What the region’s hospitals are seeing as COVID-19 roars back

Citing statistical models, Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine said Monday the state could run out of ICU beds within a week. One of those models, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, estimates that will happen next Monday, Nov. 30, in Pennsylvania, and in late December in New Jersey and Delaware. The models have been right so far, according to Tony Reed, executive vice president and chief medical officer for Temple University Health System and Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. He said the number of COVID-19 cases at Temple Health has been increasing at about the same rate as the surge in March and April. To read the full story.