{"id":1789775,"date":"2020-12-14T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789775"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:21:14","slug":"mapping-covid-19-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/mapping-covid-19-hospitalizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping COVID-19 Hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that seems to worry authorities most about COVID-19 is its potential to overwhelm hospitals, at which point the mortality rate really begins to shoot up. In March, the University of Minnesota\u2019s Carlson School of Management released the <a href=\"https:\/\/carlsonschool.umn.edu\/mili-misrc-covid19-tracking-project\">COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project<\/a>, which maps, on a county-by-county, basis, the percentage of hospital and ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 patients. [<a href=\"http:\/\/googlemapsmania.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/the-hospital-capacity-map.html\">Maps Mania<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that seems to worry authorities most about COVID-19 is its potential to overwhelm hospitals, at which point the mortality rate really begins to shoot up. In March, the University of Minnesota\u2019s Carlson School&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/mapping-covid-19-hospitalizations\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[1413,1426,228,1445,158],"class_list":["post-1789775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-health","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-pandemics","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790029,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/covid-19-in-the-united-states-a-map-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789775,"position":0},"title":"COVID-19 in the United States: A Map Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 January 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The New York Times maps the risk of getting COVID-19 in the United States on a county-by-county basis (previously: Mapping COVID-19 Exposure Risk at Events). 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