Hospitals Could Be Overrun With Swine Flu Patients
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There would not be enough of these to go around should the state be overrun with H1N1, a new study says.
If the Swine Flu hit hard across the U.S., Connecticut could be in trouble. That's the finding of a new study from a health advocacy group.
Trust for America's Health released the report, that finds 15 states, including Connecticut, could run out of available hospital beds during the peak of an H1N1flu outbreak.
The study says that if a Swine Flu pandemic occurred, with 35 percent of Americans getting sick, Connecticut would see 17,305 patients who need to be hospitalized. That would mean 148 percent of the state's hospital beds would be filled at the height of the outbreak or, to put it plainly, there won't be enough beds. Only Delaware would be in worse shape.
And there's more bad news in the report. If 35 percent of the population gets sick from the H1N1 virus, that would mean 1,225,438 people falling ill in Connecticut, which could put a huge strain on the state's health system.
Posted Friday, Oct 2, 2009 - 1:02 PM EST
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