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Experts are already talking about the third wave of the Covid-19 epidemic in the United States. The catastrophic peaks of mid-April and early August were followed by temporary relief, followed by another black soup: the number of cases, the number of patients needing hospitalization and intensive care, and the number of people needing mechanical ventilation are increasing. . However, the current situation differs from the previous one for two reasons. On the one hand
now the increase in the number of cases starts from a much higher level, since the epidemic has not passed, only as much alleviated.
So now, not from scratch, but from roughly 30,000 new patients a day, another sharp increase began in early October. The country currently has 77,000 illnesses a day. Consequently, the University of Washington has been approx. He predicts 400,000 Covid deaths by February 1.
Another new phenomenon is that so far there has been an enormous dispersion between different areas of a country the size of a continent. The epidemic first developed on the West Coast near Seattle in early March, then the hotspots migrated to New York state and then the Midwest region.
HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF INFECTIONS IS INCREASING TO ALWAYS OF JOY IN PRACTICALLY ALL THE MEMBER STATES,
and with it the burden on the health system. However, there are huge differences in infrastructure development between regions, so the competition for medical personnel has practically begun.
Recruitment companies try to attract doctors and nurses to their clients with emails and phone calls. Larger healthcare organizations have an advantage, for example Banner Health, which operates 29 hospitals in 6 states, can reallocate its own resources, or did so until it became a concern in all of its hospitals.
Doctors and nurses are trying to persuade them to work overtime and extra shifts on a voluntary basis. Employers have introduced special programs to protect the mental and mental health of health workers. In the United States, with more or less variations at the present time at the national level, we can speak of an infection rate of approximately 1.2, which means that every 10 infected causes an additional 12 infections, which leads to a rapid increase in the number of cases. In the United States, similar to national recommendations, the importance of flu vaccination is also emphasized, and many employers have made the vaccine mandatory for their employees.
THE AMERICAN RECOMMENDATIONS ALSO INCLUDE SIMULTANEOUS TESTING OF PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED INFECTIOUS COVIDRA AND INFLUENZA, WHERE THERE ARE OVERLAPPING SYMPTOMS OF THE TWO DISEASES.
Covid-19 vaccines are also being tested in the country,
To date, tens of thousands have received vaccines from various domestic and foreign developments as part of third-phase clinical trials. Two of them so far have had to be temporarily suspended due to the occurrence of unexpected events, but later both studies were restarted because the detected diseases were not caused by the vaccines, according to the monitoring committees of the trial. The most optimistic forecasts suggest that the first vaccines made in the United States and Europe could be widely approved this year or early next year. As is well known, Russia has already licensed its own vaccine, but without the third-phase clinical trial required by international practice.
(Cover image: Health workers in Milwaukee on October 12, 2020. Photo: Wisconsin Department of Administration / Reuters)
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