Here’s How Full Hospitals In Minnesota Are

ACROSS MINNESOTA, MN—Patients across the U.S. continue to be admitted to the hospital for COVID-19.

Even as vaccines begin rolling out to health care workers and offer a powerful tool to fight the pandemic, coronavirus case numbers and hospitalizations continue to hit record highs across the U.S.

The latest hospitalization data shows that at least 100,000 Americans or more have near consistently been in the hospital for coronavirus in December. In Minnesota, the hospitalization data shows 895 people are in the hospital as of December 30 for coronavirus.

There are 196 people on ventilators.

The total number of individuals who have ever been hospitalized with the coronavirus is 21,864

In December, the Department of Health and Human Services began reporting hospital capacity data at the facility level, which several have used to determine the percentage of hospital beds occupied across the country.

The HHS data compiled by the University of Minnesota are calculated at the facility level and averaged for each county. Here’s how the model developed by the university measures percentage of hospital and ICU beds occupied by coronavirus patients.

Percentage of hospital beds occupied by coronavirus patients=Seven day average of total adult and pediatric patients confirmed or suspected/Seven day average of staffed inpatient beds

Percentage of ICU beds occupied by coronavirus patients=Seven day average of total adult ICU confirmed/Seven day average of staffed ICU adult beds