Why aren't there enough hospital beds?
As the number of coronavirus patients continues to mount, medical facilities across the country have run out of health-care workers, ventilators and evenAs of April 27, about 1 million people in the U.S. were infected with coronavirus and more than 55,000 people have died.Before the outbreak, the state had 53,000 beds in 187 hospitals.More than 57,000 people have been hospitalized for Covid-19 infections in New York alone as of April 26.
In the event of a more severe outbreak, like the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed 500,000 people in the U.S., about 10 million people would be sent to the hospital.The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the
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