An NPR analysis of the nation's 100,000 ICU beds finds some communities can accommodate far more critically ill patients than others, signaling potential disparities in care in the COVID-19 pandemic.

As COVID-19 ICU bed usage has been on an upward trend over the past few months, but down overall from 2020, Brasser explained that without the widely available vaccine the situation "would be so ...

Overall, 18 million people live in counties that have hospitals but no ICU, about a quarter of them 60 or older, a Kaiser Health News analysis shows.

While there are precious few intensive care beds as coronavirus patients pour into hospitals, "0% availability" carries a big asterisk -- it doesn't mean there were no open ICU beds that day.

But the 73-year-old became an indirect victim of Covid-19 patients filling hospitals and ICU beds. Ray DeMonia wasn’t seeking Covid-19 treatment when he arrived at an Alabama hospital.

The number of open ICU beds in Texas is dependent on each hospital’s staffing, said Lara Anton, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services. That means the total number of ...