See Which NYC Hospitals Near Capacity Amid Coronavirus Surge

NEW YORK CITY — Many New York City hospitals are swelling close to capacity amid a coronavirus surge that shows no sign of slowing, newly-released federal data shows.

Roughly 11 percent of all hospital beds in the city last week were occupied by COVID-19 patients, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data.

Hospitals over all five boroughs had 71 percent of their beds occupied, whether by COVID-19 patients or those with other maladies, the data compiled by University of Minnesota's COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project shows.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently decreed that if data shows a region is three weeks from hitting 90 percent of hospital capacity, then it enters a "red zone" that closes all but essential businesses.

"No region is at that point now," he said Monday, although he warned hospitalization trajectories across the state are trending upward.

The federal data provides a picture of 41 hospitals in New York City between Dec. 4 and 10.

Staten Island University Hospital had the biggest percentage of COVID-19 patients in its bed at 32 percent.

Two hospitals in Staten Island, which lately has seen the lion's share of COVID-19 cases in the city, led the other boroughs in terms of percentage of patients with the virus:

• Staten Island — 22 percent
• Queens — 10 percent
• Brooklyn — 9 percent
• Manhattan — 8 percent
• Bronx — 7 percent

Experts say if the percentage of COVID-19 patients occupying beds tips above 10 percent then it's a cause for concern, according to a recent NPR story.

See where hospitalizations stood in New York City over last week: