As the coronavirus continues to tear through the United States, frontline health-care workers are not only in the line of fire, but they are also caught amid growing concern that medical facilities themselves could become hubs for transmission.
are not only in the line of fire, but they are also caught amid growing concern that medical facilities themselves could become hubs for transmission.
The newly renamed Hotel 166, located near the Northwestern University Hospital complex, in a Monday photo. Beyond just the doctors and nurses in medical facilities, overrun and ill-outfitted hospitals as transmission points also threaten other vital services, including security and cleaning personnel. Moreover, the disease has ravished police and firefighting departments nationwide, and scores of EMTs are also grappling with high numbers of diagnoses among the ranks.
"The public can help us by not exposing themselves or others and practicing social distancing," the doctor stressed. Another New York doctor at a large hospital tending to a number of coronavirus patients early last week lamented that they had fast run out of PPE, and had resorted to reusing n95 masks and even brown paper masks. In another New York hospital, a diagnostic sonographer expressed frustration at a mandate not to wear masks because patients had complained that it gave them anxiety, igniting an extra layer of stress for the workers and their families.
And Dr. Josh Luke, a Los Angeles-based hospital CEO – most recently Memorial Hospital of Gardena in Los Angeles County – opined that L.A. county officials and Orange County officials in California have been refusing his help, and has essentially been told, "We are not set up to bring on individuals. We are relying on the health systems to help with pop-up hospitals and overflow isolation hotels.
"Most of the current challenges in our health-care facilities stem from managing the day to day patients that come to our facilities, these patients that have chronic conditions requiring daily treatment such as dialysis, chemotherapy, etc. They don't go away just because there is a coronavirus pandemic," he said.
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