Unvaccinated Epidemic Burdens Busy American Hospitals
The coronavirus hit again in the United States due to which it is creating pressure on hospitals when some of them are trying to do surgeries and other cancer procedures that they put on hold because of the pandemic. Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that the highly contagious delta variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly, so the cases in the country are up around seventy percent over the last week. Additionally, the hospital admissions climbed around thirty-six percent, and deaths rose by twenty-six percent.
CDC Director Walensky said, “This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” In other words, it’s the MAGA Republican pandemic. They choose to deny science, facts and cling to crazy conspiracy theories and lies bc they’re in a cult. It’s a serious fucking problem. Who agrees?
Some U.S. hospitals are reporting record or near-record patient volumes. Health officials said that even those people who are not contracted with this round of pandemics are proving more challenging for the administration in some ways. The American College of Emergency Physicians president, Dr. Mark Rosenberg, said that he really thinks of it as a war and how many times someone wants to go back for another round of duty. Ultimately, anybody does not want to do it.
Furthermore, according to health care leaders, several hospitals were busy even before the surge started, dealing with a backlog of operations, cancer screenings, and other procedures that hospital authorities paused during the winter surge of the virus to free up staff members and space. Dr. James Lawler of the Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha said that ultimately you have to pay the piper.
Some Hospitals Might Once gain Postpone non-COVID-19 Care
But after the recent surge in the cases, it is a fear in some hospitals that they may need to delay non-coronavirus care again – and risk the possible health consequences for patients. A senior VP for prevention and early detection for the American Cancer Society, Dr. Laura Makaroff, said that cancer screening plunge during the COVID-19 pandemic and still has to return to normal levels in several communities. Laura warned that delays in screening could bring the detection of cancers at more advanced stages of the disease, which is itself very dangerous for many lives.
Unvaccinated Epidemic Burdens Busy American Hospitals Source: Web
Newly confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths across the United States are still dramatically less than they were during the winter. However, since then, the cases are rising for the first time in all fifty states of the country. On the other side, the vaccination drive of the U.S. slowed to crawl, with only around forty-eight percent of the population fully vaccinated. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC Director, warned that the virus outbreak in the country is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated because almost all admissions in the hospital and deaths are among those who still not received vaccination dose.
What’s clear: This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.#COVID19 cases are in areas w/ low vaccination bc unvaccinated ppl are at risk.
Communities fully vaccinated are protected bc vaccines work.
Get fully vaccinated, both doses of 2 dose vaccines https://t.co/bfOV5VzBpqhttps://t.co/MXu7vNJW36
— Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) July 16, 2021
Which is the most overwhelmed area of new cases in the United States?
Cox South and Mercy Springfield experienced a sevenfold surge in COVID-19 cases since late May, with Mercy treating coronavirus-high numbers, and Cox expected to beat its own record next week. Springfield, Missouri, is one of the most overwhelmed areas of the U.S., where public health administration requested the state this week to convert a hotel, dormitory, or other large spaces to the care center of less seriously ill coronavirus patients so that the two hospitals of the city focus on the sickest.
UF Health Jacksonville, the teaching hospital in Florida, is talking about setting up tents in the parking area to help with the excess after the number of coronavirus in-patients doubled to seventy-seven during the last some weeks. The director of infection prevention, Chad Neilsen, said that the hospital expects to exceed its January high of one hundred and twenty-five pandemic in-patients in the next few weeks. Neilsen further said that before the rise, the hospital started a push to recall patients who had delayed care amid the outbreak.
