mv region lowest available icu beds

Available hospital and icu beds continues to shrink....to alarming numbers.

Our mohawk valley region has achieved a disturbing distinction regarding icu beds.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris reports.

Out of all the regions in new york state, ours, the mohawk valley region, has the smallest percentage of icu beds available, at 23% :34 "so, it is, it's very concerning" it's an even more alarming number, specifically, in otsego county .

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None :38 "in know in our hospitals in otsego county today we have 10% of our icu beds available, and when you only have 30 beds, it's not a lot" that's three icu beds available in otsego county, out of 30 total icu beds, at bassett hospital; fox hospital doesn't even have an icu.

:50 "it worries me about people that need critical care for things other than covid...coronary, heart attacks, strokes, accidents" transfering patients, if need be, to another hospital in the region, is an option, but not the most appealing one 1:30 "for us the nearest hospital to transfer to would be albany, syracuse.

If we stay within our region, utica, rome, it's still 45 minutes to an hour and a half each way to needing to transfer somebody" the good news- there could be a little wiggle room in these numbers 13:08 "i believe those numbers being shown don't have their surge numbers in all of them in well ,so it doesn't include what they could surge to" equally as disturbing to health department officials - the fact that we know how to stop, or at least slow, the spread of the virus.....yet it's still spreading, and faster than ever 6:07 "we seem to be, as a society, not putting our personal responsibility into it, which is disheartening when we're working sevenays aeek trying stem thi 6:27 "a health> going county by county with the