At 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, June 30, Washington state officially reopened. So what does that mean? For many, it’s a major mental milestone after such a long period of restrictions, lockdowns, ...

The current available capacity of intensive care unit beds in Southern California has dropped to 0%. NPR discusses what that means and what might happen next. There are lots of big, horrifying numbers ...

HOUSTON — A hospital’s surge capacity is its ability to expand the number of intensive care beds in a crisis. There are different types of surge capacity: sustainable surge and emergency surge.

For 20 hours Wednesday, the delta variant put the University of Cincinnati Medical Center at capacity, and word went out to the emergency responders and other regional hospitals that UCMC had to limit ...