France is allowing health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate.

Authorities say a fire at a hospital in Romania’s port city of Constanta has killed seven COVID-19 patients in the ICU.

UF Health officials wrapped up a teleconference with local politicians Tuesday, filling them in on where the city stands with the COVID-19 pandemic, including local cases and how the virus is now affecting children.

Intensive care beds are full of unvaccinated coronavirus patients at a hospital in Boise, Idaho, and doctors are bracing for the need to conserve scarce resources for the patients most likely to survive.

The latest surge in coronavirus cases is overwhelming many of the nation’s intensive care units.

A renewed crush of COVID-19 cases is again forcing intensive care units across France to grapple with the macabre mathematics of how to make space for thousands of critically ill patients.

Nationwide, the number of ICU patients has already eclipsed the levels of France’s last deadly surge i n autumn. Virus patients occupy all 16 regular ICU beds at the main hospital in Amiens, where Macron was born and schooled. See how sharp it is?” he said, pointing to a chart of virus infections and hospitalizations in northern France, including the Amiens region. The French situation echoes the recent experience of Britain, which saw infections surge in December as a more contagious virus variant took hold, before then spreading in France and elsewhere in Europe. AdThe government says it wants to avoid reaching the point where ICU doctors have to turn patients away.

Medical staff meets in a room of a patient affected by COVID-19 virus in the ICU unit at the Ambroise Pare clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, Friday, March 19, 2021. French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced new coronavirus restrictions as the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units spikes. The 26-year-old had been hoping for a full nationwide lockdown to slow the streams of severely ill patients filling ICUs like hers, in the west of Paris. Because Paris apartments are small.”Dr. Anousone Daulasim, coming off a night shift in the ICU unit, said the new measures were “absolutely necessary” to take pressure off medical teams. AdDoctors are hoping the new restrictions will buy more time for France’s vaccination campaign to make additional headway against the virus.

Relatives attend a burial service of a person who died from complications related to COVID-19 at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, March 11, 2021. Ad“We have reached the limit across Brazil; rare are the exceptions,” Dias, who leads the governors’ forum, said. “In the whole country, aggressive use of the public health measures, social measures, will be very, very crucial,” he said. At the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, burials are being done one after another, with mourners and cars lined up awaiting their turn. Associated Press videojournalist Tatiana Pollastri contributed from Sao Paulo.

More than 40% of Americans now live in areas running out of ICU space, with only 15% of beds still available. According to data through Thursday from the COVID Tracking Project, hospitalizations are still high in the West and the South, with over 80,000 current COVID-19 hospital patients in those regions. “Initially, when the COVID surges were hitting one part of the country at a time, traveling nurses were able to go to areas more severely affected. “There’s a lot of these agencies that are out there charging absolutely ridiculous sums of money to get ICU nurses in,” Boom said. Augusta University Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia, is treating adult ICU patients, under age 30, in the children’s hospital.

One of them is Baptist Medical Center Nassau, which had no available ICU space as of Monday evening, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration. By Tuesday afternoon, one ICU bed had become available there, but across Northeast Florida, ICU availability was low. Now, with cases soaring, some medical facilities are preparing to stretch their ICU resources to the limit. And so when it does occur, we’ll be ready.”If a hospital’s ICU space is filled up, Neilsen said, staff will look around for other hospitals in the area that might have available space. Also, larger hospitals can temporarily convert some existing space into an ICU if more is needed.

Ten beds normally used for less severe cases were transformed into intensive care rooms, with extra IV machines brought in. “We’re kind of like a bathtub that’s filling up with water and the drain is blocked,” the hospital’s chief medical officer, Dr. William Smith, said last week. The variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver and has no travel history, state health officials said Tuesday. As of last week, 15 Alabama hospitals had intensive care units that were at or above capacity, and the ICUs at six more hospitals were at least 96% full. On Tuesday, 2,804 people were in Alabama hospitals with COVID-19, the highest total since the pandemic began.

While ICU and COVID-19 wards are not full in the area, the wards are filling up with more patients. It’s the same at UF Health Jacksonville at two hospitals. As more people around the community get tested, we’re getting a better idea of hospitalizations throughout Northeast Florida. At Memorial Hospital, there was an average of 25 COVID-19 patients in that same period with six in ICU. Orange Park Medical Center had 36 patients with seven in ICU while Flagler Hospital had 26 people with COVID-19 with six in the ICU.

