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The collapse of ICUs in much of Spain is expected imminent this week due to data on infections that continue to grow and the accumulation of cases in the intensive care units themselves, while the patients who enter one of them remain there more than 20 days, forming a traffic jam in the access to ICU beds and ventilators that has been spreading from the Community of Madrid to the rest of the autonomous regions.

Although the Government has affirmed on several occasions that the transfer of ICU patients from some specially collapsed autonomies to others less congested is being studied, the autonomies deny for the moment that there have been formal conversations to organize the autonomic ICUs, as they demand the doctors, as if it were one. Castilla-La Mancha acknowledged yesterday having come to ask Murcia about their ICU capacity and occupation, given the increasing number of cases in the La Mancha community, but finally did not transfer any patient to Murcia .

In a context of growing tension over the occupation of ICUs, the ministerial data confirm that there are already 5,872 patients who have required admission to intensive care, led by Catalonia (1,769 patients in ICU), Madrid (1,514), Castilla-La Mancha ( 353) and Castilla y León (345).

The head of the Area of ​​the Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies , María José Sierra , who has replaced Fernando Simón as the visible face of the epidemic after testing positive, explained at a press conference that "the increase in cases since yesterday is 8%, which means that we are still in a stabilization phase of the epidemic. In fact, if we only analyze the hospitalized cases that are the ones that help us see the effectiveness of the measures, the percentage is actually even lower, and this helps to value very positively the measures of social distancing that are being taken. Our main objective is still the patients admitted to the ICU ".

Regarding the global increase in cases, Sierra explained that it falls within the expected range , because these are cases of people infected two weeks ago. Sierra has also highlighted that discharges already represent 22% of reported cases.

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