Emergency Physician Dr. According to Liana Wayne, what will happen next is the worst situation in the country, in terms of death counts in potential hospitals.
“There’s a lot of viruses in our communities right now,” he said.
It is a horrible reality that is already reflected in numbers. The last two days have seen more than 200,000 new cases each. And as the number of infections increases, U.S. Adding one million cases to its total every six days for the past three weeks.
And for the second day in a row, the U.S. More than 2,800 Kovid-19s were killed in the year – a record-breaking record set a day earlier in the country.
Health care systems under stress
Leading health officials have long warned that the rising number of cases could lead to higher hospital admissions that could cripple health care systems across the country. Hospitals and specialists across the US are now sounding the alarm.
Marvin O’Keefe, president and chief operating officer of Commonwealth Health, which operates hospitals in 21 states, told CNN that they are seeing an increase in patients in each hospital.
“We now have about 2,100 positive cases in our hospitals. That’s an increase of about 70% since November 11,” O’Keefe said. “We’re seeing about 70 to 100 new cases every day.”
In Pennsylvania, only under 1,000 people have been hospitalized in Covid-119, and two parts of the state are approaching staff shortages, according to Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said Thursday.
“It’s so important to remember that we all have to be mindful, that we all have a role to play in what’s happening in hospitals right now,” Levine said. “You don’t need hospital care right now; you don’t have a loved one in the hospital right now. But what happens in our hospitals has a direct effect on you. The steps you take have a direct effect on the spread of the virus. For. “
“People who operate our healthcare system depend on you to do the right thing,” he continued.
In Ohio, Governor Mike Dewey warned that hospitals are not only in crisis, but also that “the crisis is getting worse and worse.”
Dr. of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Andy Thomas, told reporters that a third of ICU patients across the state are Covid-19 positive. Thomas added that in some rural hospitals, Covid-19 patients make up about 60% of the ICU population.
“It’s not sustainable to be able to run hospitals,” he said. “The most difficult area for hospitals to increase their capacity or increase the number of beds is in the intensive care unit.”
Hospitals nationwide have yet to see the impact that Thanksgiving gatherings and travel can bring – with another assumption that will begin to take shape in the coming weeks.
“In fact, when the house feels like a fire, we’ve crossed our case cliff and the hospitals have basically moved on literally,” I do instead and try to avoid future cases. “We are against this,” he said.
New strict measures
Estimates show that four of those five regions will reach that threshold in the coming days, with only two areas expected to remain open in mid-December, Newsme said.
“We are at a tipping point in the fight against the virus and now we need to take decisive action to prevent California’s hospital system from overflowing next week,” he said.
Meanwhile, the lockdown on Nawaz Nation, which ends this weekend, will now be extended for another three weeks.
“Our healthcare experts are now saying that the current wave or surge is much more intense and difficult than the wave we saw in April and May,” President Jonathan Nez said in a written statement on Thursday.
Under the lockdown, Navajo citizens are required to stay at home at all times except for necessary activities, emergencies and outdoor exercises.
Governors expect the first vaccine dose to come soon
Meanwhile, local and state leaders have begun to anticipate when the first batch of their vaccines will arrive. Emergency use of any vaccine has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday that the city expects to receive the first round of the Covid-19 vaccine in about 12 days. The initial dose will come from Pfizer and about a week later, the city will be vaccinated from Moderna, de Blasio said.
The priority will be to vaccinate high-risk health care workers and workers and residents of nursing homes, the mayor said.
“Over time, there will be enough vaccines for everyone,” de Blasio said, but for now, the city is working on “the fastest effective delivery.”
In New Hampshire, the governor announced that the state expects to receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in the third week of December, coming in the week following the Modre vaccine.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he expects about 300,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the month. Health care workers and long-term care facility residents and employees are “moving very close to the top of this list” for the first dose, Baker said, as the state prepares to officially launch its distribution plan on Friday. .
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azare said Thursday that states can use those recommendations and that the advice of other experts comes with the best allocation plans for their residents, depending on their own circumstances.
What are the challenges ahead
Once the green light is received, health officials are constantly working to determine how the vaccine can best be distributed to different communities.
“There’s a big difference between a loading dock and a person’s hand,” said Rick Bright, a member of Biden’s Transition Covid-19 advisory board. “We are looking very closely at the complex route between preparing a vaccine and delivering and administering that vaccine.
“We understand that there is still a lot of work to be done at the local level, at the state level and at the tribal and region level to ensure that they can administer the vaccines somewhere.” Trained to be able to, ”he said.
Furthermore, he said, work is still being done to ensure that there are messengers in every community that tell residents “in every language that it is necessary to make sure people understand the value of the vaccine and trust the vaccine.” And line up for the vaccine. “
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“In some of our most severely affected communities, we know there is a great degree of vaccine hesitation and caution,” he told NBC News.
“All we have to do is find out what people’s questions are,” he said. “At the same time, we have to acknowledge that trust between Americans and the federal government has deteriorated and that it will work to rebuild and restore confidence.”
CNN’s Andre Diaz, Taylor Romin, Andy Rose, Cherry Mossberg, Rebecca Rise, Ganesh Setti, Shelby Lynn Erdman, Sahar Akbarzai, John Pasantino and Ivan Simko-Bednarsky contributed to the report.
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