Hospital overcrowding accounted for roughly 20% of COVID-19 deaths even when vaccines and other therapeutics became available, highlighting the importance of managing case surges during public health crises, according to an expert.
Maniraj Neupane, MD, PhD, a critical care medicine specialist and pulmonologist at Prairie Center Internal Medicine & Nephrology, and colleagues recently published a retrospective cohort study in Annals of Internal Medicine in which they evaluated the effect of hospital overcrowding as cases surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In their analysis of 620 U.S.