Covid 19 coronavirus: overwhelmed American hospital treating Covid patients in parking lot

A US hospital stretched to breaking point by the Covid-19 crisis has resorted to treating sick patients in a parking lot, demonstrating the severity of the emergency.

So far, the United States has recorded 15,089,621 virus cases and 285,643 deaths, far worse than those seen in heavily affected developing countries like India and Brazil.

There has been a 24 percent increase in new cases across the United States in the last week alone, and the average number of daily deaths has shot to 2,200.

But a series of viral photos from the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, has really revealed the scale of the disaster, after the hospital was forced to convert two floors of its parking lot into a makeshift treatment site to keep up with the influx. of Covid patients.

A photo of the makeshift facility was first shared on Twitter by ICU physician Jacob Keeperman in November, when he revealed that there had been “five deaths in the last 32 hours.”

The post went viral, but unsurprisingly, some accused the photo of being false, and US President Donald Trump himself retweeted one of those accusations.

Dr. Keeperman later told CNN that he was “disgusted” by the false accusation shared by Trump and urged government officials and all Americans to take the “humanitarian crisis” seriously.

“Things are difficult. People are sick. People from all walks of life, of all ages, are being affected by Covid-19,” he said.

“We are approaching a breaking point.”

In fact, in the past three weeks, the site has treated 265 patients as cases continue to rise in the wake of the Thanksgiving holiday, and new research from CBS News has also revealed the extent of the “way crisis “of the hospital, like having a series of new photos taken inside the center.

“No one who has ever been in medicine thought they would be providing care in a parking lot,” Keeperman told CBS this week.

“Would any hospital want to show they are operating from a parking lot if it weren’t real? People’s loved ones die every day.”

And nursing manager Janet Baum also told CBS that she has never seen anything like the current devastation before.

“Never in my wildest nightmares would I have thought that we would ever see something that would kill so many people,” he said.

While the Renown facility may seem like an extreme example, experts warned that the coronavirus disaster will only get worse in the coming weeks as temperatures plummet and Americans flock over the Christmas and New Years holiday period.

Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonologist and friend of former Alabama State Senator Larry Dixon, who died of the coronavirus last week, told the AP that the next four months would bring “more devastation and catastrophic public health problems” than previously known. had seen since 1918.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci recently warned that the next few weeks will likely bring “an increase upon an increase” in new cases.