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How to check the capacity at your local hospital

Grady Memorial emergency entrance Grady Memorial Hospital medical director Dr. Robert Jansen has for months been warning if people did not avoid gatherings dark days were ahead. (WSBTV.com News Staff)

ATLANTA — As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads across Georgia, metro Atlanta hospitals are filling up.

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Though cases, fueled by the highly-contagious delta variant, have dropped, hospital ICUs across Georgia are still hovering around 90% capacity.

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The Georgia Coordinating Center tracks how busy hospitals across the state are.

Since late July several major metro Atlanta hospitals have periodically been on diversion and unable to accept ambulances. A few were also on total ICU diversion and were not accepting new critical patients.

Several emergency departments were listed as “severely crowded.”

To see how crowded your local hospital is, click HERE.

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