Health
Houston, Miami, other cities face mounting health care worker shortages as infections climb – The Washington Post
“What this is going to do is it’s going to cost lives, not just for covid patients, but for everyone else in the hospital,” an expert warns.
While many hospitals have devised ways to stretch material resources converting surgery wards into specialized covid units and recycling masks and gowns it is far more difficult to stretch the human workers needed to make the system function.
At the end of the day, the capacity for critical care is a balance between the space, staff and stuff. And if you have a bottleneck in one, you cant take additional patients, said Mahshid Abir, a senior physician policy researcher at the RAND Corporation a…
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