown patients are hospitalized, accounting for about 77% of the total number of hospitalized patients.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, the United States has so far accumulated more than 41.2 million newly diagnosed cases and more than 660000 deaths. The spread of delta mutant strain has made the epidemic situation in the United States serious again.

On September 6, people walk in the world trade center station in New York, USA. (photographed by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ying)
Taya brilly, executive vice president of the western Washington State Hospital Association, said on the 13th that the Washington state medical system is facing the most serious impact since the outbreak of the epidemic. Because the new crown patients occupy too many beds, the hospital has to cancel some necessary operations, and the time for diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and stroke has become longer.
There are about 1700 new crown hospitalizations in Washington state. This figure was about 350 in June and early July. Brilly said that about 260 patients use respirators, and new crown patients can be seen everywhere in the hospital aisle.
The Washington State Hospital Association said that in view of its own situation, it is difficult for hospitals in Washington state to assist in the treatment of new crown patients transferred from neighboring Idaho.
Hospitals in Idaho usually send patients with new crowns to Spokane in eastern Washington, but according to breeley, western Washington is already experiencing a "chain reaction".
Due to the shortage of beds, some hospitals in Washington state have to transport patients to further hospitals. However, long-distance transport exacerbates the shortage of ambulances. In Leavenworth, Washington, the cascade Medical Center recently had to airlift patients twice.

On September 6, people walked past the epidemic prevention notice board of a hospital in New York, USA. (photographed by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Ying)
According to the Washington State Department of health data, as of last week, about two-thirds of residents over the age of 12 had completed the whole process of new crown vaccination, and 74% had received at least one dose of vaccine.
In Alabama in the south of the United States, ray demunia, a 73 year old heart patient, had to go to a hospital 270 kilometers away from home because of a difficult bed in the surrounding hospital, and finally died there. Demnia's family said that intensive care beds were occupied by a large number of patients who had not been vaccinated with the new crown vaccine. Medical staff called 43 hospitals in three states and failed to find a cardiac specialist care bed for demnia.
According to the Alabama Hospital Association, there were 2474 new crown hospitalizations in the state on the 13th, of which 86% were not vaccinated. 772 intensive care beds in the state are occupied by new crown patients, accounting for about 50% of the intensive care beds in the state.
In Central Arkansas, governor ASA Hutchinson said last week that only 23 intensive care beds were available in the state. Kentucky governor Andy bayhill said he might soon consider rationing medical resources. (Chen Lixi)