Prognosis
Hospitals in Western U.S. Under Siege as Covid-19 Packs ICUs
- Intensive-care beds are filling up in Colorado, other states
- ‘It’s hard to believe we are so far into the pandemic.’
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Hospitals in some parts of the U.S. are already starting to see the impact of an autumn wave of Covid-19 infections, the latest sign that the health-care system still faces serious pressure from the virus, even in places that have achieved relatively high vaccination rates.
Intensive-care unit beds occupied by Covid-19 patients are climbing in 12 states from two weeks earlier, with most of them in a contiguous strip running from Arizona and New Mexico, through the Great Plains and into Minnesota. In several Western states, many doctors and nurses haven’t caught their breath from the last round of infections.