Of states reporting relevant data, Texas and California currently have the most COVID-19 patients in intensive care, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Thirty-seven states and Washington, D.C., are reporting current intensive care unit admissions and/or cumulative intensive care admissions. The Atlantic's COVID Tracking Project compiles data directly from the websites of local or state public health authorities. When data is missing from the websites, they supplement available numbers with information from official news conferences. Data was last updated Oct. 26 or Oct. 27, depending on the state.
Becker's has taken this data and ordered the states from highest number of current COVID-19 patients in the ICU to lowest. States reporting cumulative totals are ordered from greatest to least as well.
State populations come from 2019 U.S. Census data.
Editor's note: This is not a comprehensive list. Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming did not report data for either cumulative or current ICU patients.
COVID-19 patients currently in ICU
Texas: 1,601
State population: 28,995,881
California: 774
State population: 39,512,223
Illinois: 595
State population: 12,671,821
Indiana: 494
State population: 6,732,219
Missouri: 449
State population: 6,137,428
Ohio: 418
State population: 11,689,100
Tennessee: 393
State population: 6,829,174
Wisconsin: 339
State population: 5,822,434
North Carolina: 329
State population: 10,488,084
Michigan: 320
State population: 9,986,857
Oklahoma: 286
State population: 3,956,971
Kentucky: 233
State population: 4,467,673
New York: 233
State population: 19,453,561
Arkansas: 232
State population: 3,017,804
Virginia: 230
State population: 8,535,519
South Carolina: 188
State population: 5,148,714
Arizona: 187
State population: 7,278,717
New Jersey: 182
State population: 8,882,190
Minnesota: 165
State population: 5,639,632
Mississippi: 159
State population: 2,976,149
Nevada: 144
State population: 3,080,156
Iowa: 128
State population: 3,155,070
Utah: 111
State population: 3,205,958
Massachusetts: 109
State population: 6,892,503
Maryland: 105
State population: 6,045,680
Kansas: 103
State population: 2,913,314
Idaho: 75
State population: 1,787,065
West Virginia: 74
State population: 1,792,147
Oregon: 61
State population: 4,217,737
North Dakota: 37
State population: 762,062
Washington, D.C.: 26
Area population: 705,749
Delaware: 20
State population: 973,764
Hawaii: 15
State population: 1,415,872
Rhode Island: 14
State population: 1,059,361
Maine: 5
State population: 1,344,212
Cumulative recorded number of COVID-19 patients in ICU
Georgia cumulative: 5,859
State population: 10,617,423
Ohio cumulative: 3,771
State population: 11,689,100
Indiana cumulative: 3,135
State population: 6,732,219
Minnesota cumulative: 2,589
State population: 5,639,632
Alabama cumulative: 2,035
State population: 4,903,185
Kentucky cumulative: 1,694
State population: 4,467,673
Wisconsin cumulative: 1,442
State population: 5,822,434
Utah cumulative: 1,083
State population: 3,205,958
Kansas cumulative: 1,009
State population: 2,913,314
Idaho cumulative: 539
State population: 1,787,065
North Dakota cumulative: 297
State population: 762,062
New Hampshire cumulative: 248
State population: 1,359,711
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