For much of the past two months, the number of people hospitalized with COVID in Massachusetts has been rising again:
Dr. Paul Biddinger, chief preparedness and continuity officer for the Mass General Brigham health system, standing in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
This COVID “creep” has been easier for hospitals to manage than the steep rise of COVID in the winter. At the time, hospitals canceled surgeries and other procedures just to make room for all the COVID patients. Patients who have COVID as a secondary issue still add to the strain on hospitals. They usually need private rooms, and health care workers have to wear more protective equipment when taking care of them.
Mass General Brigham has prescribed Paxlovid to more than 7,000 COVID patients, Biddinger said, and only 24 of them needed to be hospitalized. The staffing shortages have worsened during the latest COVID upswing, as health care workers themselves catch the virus and have to stay out of work for days. At large hospital systems, that could be hundreds of workers at a time.
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