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Thursday, December 17, 2020

How Bad Is It at UCLA?

From NPR: ...The ratio of COVID-19 hospitalizations to total beds gives a picture of how much strain a hospital is under. Though there's not a clear threshold, it's concerning when that rate rises above 10%, hospital capacity experts told NPR. Anything above 20% represents "extreme stress" for the hospital, according to a framework developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington...

Full story at https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/944379919/new-data-reveal-which-hospitals-are-dangerously-full-is-yours

Data from the search engine in the article above:

                         % Coronavirus       % All Causes

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UCLA-Westwood                  15%                96%

UCLA-Santa Monica              16%                90%

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Note: It's not clear how current these data are.

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