Changes

A first indicator depicting the changes that took place in hospitals was the increased availability of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds, which is shown by regions on the map ''[[:File:Evolution of ICU beds during the first wave of the pandemic|Evolution of ICU beds during the first wave of the pandemic]]''. There were 150% more ICU beds (excluding newborns) towards the beginning of April 2020 than in January 2020 in the public and private healthcare systems –including both beds with and without ventilators–respirators–. After the peak of the first wave of the pandemic, a decrease was registered in early June; even so, there were 78% more ICU beds occupied at the end of the first semester of 2020 than at the beginning of the year.