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The US last got data in 2010 I believe. I believe this is the paper many people site today: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-publ
by kyrra 7y ago
The US last got data in 2010 I believe. I believe this is the paper many people site today:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-and-public-health-preparedness/article/mechanical-ventilators-in-us-acute-care-hospitals/F1FDBACA53531F2A150D6AD8E96F144D https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-an...
> The median number of full-feature mechanical ventilators
per 100,000 population for individual states is 19.7 (interquartile ratio 17.2–23.1), ranging from 11.9 to 77.6
Edit: WSJ opinion linked to a NIH study from 2012.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-intensive-care-dividend-11584399701 https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-intensive-care-dividen...
> A 2012 review [1] in the journal Current Opinion in Critical Care found that the U.S. has 20 to 31.7 ICU beds per 100,000 people compared to 13.5 in Canada, 7.9 in Japan and between 3.5 and 7.4 in the U.K. Differences in how countries define “ICU” account for some of the disparity, the article notes, and the U.S. needs more ICU beds because it has a higher incidence of chronic conditions like heart disease.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551445/?mod=article_inline https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551445/?mod=ar...
- wickedwiesel 7y agoSince I looked around a lot for newer numbers, I thought I'd point out some newer numbers in my reply to the sibling comment [0]. In summary: Data for the US from 2016-2018 suggest 93,000 ICU beds total, that is a ratio of 28.43 per 100,000. (research referenced in WoPo article linked in the comment below). For comparison, Germany (official 2017 data) has 28031 ICU beds total, a ration of 33.76 per 100,000. Both countries likely have the highest ratio in the world at this time. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22711215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22711215