U.S. may face critical hospital bed shortage --study

US warned of 2032 hospital crisis A growing shortage of beds may end up seeing "tens to hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths each year," researchers said. Newsweek

U.S. hospitals are on track for a crisis come 2032 that may lead to hundreds of thousands of additional deaths each year.

This is the warning of a study by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who found that hospitals are not only fuller now than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic—but are on track to exceed the critical threshold of 85 percent hospital occupancy within just seven years.

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