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We have 1 full COVID floor, one mostly filled COVID floor, a 75% filled ICU with 90% of those patients vented, and lately have been seeing 4-6 deaths per day. Elective surgeries are cancelled, so those working on non-COVID floors and periop areas are shadowing/training in ICU as predictions say we haven't even come close to the worst of it.
I don't work in the hospital setting so I can only attest to what my nurse friends who do work in the local hospitals are saying.
There are five inpatient hospitals within a 30 mile radius here. Three small ones and then there are two major hospital/trauma centers. All are at lower than normal census. The two bigger hospitals are really feeling the hit as all elective procedures that normally are transferred to them have been cancelled. Units like IR and surgical services have minimal staff now that only emergent services are being performed. Units like med-surg and ortho have staff tripping over each other. Not sure about Intensive Care units as I don't know anybody working in those areas but I do know that ER visits are way down in numbers.
Fortunately I live in an area that hasn't seen any confirmed positive cases, at least not yet.
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