Lessons From The COVID-19 Crisis: Overcrowding Hospitals Cost Lives

Many hospitals, including Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, reported reaching capacity in their ICUs during the winter surge in COVID hospitalizations. These conditions, according to research, may have led to more deaths.

Researchers have quantified the price paid for fast-spreading COVID-19 infections. Patients who might have survived otherwise perished in crowded ICUs.

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Will Stone