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Millions of older Americans live in counties with no ICU beds as pandemic intensifies

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Tags: healthcare, coronaviruses.covid19, usa, hospitals, senior citizens, intensive care, author.fred schulte, author.elizabeth lucas, author.jordan rau, author.liz szabo, author.jay hancock, source.khn
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Title
As Coronavirus Spreads Widely, Millions Of Older Americans Live In Counties With No ICU Beds
Authors
Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas, Jordan Rau, Liz Szabo, Jay Hancock
Published
Mar 20 2020
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2165 words

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    From the article: Found via a Washington Post article about their political affiliations.

    From the article:

    Overall, 18 million people live in counties that have hospitals but no ICU, about a quarter of them 60 or older, the analysis shows. Nearly 11 million more Americans reside in counties with no hospital, some 2.7 million of them seniors.

    Dr. Karen Joynt Maddox, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said that hospitals with larger numbers of ICU beds tend to cluster in higher-income areas where many patients have private health insurance.

    “Hospital beds and ICU beds have cropped up where the economics can support them,” she said. “We lack capacity everywhere, but there are pretty big differences in terms of per capita resources.”

    Found via a Washington Post article about their political affiliations.

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