Covid Continues To Seriously Strain The Nation’s Hospitals.
Hospitals are dealing with the continued strain of treating Covid-19 patients. (APNews.com)
“Straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients, hundreds of the nation’s intensive care units are running out of space and supplies and competing to hire temporary traveling nurses at soaring rates. Many of the facilities are clustered in the South and West.
An Associated Press analysis of federal hospital data shows that since November, the share of U.S. hospitals nearing the breaking point has doubled. More than 40% of Americans now live in areas running out of ICU space, with only 15% of beds still available.”
Covid is still here and not going anywhere anytime soon much to the great despair of an exhausted nation ready to move on. Unfortunately, we have been asleep at the wheel since the pandemic began with no national response mobilized to combat the virus. That means the disease has enjoyed a 10 month head start to spread nationwide and infect people in every community from coast to coast. The vaccine mobilization effort has been paltry with relatively few shots in the arms of Americans. The good news is that it can only (probably) get better from here.
