Posted on 10/22/2020 8:16:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – St. Louis County leaders said the latest COVID data is concerning.
St. Louis Metro Pandemic Task Force leader Dr. Alex Garza said they are seeing a high number of occupied hospital beds with about 90 percent of healthcare beds full in the SSM Health system. The numbers were slightly lower in metro hospitals at 85 percent.
“Speaking with our task force hospitals yesterday that same sort of level was echoed across all the hospitals from St. Luke’s to Mercy to BJC,” Dr. Garza said. “We normally don’t operate at that high of a level.”
However, Dr. Garza said it is not only the lack of room that is stressful, but it is also the concern that there are not enough healthcare workers to staff those hospital beds because more frontline workers are catching the virus.
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85% occupancy doesn’t sound very high to me. Hospitals don’t make money without patients.
Word I hear is that healthcare workers are leaving because they don’t like the pay and hours generally.
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