In my opinion, the hospitals around the region have displayed an outstanding response to the crisis. However, we already have days in which every intensive care unit bed in the region is full, days in which a specific hospital might have used up all their ventilators. Our hospitals have been very agile in creating more capacity, canceling elective surgeries, and opening new intensive care unit wings. However, we are all very concerned about how the health care system will hold up if we see an exponential growth in transmission.
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ACEP Now: Vol 39 – No 04 – April 2020
Dr. Yore is a Past President of the Washington chapter of the ACEP and a practicing emergency physician at North Sound Emergency Medicine in Everett, Washington.
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