New York City hospitals are 11 days from running out of beds as the number of new coronavirus cases explodes
Dr. Craig Smith has said that the NewYork-PresbyterianEven that lower figure exceeds the number that are likely available, wrote Smith, who's chair of the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian's Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
In Newark, New Jersey, an intensive care doctor told Business Insider that four floors of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center were already dedicated to coronavirus patients. She added that the organization is following protocols from the New Jersey Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Workers construct a makeshift morgue outside Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday, March 25, 2020.In Brooklyn, Maimonides Medical Center is gearing up. The hospital typically has about 720 beds, and is stretching that to 1,400, using a tent, a nursing facility, and areas normally used for cancer treatment and surgeries.
"Staffing is the biggest issue we face right now," Northwell's Jarrett said. "If we get more cases, that'll be even more of a problem." Northwell's Jarrett said the organization is working to turn anesthesiology machines that might otherwise be used during surgeries into ventilators. What he's planning for is next week.
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