Or a heart attack comes and is taken to the hospital, just to find out that there is not enough emergency care for you.
“The difference between what is happening now and what is happening is that the virus is now everywhere,” said Dr. Emergency Medicine physician. Said Lena Wayne.
“Before, there were a few hot spots across the country. There were health care workers who could volunteer and go between different states.”
“But when the virus is so widespread, we can run very well … with healthcare workers, which means the patient is suffering care. And we’ll be at a breaking point in our hospitals.”
Recordbreak hospitalized
Health experts say the current onslaught of the collapse of Covid-1 cases is the result of more indoor socialization due to epidemic fatigue, reopening of schools and people spreading public safety precautions.
Across the country, 61,964 patients were hospitalized by Kovid-19 on Tuesday, according to the Kovid tracking project. This is the highest number since the epidemic began.
“We’re already seeing our hospitals in some parts of the country at breaking points. And that means it doesn’t just affect coronavirus patients,” Wayne said.
“It also means that alternative surgeries for things like hip replacement, cancer surgery or in some cases heart surgery are being discontinued.”
And the crisis is expected to get worse. There were 136,325 new Covid-19 cases reported in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
And a large increase in new infections, leading to more hospitalizations and deaths in the following weeks.
“Unfortunately, I think the statement about the ‘new record’ will be repeated,” said Dr. Ashish Zai, dean of Brown University School of Public Health.
“We have more infections now than we certainly have since the onset of the epidemic. And I expect that number to continue to increase. Hospital admissions will continue.”
While hospitals cannot take more patients
In Idaho, some patients may need a hysterectomy or joint replacement.
“We’re not saying alternative action that requires an overnight investment.”
According to the Kohid tracking project, on Monday, Idho was one of the 17 states with the highest number of patients with Kovid-19.
“We have reached a stage where we have not turned to patients but we need to transfer them to one of our sister hospitals in Boise, where they have little capacity,” Kern said about two hours southeast of the Twin Falls.
“Basically when we can get to the place where the hospital is full – which is available based on the capacity of the staff that we have available – then we will not tell any additional patients. Boise must be transported by helicopter or fixed wing plane. ”
Even patients who do not have coronavirus suffer from the epidemic.
“We have a big backlog in hysterectomy … knee replacement, hip replacement – anything that can be stopped,” he said.
“Is it the best? Never. If someone needs spinal surgery or a hysterectomy, whether it’s a demarcation is really optional. But we’re too crushed for the staff, we have to make those decisions.”
The doctor who volunteered at NYC will no longer travel
Dr. Tanmas Diaz, a San Francisco emergency room doctor, spent a month volunteering at a New York hospital during the spring hike.
But now, Diaz is settling in California.
“I’m worried about leaving at a time when I need to be here, at my current home,” Diaz said.
San Francisco is making better progress than many cities – probably because of an early mask order and shelter-arrangement, he said.
But the situation could change at any moment.
Diaz said, “This is an unprecedented time for all of us.
“We are seeing its effects, from the people’s point of view … not being able to get visitors to the hospital, being separated from their loved ones (in the hospital), and even possible death.”
And he also sees young people being hospitalized with Covid-19.
He said, “I have patients who are young – such as in the 30s and 40s, otherwise healthy – who have just been completely knocked out by Covid and need to stay in the hospital with low oxygen saturation.”
When a heart attack patient cannot get quick care
In Utah, hospitals are “really on the verge of not being able to accommodate more people … especially in our intensive care units,” Governor Gary Herbert said.
“We don’t just have rooms with doctors and nurses who can provide health care.”
The hard way that Utah mother Laurie Terry learned. And it doesn’t even have a coronavirus.
Eventually, Terry arrived at the hospital with an opening and the special care she needed. But his sister said his condition had worsened.
6 hours at the nearest available ICU bed
While previous outbreaks occurred in major cities, the Covid-19 case has now spread to rural parts of the country.
Nancy Foster, vice president of quality and patient safety policy at the American Hospital Hospital Association, said the increase is likely to be largely in rural areas as many rural hospitals have less capacity to care for patients and fewer equipment returns.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly said hospital capacity in rural and urban parts of the state is now a major concern.
She recalled a recent example in rural Kearney County, where the nearest available ICU bed was in Kansas City – six hours away from the car.
“We have to work for agility,” the governor said. “We know how to reduce the spread of the virus. We know that masks work.”
Some doctors and nurses with Covid-19 may be employed
In North Dakota, staff shortages are so severe that coronavirus-infected asymptomatic health care workers can work in the Covid-19 unit of medical facilities.
Announcing the change Monday, Gov. Doug Bergham said, “There is a lot of pressure on our hospitals now.”
Such precautions include taking the temperature of the health care worker daily and wearing a face mask.
Retired health care workers are asked to help
U.S. “To address this issue, many nurses are retiring,” said Gerard Brogan, director of nursing practice for National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses.
Like many states, Wisconsin has been plagued with both Covid-19 patients and a highly stressful health care system.
“The number of employees due to illness or quarantine is also a factor in our staff needs,” said Laura Hiebe, chief nursing officer at Belin Health Systems in Green Bay.
So Bailey has asked retired health care workers to return.
“They are helping us with some of our most needy areas such as test sites, follow-up phone calls and data entry. Some have worked in the clinical field, but due to age and other factors, most are not working on the front lines.” She said.
The health care system has re-employed or re-employed more than 200 people, Hibe said. They include retirement as well as “a good number of faculty at Bellin College College Ledge and students assisting in low-level jobs.”
Hiebe said this fall is the main difference between the Covid-1 surge surge and the previous surge: “The number of patients is higher than the last surge.”
Doctors appeal for personal responsibility
For months, Brogan said, Americans have heard that “we should pinch the curve so as not to drown in hospitals.”
Yet here we are again: hospitals are close to or close to capacity, begin to divert patients and delay certain surgeries. Why
“I think it’s pretty simple: people won’t behave themselves,” Brogan said.
“There are a lot of people who believe this is an ‘epidemic’. They don’t believe in science,” he said.
“There is a myth among young people that they can’t get covid. People don’t have social distance. People don’t wear masks. This is a misinformation campaign that exacerbates this epidemic.”
Dr. who is treating Kovid-19 patients in Salt Lake City. Emily Spivak said it was “super frustrating” that so many people wouldn’t take simple steps to help – such as physical distance, wearing a mask and washing hands.
“I don’t see an end. No one is doing anything to stop what is happening.”
“It’s kind of like people just going out and living their lives not realizing they’re emptying our health care system.”
It is not only for their loved ones and colleagues but also for the patients who depend on their care.
A tired nurse working 12-hour shifts sometimes cares for as many patients as they normally would, Brogan said.
“Those who don’t think they will be personally affected by this crisis will not be able to survive,” he said.
“Don’t sink the system. If you don’t have a close relative or a loved one or someone in your neighborhood who suffers from covid, you will stay in the future until you follow these basic public health measures,” Brogan said.
“It’s a little sacrifice now for the greater good of all.”
CNN’s King Razek, Claudia Dominguez, Brian Gingers, Martin Savage, Dan Prozigoda and Konstantin Toropin contributed to the report.
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