93-thousand. That is the number of District residents projected to be infected with the coronavirus throughout the course of the outbreak. At the peak of pandemic, Bowser said it is expected that the District will need 3,000 acute-care beds and about 2,800 ICU beds. There are currently about 25-hundred total beds in the city’s seven major hospitals. Bowser said a peak in cases and hospitalizations is expected “somewhere around the end of June and beginning of July.”
COVID-19 Cases Expected To Reach Near 100,000 In DC
The District estimates that near 100-thousand residents will be infected by coronavirus.
