Half of Low-Income Communities Have No ICU Beds

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

While the shortage of ICU beds in the United States has been documented since the pandemic began, the new report, published Monday in the August issue of Health Affairs, is the first to show how starkly a person’s ZIP code affects access to COVID-19 care. Most dramatically, approximately half of communities with the lowest median household […]

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