Despite recent increases in US vaccination rates and a slight decrease in reported cases in some of the hardest hit states, the recent COVID-19 surge has brought some hospitals back to where they were when the pandemic started – and for the crucial one Oxygen strapped. Hospitals in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Augusta, Georgia; and Lexington, Kentucky, … Read more
Dr. Abhishek Patel, who works in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit, walked in and out of a room where a 6-month-old and a 2-month-old child were battling severe Covid-19 infections and breathing with the help of supplemental oxygen. This week alone, he said, two teenagers with other underlying health problems succumbed to the virus. … Read more
Children’s hospitals fill with coronavirus patients as schools begin to open amid the recent surge in infections fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant. Children’s hospitals in Tennessee will be full by the end of this week, the state health department predicted, and the number of children admitted to a children’s hospital in Jacksonville, Florida … Read more
It’s worse for those who have Covid-19 or are being tested for Covid-19. These patients are still prohibited from receiving visitors unless they are at the end of their lives. And even then, we have to negotiate to get more than two people into the room at the same time. “Who am I to decide … Read more
A hospital system manages the distribution of patients in its hospitals in an arrangement that arose out of an insane struggle to move patients when COVID-19 struck. (March 11)