PANDEMIC STRETCHING PENNSYLVANIA’S HEALTH INDUSTRY RESOURCES

Pennsylvania State health officials say the COVID-19 pandemic is stretching the state’s health-industry resources to the breaking point.  Authorities say a quarter of the state’s hospitals were reporting that they had few and no ICU beds available as of late last week.  That news reportedly comes amid a recent rise in new COVID-related infections and hospitalizations, especially in central and west Pennsylvania.  As of yesterday, more than 46 hundred people in Pennsylvania were hospitalized with the virus.