Nonwhite and Hispanic people under age 65 are dying from COVID-19 more often than white Americans in the same age group, according to the new CDC data cited by STAT.
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About 16.5 percent of the more than 6,000 intensive care unit beds at Florida hospitals are available as of July 24, and there are 9,225 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state, according to data from the Florida Agency for…
Georgia officials are working to reactivate a temporary field hospital at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center after hospital chiefs in the state urged Gov. Brian Kemp to come up with more hospital beds so their organizations can maintain elective surgeries,…
Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have performed a double lung transplant on a second COVID-19 patient.
Five of Mississippi's largest hospitals ran out of intensive care unit beds July 9 amid a major surge of COVID-19 cases in the state, reports the Jackson Free Press.
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Hospital intensive care units at 56 Florida hospitals reached capacity as of July 22, according to data from the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration.
Unlike the initial surge of COVID-19 in the United States this spring, fewer hospitals are choosing to suspend elective surgeries despite an increase in coronavirus patients in several states. Here are organizations that have done so as of July 10,…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation July 9 that will require hospitals in more than 100 counties to suspend elective care.
As coronavirus hospitalizations surge in South Carolina, Tidelands Health is rescheduling inpatient elective surgeries and working to increase its workforce, according to WPDE.
UnitedHealthcare will expand what insulin pumps it considers in-network after a policy change limited which devices were covered.