Coronavirus hospitalizations are expanding in 37 states and rural hospitals are most affected by the fall outbreak. Upland Hills Health in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, has 3 beds in UCI. Doctors say for the first time that they can’t move patients to larger hospitals.
“There have been conditions where they have been told, “Well, we don’t have extensive care beds available, so you’ll have to keep caring for this patient,” dr. Sarah Fox to CBS News.
Near Medison a few weeks ago, Dr. Alexandra Wick had no coronavirus patients at university hospital, now all her patients have COVID-19.
“I feel like we’re on the edge right now to overwhelm the health care system,” said Wick, who added that a patient had COVID-19 reinfection after having it a month ago.
Rural areas and medium-sized cities accounted for 20% of the first 100,000 that died of coronavirus, according to NPR reports, and accounted for nearly a portion of the 100,000 most sensitive. Rural states now lead the country in terms of hospitalizations consistent with capita in COVID-19. In at least 4 Midwest states (South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho, and Wisconsin), an alarming 20% of recent tests are positive.
At a nursing home in Norton, Kansas, all 62 citizens were inflamed and 10 of them died. In South Dakota, with the highest COVID-19 positivity rate in the country at 37%, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken had this message: “Wear a shit mask when you’re inside. “
Worldwide, more than 40. 6 million cases of coronavirus have been reported, with more than 1. 1 million deaths, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University. The United States has recorded more than 8 million cases, with more than 220,000 deaths.