Even higher than China and Italy.
The United States has 143,055 cases of the coronavirus. As of March 30, this is the highest in the world, eclipsing even the numbers in China, where the disease started.
Day by the day the numbers piled up and sent hospitals in the country scrambling to keep up with the number of patients being rushed for checking and treatment. So far the epicenter is New York, where more than half of the country’s cases have been reported.
Hospital workers are exhausted and are resorting to desperate measures to fight the coronavirus.
Caring for so many patients at critical levels is taking its toll on the health care workers. A registered nurse, who refuses to be named, described her experience at a Long Island hospital.
“I haven’t slept because my mind won’t shut off. I cried in the bathroom on my break, as I peeled off the PPE from my sweaty self, mask indentations on my face. I cried the entire ride home,” the nurse said in a social media post.
According to the nurse, patients were coming in continuously with “non stop coughing, sweaty, fevers” and with “fear in their eyes.”
Health officials predict that Illinois and Michigan could be the next epicenters of the virus. They are concerned that counties like Cook County, Illinois, and Wayne County, Michigan, are showing “more rapid increase” in cases, according to Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator.
She noted that “40% of the country has ‘extraordinary low rates’ of coronavirus.” Around 19 states have less than 200 cases, she added.
As cases continue to rise, more hospitals are expected to run out of beds within two weeks. Former Louisiana Secretary of Health Dr. Rebekah Gee said that if more beds don’t become available, then they don’t have the resources to save lives.
Health care workers have been punching holes in plastic office report covers to use as makeshift protective masks.
Gee said more ventilators are urgently needed and that the federal government “needs to step in and fix” it.
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