The Hospital Best-Prepared for CV-19 Is Nearly Overwhelmed - The Atlantic
“In the past 2 weeks, the hospital had to convert an entire building into a COVID-19 tower, from the top down. It now has 10 COVID-19 units, each taking up an entire hospital floor” theatlantic.com/health/archive…
“In the past 2 weeks, the hospital had to convert an entire building into a COVID-19 tower, from the top down. It now has 10 COVID-19 units, each taking up an entire hospital floor” theatlantic.com/health/archive…
“Three of the units provide intensive care to the very sickest people, several of whom die every day. One unit solely provides “comfort care” to COVID-19 patients who are certain to die.”
“We’ve never had to do anything like this,” Angela Hewlett, the infectious-disease specialist who directs the hospital’s COVID-19 team, told me. “We are on an absolutely catastrophic path.”
Here is @edyong209 thread.
The US has over 80k patients hospitalised with COVID.
USA is c x 4.9 times the U.K. that has about 16,400 patients ..the equivalent of 80k in the US. We hit nearly 20k at the Spring peak. ...(about 98k in the US). It is brutal.
The US has over 80k patients hospitalised with COVID.
USA is c x 4.9 times the U.K. that has about 16,400 patients ..the equivalent of 80k in the US. We hit nearly 20k at the Spring peak. ...(about 98k in the US). It is brutal.
https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1329772228188233728
That it should be happening in the Nebraska Medical Centre that specialises in dangerous infectious disease “should shake the nation.” 
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