Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals

[Altruist]

'That's when all hell broke loose': Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals

"We ended up getting our first positive patients -- and that's when all hell broke loose," said one New York City doctor.

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We ended up getting our first positive patients -- and that's when all hell broke loose," said one New York City doctor.

The doctor, who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity out of concern for his job, described a hospital that was woefully unprepared for an influx of Covid-19 patients that started roughly two weeks ago -- which has already stretched the hospital's resources thin and led to severely ill patients outnumbering ventilators.

"We don't have the machines, we don't have the beds," the doctor said.

"To think that we're in New York City and this is happening," he added. "It's like a third-world country type of scenario. It's mind-blowing."

At first, patients skewed toward the 70-plus age group, but in the past week or so there have been a number of patients younger than 50.

"I don't think they understand the severity of this disease," the doctor said of the younger patients.

"Two weeks ago, life was completely different."

 

[Digital_Pakistani]

Today (25 March) is going to be 4th consecutive day when US will have daily 10,000 new cases. God be with all humans. We in Pakistan are far safe.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 136,295,557 Cases and 2,942,490 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...

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Coronavirus Deaths by U.S. State and Country Over Time: Daily Tracker (Published 2020)

Compare the number of deaths and the rate of increase over time in the places the virus has hit hardest so far.

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As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, people are dying around the world. But the trajectories of cases and deaths differ by country.

 

[yankee babu]

Today (26 March) is going to be 4th consecutive day when US will have daily 10,000 new cases. God be with all humans. We in Pakistan are far safe.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 136,295,557 Cases and 2,942,490 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...

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It is because govt. and people do care about each other we still have soft corner for our elders and under previleged

 

[Bilal Raza]

• A healthcare worker in a New York City hospital died from COVID-19 on Tuesday.
• He was working with COVID-19 patients and was diagnosed with the virus almost two weeks ago, according to the New York Post.
• Protective equipment is running low: Healthcare workers in the same hospital system posted photos of themselves on Facebook wearing garbage bags instead of medical scrubs.

A nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York died from COVID-19 after contracting coronavirus almost two weeks ago. Protective medical gowns are in such short supply in the Mount Sinai system that some nurses have started to use "Hefty" brand garbage bags instead, according to photos on social media.

The New York Post reported that Kious Kelly, an assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, died on Tuesday. Kelly was 48 years old.

His sister confirmed his death to The Post, saying she was told he had been in the ICU, but that he did not think it was serious. The Post did not specify how he contracted the virus.

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our nursing staff," Renatt Brodsky, a spokesperson for the Mount Sinai Health System told Business Insider in a statement. Brodsky did not provide any further details.

In the United States, New York state has become the epicenter for the coronavirus outbreak, with more than 33,000 infections and over 360 deaths. In New York and other areas in the US with large outbreaks, healthcare workers are reporting shortages of personal protective equipment, like masks, gowns, face shields, and gloves.

At Mount Sinai West, in the same hospital system where Kelly worked, nurses published a photo on social media showing them fashioning plastic trash bags into protective outfits, according to the Post.

"NO MORE GOWNS IN THE WHOLE HOSPITAL," they wrote on Facebook. "NO MORE MASKS AND REUSING THE DISPOSABLE ONES … NURSES FIGURING IT OUT DURING COVID-19 CRISIS." One nurse is seen holding a box of Hefty "Strong" 33-gallon bags, more commonly used for lining household trash cans.

Nurse dies in New York hospital where workers are reduced to using trash bags as protective medical gear

New York City has been overburdened with coronavirus cases, and healthcare workers face shortages of personal protective equipment to treat patients.

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