By JEFF HORSEMAN
The Press-Enterprise
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2020 at 12:53 p.m. | UPDATED: July 7, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

Six of Riverside County’s 17 acute-care hospitals are over their licensed capacity for intensive-care beds, the Board of Supervisors were told Tuesday, July 7, during an update on the coronavirus pandemic.

While hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients in the county continue to hit new highs, Emergency Management Director Bruce Barton stressed that hospitals “are not overwhelmed” and still have capacity to take patients. The six hospitals are “utilizing other ICU beds according to their surge plan,” Barton told the board during its regular meeting.

Still, the situation speaks to the stress the recent surge in COVID-19 cases has placed on the county’s health care system. In the past month, confirmed cases have more than doubled — going into Tuesday, the county had 20,555 cases and 486 deaths from the virus.

County spokeswoman Brooke Federico declined to say which six hospitals are over their ICU capacity. That’s “because we look at all hospitals as one system that works together during disaster and emergencies …,” she said via a text message ...

https://www.pe.com/2020/07/07/six-of-17-riverside-county-hospitals-exceed-icu-capacity/

Author: Lauren Hensley
Published: 3:45 PM CDT July 7, 2020
Updated: 3:45 PM CDT July 7, 2020

BEAUMONT, Texas — Jefferson County is now dealing with more patients fighting for their lives from coronavirus than any other time since the pandemic began.

Jefferson County Judge Jeff Branick tells 12News that ICU beds in Jefferson County are full and reaching maximum capacity.

"As of today, our hospital beds are at ICU capacity," Branick said. "They have the highest number of COVID patients (since) the end of May" ...

https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/jefferson-county-hospitals-near-icu-capacity/502-0e8226f3-4c97-497e-8ea0-736beec53aea

By Nicole Chavez and Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Updated 9:37 PM ET, Tue July 7, 2020

The worsening coronavirus pandemic hit a series of somber peaks across the United States on Tuesday, renewing fears that more hospitals could be overloaded with Covid-19 patients.

At least 56 intensive care units in Florida hospitals reached capacity on Tuesday, state officials said. Another 35 hospitals show ICU bed availability of 10% or less, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration in that state.

Georgia surpassed 100,000 reported coronavirus cases, becoming the ninth state to pass the mark ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html

a trump failure of leadership and he owns it along with every GOP Gov who rushed to reopen.

btw, this will explode in next 7-14 days as the July 4th weekend starts impacting the data and hospital demands