Governor Tom Wolf said yesterday that the state’s hospital beds are “beginning to fill up”, and that at the current rate of Covid-19 cases, “our hospitals will soon be overwhelmed.”
About sixty percent of the state’s 3,400 Intensive Care Unit beds are currently occupied, and 25 percent of the state’s 3,000 ventilators are currently in use.
The state is also preparing to order the use of hotels as off-site hospital units, and residence halls at the closed State System schools and other universities are also being considered.
The state is also scrambling to come up with basic medical supplies, and has been searching the supply market for N95 masks in particular. Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine says there are about a million N95 masks being distributed to health care facilities and emergency responders, and is looking for more in anticipation of a surge in new patients in the coming weeks.
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