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Original title: The number of deaths in the United States this year or the first to exceed the number of new births. American Doctors Regret That “Darkest Time” Has Come
A few days ago, according to the “Guardian” report, 2020 may turn out to be the deadliest year in the history of the United States. Due to the new corona epidemic, there are more than 3,100 counties in the United States (counties are second-level administrative divisions and the highest administrative divisions below the state). Here, more than half of the deaths will exceed the number of newborns. This is the first time in the history of the United States that this situation has occurred and the average life expectancy will also be reduced by 3 years.
△ Experts say that because the new corona epidemic will reduce average life expectancy, 2020 may become the deadliest year in the United States. (Image source: The Guardian)Under the severe epidemic, the medical resources of America’s major hospitals are already in critical condition and are facing collapse at any moment. American doctors lamented that America’s “darkest moment” has come.
Death toll in the USOr will it be the first timeSuper new population
According to real-time data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, at 6:22 a.m. on December 27 Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new corona in the United States reached 18,918,206, and the cumulative number of deaths was 331,689. In the past 24 hours, there have been 169,577 new confirmed cases and 1,540 new deaths in the United States.
According to Kenneth Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire in the United States, the current epidemic will cause more than half of the counties in the United States to have more deaths than new births this year, which is the first time in the history of the United States. .
△ Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Houston, Texas (Source: The Guardian)According to preliminary estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the 22nd, the death toll in the United States in 2020 will exceed 3.2 million, an increase of at least 400,000 from 2019. Experts The CDC estimates that a large number of additional deaths will reduce the life expectancy of the US population by up to 3 years in 2020.
At present, intensive care units with full capacity and many people waiting in hospitals in the United States interpret the deadly year of 2020.
Serious shortage of medical personnel
The funeral home buys a refrigerator truck again
According to a CNN report on the 25th, according to data from the Los Angeles County, California Department of Public Health, there are currently about 6,500 people in the county hospitalized with new coronary pneumonia, 20% of whom are in the unit of intensive care. In the last week alone, more than 1,600 patients were admitted to the hospital due to new coronary pneumonia. Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrell said Los Angeles County now has 1 person dying of new coronary pneumonia every 10 minutes.
Since the intensive care unit is full, many hospitals in California have to use other locations to treat patients with new coronary pneumonia, and patients keep coming. The hospital and medical staff have long been overwhelmed.
Cliffe, California Hospital Nurse:Exhausted, this is really like an endless “battle”.
Brad Spielberg, Southern California Medical Director, Los Angeles County:They are crushing us, I am not going to whitewash the peace, they are crushing us. For most days of the past week, there were no intensive care beds in the morning.
△ On the 26th local time, the “New York Times” published an article entitled “Why are the Brooklyn warehouses full of 530 bodies?”. (Image source: “New York Times”)Even if medical staff are working at full capacity, death is still inevitable in the face of large numbers of confirmed cases and a hard-to-find intensive care bed.
According to the “New York Times” report on the 26th, a large warehouse in South Brooklyn, New York, was switched to a long-term cold room with a capacity for 1,500 bodies. At present, the warehouse has stored more than 530 bodies and has cremated them in the family of the deceased. Before the remains of family members, these remains must be temporarily stored for several months.
△ The New York Times reported that the U truck used to temporarily move the bodies has become a sign that New York City is deeply affected by the epidemic. (Image source: “New York Times”)At the same time, to cope with the rapid increase in deaths from new coronary pneumonia across the country, other states in the United States have also used and purchased refrigerated trailers to accommodate more bodies. In early November, Texas purchased 10 additional refrigerated trailers and California recently added about 60 refrigerated trailers as temporary morgue. The number of additional refrigerated trucks purchased in the United States is increasing.
The hospital is like “hell”
The “darkest moment” has come
Earlier this month, Joseph Wallon, medical director of the Houston United Memorial Medical Center, said in an interview: “The next six weeks will be the darkest time in the history of modern American medicine. We are in for a traditional holiday, and the people (Outbreak Prevention Regulations) I can’t listen. “
Tanner Ingraham, Intensive Care Unit Nurse at Houston United Memorial Medical Center:It was like hell, and then he went back to hell again, like we didn’t exist. You know, we are still here to take care of the patients, me, my children and my mother, they are also at risk of infection, I feel like we are forgotten, really.
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