{"id":1791594,"date":"2021-08-18T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791594"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:27:20","slug":"mapping-icu-capacity-during-the-delta-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/mapping-icu-capacity-during-the-delta-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping ICU Capacity During the Delta Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1791595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1791595\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/08\/17\/us\/covid-delta-hospitalizations.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1791595\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/mapping-icu-capacity-during-the-delta-wave\/nyt-icu-beds\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1520,1050\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nyt-icu-beds\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The New York Times (screenshot)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-300x207.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-1024x707.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1791595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"New York Times map of ICU capacity in the United States\" width=\"760\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-940x649.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds-579x400.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nyt-icu-beds.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1791595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New York Times (screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks to a combination of low vaccination rates and the COVID-19 Delta variant, intensive care wards are filling up across the United States. The <em>New York Times<\/em> maps one of the more disturbing metrics of the pandemic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/08\/17\/us\/covid-delta-hospitalizations.html\">the percentage of occupied <abbr title=\"Intensive Care Unit\">ICU<\/abbr> beds by hospital region<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a combination of low vaccination rates and the COVID-19 Delta variant, intensive care wards are filling up across the United States. The New York Times maps one of the more disturbing metrics of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/mapping-icu-capacity-during-the-delta-wave\/\">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":[1413,1426,228,1530,140,1445,158],"class_list":["post-1791594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-health","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","tag-hospitals","tag-new-york-times","tag-pandemics","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789775,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/mapping-covid-19-hospitalizations\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791594,"position":0},"title":"Mapping COVID-19 Hospitalizations","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 December 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"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 COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project, which maps, on a county-by-county, basis, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1805827,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/covid-19-deaths-in-the-post-vaccine-era\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791594,"position":1},"title":"COVID-19 Deaths in the Post-Vaccine Era","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 January 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The New York Times looks at the death rates from COVID-19 after vaccines became widely available. Along with analyses of racial and age groups, there is this on the geographic front: \u201cWhere people are dying of Covid-19 also has changed since vaccines became widely available. Death rates fell in most\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Maps from the New York Times showing in which U.S. counties COVID deaths increased or decreased after vaccines became widely available.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nyt-covid-deaths-1024x320.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nyt-covid-deaths-1024x320.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nyt-covid-deaths-1024x320.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/nyt-covid-deaths-1024x320.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1790070,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/covid-19-in-los-angeles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791594,"position":2},"title":"COVID-19 in Los Angeles","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The New York Times maps the distribution of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles. \u201cCounty officials recently estimated that one in three of Los Angeles County\u2019s roughly 10 million people have been infected with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. But even amid an uncontrolled outbreak, some Angelenos have faced\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nytimes-la-covid-1024x640.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nytimes-la-covid-1024x640.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nytimes-la-covid-1024x640.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nytimes-la-covid-1024x640.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1789534,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/covid-zones\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791594,"position":3},"title":"COVID Zones","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Rather than applying restrictions across their entire jurisdictions, several authorities are designating zones to target measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus where the spread is at its greatest. Maps can quickly indicate not only where COVID is at its worst, but also where restrictions have been put into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/covid-zones.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/covid-zones.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/covid-zones.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/covid-zones.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/covid-zones.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/covid-zones.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788575,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/still-more-coronavirus-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791594,"position":4},"title":"Still More Coronavirus Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 March 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Kera Till\u2019s \u201cCommuting in Corona Times\u201d is a transit map of the new normal. More at Untapped New York. On a personal level, the coronavirus map I stare at the most is the one closest to home: a dashboard that shows the regional incidence of COVID-19 in Quebec. 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The map and searchable database are based on their survey of more than 1,600 post-secondary institutions; the survey \u201chas revealed at least 88,000 cases and at least 60 deaths since the pandemic began. 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