The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 113 countries (up 7 from yesterday) and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan).
As of March 10, 2020 at 00:15 GMT, there have been 624 confirmed cases (up 86 from yesterday) and 26 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
Italy's health system at limit in virus-struck Lombardy
The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors out of retirement and accelerate graduation dates for nursing students.
USA: Some Hospitals Are Close to Running Out of Crucial Masks for Coronavirus
As hospitals around the country prepare for an influx of highly infectious coronavirus cases, their supplies of a crucial type of respirator mask are dwindling fast.
Coronavirus pandemic would swamp California hospitals. Are there enough ventilators, masks?
...Emergency rooms would likely be swamped, overflowing into “surge tents” outside. Intensive care units might fill to capacity. Test kits and masks could run low. And medical personnel would almost certainly get overwhelmed.
A coronavirus pandemic would strain California’s ability to quickly and effectively contain the disease. Although the state has confirmed less than 100 cases and a single death from COVID-19, experts are worried the state’s health care system couldn’t keep up...
The median wait time at California emergency rooms was more than five hours in 2018 for those who were admitted to the hospitals, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The wait time was about half as long for those who were treated and released without admission.
Hospitals, nationwide, also “routinely operate at or near full capacity and have limited ability to rapidly increase services,” according to a report on COVID-19 last month by doctors at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security. “There are currently shortages of healthcare workers of all kinds. Emergency departments are overcrowded and often have to divert patients to other hospitals...”
As of March 10, 2020 at 00:15 GMT, there have been 624 confirmed cases (up 86 from yesterday) and 26 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
Italy's health system at limit in virus-struck Lombardy
The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors out of retirement and accelerate graduation dates for nursing students.
USA: Some Hospitals Are Close to Running Out of Crucial Masks for Coronavirus
As hospitals around the country prepare for an influx of highly infectious coronavirus cases, their supplies of a crucial type of respirator mask are dwindling fast.
Coronavirus pandemic would swamp California hospitals. Are there enough ventilators, masks?
...Emergency rooms would likely be swamped, overflowing into “surge tents” outside. Intensive care units might fill to capacity. Test kits and masks could run low. And medical personnel would almost certainly get overwhelmed.
A coronavirus pandemic would strain California’s ability to quickly and effectively contain the disease. Although the state has confirmed less than 100 cases and a single death from COVID-19, experts are worried the state’s health care system couldn’t keep up...
Hospitals already at capacity
As it is, the coronavirus scare comes at a difficult time for the state’s 370 general acute care hospitals.The median wait time at California emergency rooms was more than five hours in 2018 for those who were admitted to the hospitals, according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The wait time was about half as long for those who were treated and released without admission.
Hospitals, nationwide, also “routinely operate at or near full capacity and have limited ability to rapidly increase services,” according to a report on COVID-19 last month by doctors at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security. “There are currently shortages of healthcare workers of all kinds. Emergency departments are overcrowded and often have to divert patients to other hospitals...”
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