- The rapidly spreading Delta variant has resulted in 1/4 southern US hospitals reporting at least 95% ICU bed occupation rates, up from 1/5 last month and 1/10 in June (2021).
- 100% of Alabama’s ICU beds are currently occupied, forcing hospitals to use ambulances and waiting rooms as makeshift ICUs.
- There are only 700 available ICU beds across the entire state of Texas.
- The surge is indirectly harming non-Covid patients such as those experiencing sudden strokes and heart attacks struggling to secure ICU beds.
