How is covid in your area?

[johnjohn1981]

Just wondering how hospitals across the United States are doing with COVID. I haven't  read any articles recently. 

My hospital currently has very few active covers. It's a major city in an area that was hit hard this Summer. 

[johnjohn1981, LPN, RN, EMT-I]

Interesting. 
I went to my hometown in El Paso, Texas and they are having a major major surge.

 

I currently live in Los angels, and the city is slowly opening up but gyms and some indoor dining places are still closed. They have been closed for months!! But covid isn’t terrible there despite the big population

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

ABC News 11/3/2020

Virus hospitalizations surge as pandemic shadows US election

Quote

...While daily infections were rising in all but three states, the surge was most pronounced in the Midwest and Southwest.

Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana Nebraska, North Dakota, Colorado and New Mexico all reported record high hospitalizations this week. Nebraska’s largest hospitals started limiting elective surgeries and looked to bring in nurses from other states to cope with the surge. Hospital officials in Iowa and Missouri warned bed capacity could soon be overwhelmed....

 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

I live in Tampa Bay Florida where we are seeing an uptick in the number of cases and the rate of positivity.  The demographic is now younger and healthier people and nursing homes are finally under control, so right now hospitalizations and deaths remain low.  

We had a rough Summer and I hope as it gets colder here in Florida we don't see a repeat.   

The other day we had six covid positive patients.  During our peak in the Summer we had 70 and for a medium hospital that is poorly staffed on a good day, 70 patients was a hardship.  

The good news is we have plenty of PPE

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Given how many unmasked, non-social-distancing Halloween parties were posted on my social media feeds, I despair for what Thanksgiving/Christmas are going to do.