Two hundred nine US counties face a crisis in staffing ICUs that care for COVID-19 patients

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Two hundred nine US counties face a crisis in staffing ICUs that care for COVID-19 patients

Over the next month, 209 U.S. counties in the United States will need to implement crisis workforce strategies to deal with potentially dangerous shortfalls of intensive care unit doctors, according to a new analysis published today. The analysis draws on data from a just launched county-level hospital workforce estimator, one that takes into account the strain on staffing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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