In France, more than 7,000 health care workers have undergone training since last spring in intensive care techniques. Italy has a total of 11,000 ICU beds, but only enough anesthesiologists for 5,000 patients, Anelli said. As of Monday, 2,849 ICU beds were filled nationwide — up 100 from just the day before. Dr. Uwe Janssens, who heads Germany’s Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, said some urban areas are reaching precarious levels. Germany has about 34.5 ICU beds per 100,000 inhabitants, not including the emergency reserve.

Europes second wave of coronavirus infections has struck well before flu season even started. Spain this week declared a state of emergency for Madrid amid increasing tensions between local and national authorities over virus containment measures. “I have to say clearly that the situation is not good," the Czech interior minister, Jan Hamacek, acknowledged this week. “We are in the fall wave without having resolved the summer wave,” she told an online forum this week. Half of Campania’s 100 ICU virus beds are now in use.

Doctors are scrambling to create new ICU beds elsewhere to accommodate the sick, and asking what went wrong. It reported more than 18,000 new daily cases Thursday, and virus patients now occupy 1,427 ICU beds nationwide — a figure that has doubled in less than a month. France’s overall ICU capacity is 6,000, roughly the same as in March, according to national health agency figures provided to the AP. Spain was caught short in the spring, and has expanded its permanent ICU capacity by about 1,000 beds. Compared to March and April, doctors say French intensive care wards are better armed this time around, both with protective equipment and more knowledge about how this coronavirus works.

Three additional deaths from the pandemic also were disclosed Friday by state health officials as fatalities from the pandemic surpassed 900. ___RENO, Nev. -- A recent spike in COVID-19 cases at the University of Nevada, Reno is prompting the school to suspend all in-class instruction effective Nov. 30. County officials previously required bars to cut indoor seating occupancy by half, close dance floors and discontinue live performances and entertainment. On Monday, Yellowstone County Health Officer John Felton announced case benchmarks that would lead to county health officials to limit the allowed capacity of bars, restaurants and churches to 25%. The measures include closing gyms and theaters after Ontario registered a record 939 coronavirus cases on Friday.

Healthcare workers assist a COVID-19 patient at one of the intensive care units (ICU) at the University Hospital of Torrejon in Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Still, hospital staff count themselves lucky: Despite having had to add nine intensive care beds to the usual 16, the hospital hasn't had to postpone treatment for any other patients. Hospitals and their workers have been stretched to their limits again in Madrid, where the surging number of COVID-19 patients in September forced an expansion of critical care beds into gymnasiums and surgery rooms. At the peak of the first wave, ICU wards were given over to haste, desperation and even cluelessness about what to do. They have learned, for example, that the sooner patients with respiratory problems are sent into intensive care treatment, the more chances they have of surviving.

The trickle of a few virus patients in March became a steady stream two weeks after Arizona Gov. They stocked up on masks and gowns, and trained professionals who normally work in operating rooms or other areas to care for virus patients. More than 600 ICU beds were filled with virus patients this week, two-thirds of them on ventilators and sedated. Death is ever-present in ICUs, but with virus patients, it is even more common, and often grueling and drawn out. Families of virus patients generally arent allowed bedside visits, leaving it to caregivers to arrange phone calls and FaceTime links via tablet computers.

Its the increase in testing like this that Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said is causing the countys positive number of COVID-19 cases to increase. But with the latest surge, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said most people are not going to the hospital. During a Monday press conference, Curry took issue with reports regarding hospitals and full ICU beds when in fact only a very small number of those beds have COVID-19 patients. Curry said Monday there are 14 patients in ICUs around Jacksonville. So News4Jax did just that, contacting the five major hospitals in Jacksonville.

SEE THE RAW DATA: Hospital ICU Beds Census and Staffed Availability as Reported in ESSCounty by county break downs show in Duval more beds are filled than are available. Of all the countys hospitals, 104 ICU beds are available while 408 are already serving a patient. Notably, at UF Health in Jacksonville, there arent any ICU beds available. St. Johns County also has a lower number of ICU beds with 44 total beds, but 24 are available right now. In Columbia and Alachua Counties, hospital ICU beds are 90% full.