Napa County has reached their intensive care unit bed capacity as COVID-19 cases surge around the world and in the Bay Area.
Napa is the first county in the state to hit this grim milestone in this latest surge of new coronavirus infections.
There are 18 total ICU beds, split between two hospitals, in the county. Now that they're at capacity, patients are being transferred to neighboring hospitals in Sonoma and Solano counties.
A number of the patients filling up Napa's hospitals are reportedly unvaccinated.
Hospitals throughout the Bay Area are also struggling as more healthcare workers are becoming infected with omicron.
Napa is struggling with a more diminished ICU capacity now than in previous months, and California has waived a state guideline mandating nurses be responsible for two patients in the unit at once, according to reporting by KTVU.
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