In March, he said, the number of hospitalized patients doubled every three days. The problems are even greater in Spain, where more than 11,000 people are hospitalized with the virus, nearly 4,000 of them in Madrid. Coronavirus patients fill 25 percent of the available beds in Madrid and hospitals still have spare I.C.U. capacity — a far cry from last spring, when they were so overcrowded that patients were forced to sleep in corridors. But doctors said the influx of patients was crippling primary-care services because the hospitals have had to divert so many of their resources to deal with the virus.

Source: New York Times September 24, 2020 09:54 UTC