OpenAI reveals 600,000 weekly health queries from hospital deserts as seven in ten come after hours

US users send about 2 million messages per week on health‑insurance topics (anonymized US data).

600,000 of those weekly messages come from people in hospital deserts (nearest hospital ≥30‑minute drive).

Seven in ten health queries come in outside regular office hours.

All figures are based on anonymized US usage data.

These figures refer to health‑insurance messages and health queries in the US.