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This Is Really Happening”: NYC Healthcare Workers Describe Supply And Staff Shortages As COVID-19 Cases Rise
Healthcare workers across New York City are bracing for a surge in COVID-19 patients who need hospital care. But they are already seeing shortages of supplies and staff as their colleagues test positive for the virus, and while patients displaying flu-like symptoms continue to crowd emergency rooms.
My son-in-law works ED at the hospital, way too many people going their panicked,, showing up with sniffles or anxiety. Then, after every time an exam room is used, they have to scrub down the room, takes 2x as long.
Not the Flu
“You hear a lot about old people—oh, it’s only old people,” the nurse said. “There was a 20-year-old, no medical history coming in with a 103 fever and rash and an x-ray of his lungs that looks similar to a 60-year-old’s. This is really happening.”
This is the same reports we heard out of Italy, South Korea and China.
Can Lung US Help Critical Care Clinicians in the Early Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pneumonia?
In all the patients, we found a diffuse B-pattern with spared areas. Only three patients had posterior subpleural consolidations. Chest CT scan was performed in all 12 patients and showed a strong correlation with US: bilateral lung involvement with ground-glass opacity; five of 12 patients had a crazy-paving pattern. Organizing pneumonia was confirmed in four patients as well as detected with lung US.
We are aware that our data are preliminary and further studies are necessary to confirm the role of lung US in the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 pneumonia, but we strongly recommend the use of bedside US for the early diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia in all the patients who presented to the emergency department with flu-like symptoms in novel COVID-19 era.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200847