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Map: Pediatric Hospital & PICU Capacity by County & State Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute As of Apr 27, 2024 Shows a color scale of 7-day average inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average inpatient beds staff for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to light yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks reflecting state-level average. Sparse grey dots show vast expanses where no PICU beds are reported. Dense patterns of black dots represent counties where PICUs are full or near full. Much of the map is hatched purple-red with grey dots, with purple-red-orange counties. Interspersed with scattered yellow, mostly in Mississippi watershed and central Texas, with most yellow counties closer to the Mississippi watershed. Black and black-dotted counties can be spied in all regions. The state of Idaho stands out as a purple-grey hatch surrounded red/orange/yellow hatches in surrounding states. Some 290 (counties reporting pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%). Of 271 counties reporting any PICU capacity, over one in five are near or over full. So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care. ❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks