ICU bed shortage - central Mass

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/22/metro/hospital-boss-says-there-is-bed-shortage-central-mass-due-covid-19-health-crunch/

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PAYWALL - I will have to dig further to see if they mention any deaths
due to bed shortage

keywords - vague innuendo

10 of 150 icu beds have covid patients

doesnt sound like covid is a major issue

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'The situation is still critical.' Central Mass. hospital chief says
there is an ICU bed shortage due to COVID-19, other factors

By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated September 22, 2021, 11:46 a.m.

The head of UMass Memorial Health based in Worcester said Wednesday
that all the ICU beds in his four-hospital system in central
Massachusetts are taken, owing to COVID-19 and other factors.

Dr. Eric Dickson, president and CEO of the system, which has hospitals
in Worcester, Marlborough, Leominster, and Southbridge, said in a
phone interview that while patients are getting the care they need,
"the situation is still critical."

He said all of his hospital system's roughly 150 intensive care unit
beds were taken as of Wednesday morning, with a waiting list. A UMass
Memorial spokesman later said the system had 14 COVID-positive
patients in the ICU units across the system. There were five patients
waiting for ICU beds Wednesday, though none of them were COVID
patients, the spokesman said.