{"id":15507,"date":"2020-03-20T06:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2020-03-20T06:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T10:40:52","slug":"as-coronavirus-spreads-widely-millions-of-older-americans-live-in-counties-with-no-icu-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15507","title":{"rendered":"As Coronavirus Spreads Widely, Millions Of Older Americans Live In Counties With No ICU Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas, Jordan Rau, Liz Szabo, and Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up \u2015 older patients who face the highest risk of serious illness or death from the rapid spread of COVID-19, a Kaiser Health News data analysis shows.<\/p>\n<p>Intensive care units have\u202fsophisticated equipment, such as bedside machines to monitor a patient\u2019s heart rate and ventilators to help them breathe. Even in communities with ICU beds, the numbers vary wildly \u2015 with\u202fsome having just one bed available for thousands of senior residents, according to the analysis based on a review of data hospitals report each year to the federal government.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/as-coronavirus-spreads-widely-millions-of-older-americans-live-in-counties-with-no-icu-beds\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte, Elizabeth Lucas, Jordan Rau, Liz Szabo, and Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News) More than half the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}