Hospitals will now have to cancel all elective procedures, and discharge patients quickly if they are able to go home. I am retired as a nurse, I can just imagine what is currently happening in hospitals after this declaration .
I live in a small city, and back in 2016, I ended up in the emergency room, after having visited my doctor. My electrolytes were all messed up...low potassium, low sodium, low magnesium. They never found out why, but they admitted me, and I stayed in the hospital for 3 days. It was in February, and the hospital was so overloaded with flu patients, that they had to open an old wing that they hadn't used in years, in order to deal with the patients that were coming in. My nurse turned out to be some administrator, who had been called on to help with the staff shortages. She was awesome, and even after they got me admitted to a regular room, she came to check up on me to see if I needed anything.