Keckley Report November 16, 2020
There are 6146 hospitals in the United States of which 5198 are classified as community hospitals. They employ 7.8 million including 35% of the nation’s physicians. A fourth are owned by private investors; the rest are private not for profit or public hospitals. All face a dark winter.
The second surge of the pandemic has begun: daily infection rates spiked to 184,515, 68,516 are hospitalized and deaths hit 1431 over the weekend. Public health officials estimate deaths could reach 375,000 by the end of the year, up from 246,224 yesterday. And despite promising news about emergency use authorization for vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, widespread access is unlikely before Spring 2021. That’s where we are.
According to the American Hospital...
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