Even as local officials insist the end of the worst phase of the coronavirus crisis might be coming into view, shortages of key drugs are causing alarm in the epicenter of the nation’s COVID pandemic in New York City.
Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency are working to move large amounts of critical drugs into thearea to deal with continuing shortages, the agency told ABC News. While some hospitals have managed to build up some stock of the intubation and sedation medications, others are reporting problems keeping up with a demand created by the combination of new cases and the long-term needs of many people seriously ill with COVID-19.
At the same time, FEMA disaster managers in New York City have been burning up phone lines to secure more and more of the drugs needed specifically by ambulance crews and the temporary hospital at the Javits Center in Manhattan – now one of the largest medical facilities in the nation. Medics wearing personal protective equipment , intubate a gravely ill patient with COVID-19 symptoms at his home on April 06, 2020 in Yonkers, New York.
A FEMA spokeswoman said supplies are running low for the drugs used to treat and sedate patients who need to be mechanically ventilated. The problem is twofold: There are more patients who need such drugs because of the pandemic and many seriously ill with coronavirus often wind up needing mechanical ventilation for two and three times the number of days typical ventilator patients need the treatment.
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