U.S. COVID-19 continues to worsen, medical staff are generally overwhelmed

According to statistics from the New Crown Tracking Project, as of 7:46 am on the 18th local time, the number of hospitalized cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeded 114,000, reaching 11,423…

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As the new crown epidemic continues to worsen, the US medical system is facing unprecedented pressure. According to the new crown tracking project statistics, as of 7:46 am local time on the 18th, the number of hospitalized cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeded 114,000, reaching 114,237. At the same time, the intensive care unit is quickly being filled with patients with new coronary pneumonia. In severely affected areas such as Southern California, the intensive care unit is no longer available.

The physical and mental pressures overwhelmed the local medical staff. To this end, the director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, said that hospital admissions capacity is at a cordon level, and the work pressure of medical staff is approaching its limit. The rapid increase in the number of patients with new coronary pneumonia has caused a serious shortage of medical staff. Doctors and nurses who can still stick to their posts have to work overtime continuously. Some of them have worked continuously for more than 10 hours a day from March to now. This has caused many medical staff to be exhausted physically and mentally. At the same time, medical staff are also facing tremendous mental pressure. Experts predict that the winter epidemic has occurred, and the number of deaths across the United States has skyrocketed. Many medical staff have been in a sad atmosphere for a long time. In addition, because it is extremely easy to contract the new crown virus at work, some nurses choose to live alone during the epidemic, so they have not seen their families for a long time.

Editor: Mu Qing

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