Federal officials do publish data on hospitals, but the latest data is from the week ending Dec. 30. Of 24 Chicago hospitals reporting data on their intensive care units, which treat the sickest patients, five said they were nearly or completely full: Roseland, Mount Sinai, Holy Cross, St. Bernard and South Shore. Several others reported less than 20% of ICU beds available, a state metric signaling a stressed facility. It’s unclear how well the data is vetted, with some busy hospitals showing zero ICU patients, a near impossibility.
