Tough choices loom as ICU beds fill up countywide | Paul Sisson
Tough choices loom as ICU beds fill up countywide | Paul Sisson

Tough choices loom as ICU beds fill up countywide | Paul Sisson

Elsa Majimbo

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<p>A second-straight day with San Diego County’s intensive care beds at 80 percent occupancy prompted questions Wednesday about when crisis measures will be necessary.</p><p>While officials with the county health department made it clear during their regular weekly COVID-19 briefing that we’re not there yet, they also declined to set a firm break point beyond which hospitals will need to begin making decisions about who receives care in a proper room and who must be cared for in a less-than-ideal setting.</p>

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