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Coronavirus in N.Y.: Will a Surge in Patients Overwhelm Hospitals?
“We are not prepared,” one doctor said. New York City’s hospitals may be moving too slowly as the outbreak spreads, experts say.
Two of the biggest hospital systems in the Northeast — New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — plan to cancel nonemergency surgeries. NYU Langone Medical Center’s Tisch Hospital turned a pediatric emergency room into a respiratory ward for adults. Northwell Health, which has a sprawling network of hospitals, is asking retired nurses to return to work.
But New York City’s hospitals, widely considered among the best in the world, may still be moving too slowly to get ready for a coronavirus outbreak that has already overwhelmed other countries and is now taking root in the New York region, according to many health care experts.
THE LATESTRead our live coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in the New York area.
“We are not prepared to deal with a rapid and severe surge of patients — we’re just not,” said Dr. Christopher M. Tedeschi, a longtime emergency physician and assistant professor at the Columbia University Medical Center. “We’re sort of planning for what’s going on right now, and we’re trying to make up for lost time, but I’m not sure we’re planning for a month from now, or even two weeks from now.”
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I was reading that the Presidential Election may have to be cancelled and postponed if this gets worse.
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Will a Surge in Patients Overwhelm Hospitals?
“We are not prepared,” one doctor said. New York City’s hospitals may be moving too slowly as the outbreak spreads, experts say.
Two of the biggest hospital systems in the Northeast — New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — plan to cancel nonemergency surgeries. NYU Langone Medical Center’s Tisch Hospital turned a pediatric emergency room into a respiratory ward for adults. Northwell Health, which has a sprawling network of hospitals, is asking retired nurses to return to work.
But New York City’s hospitals, widely considered among the best in the world, may still be moving too slowly to get ready for a coronavirus outbreak that has already overwhelmed other countries and is now taking root in the New York region, according to many health care experts.
THE LATESTRead our live coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in the New York area.
“We are not prepared to deal with a rapid and severe surge of patients — we’re just not,” said Dr. Christopher M. Tedeschi, a longtime emergency physician and assistant professor at the Columbia University Medical Center. “We’re sort of planning for what’s going on right now, and we’re trying to make up for lost time, but I’m not sure we’re planning for a month from now, or even two weeks from now.”
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-hospitals.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_200315&campaign_id=2&instance_id=16751&segment_id=22245&user_id=b34fc7146ad577d0cec7edf24a5b4609®i_id=330484760315
I was reading that the Presidential Election may have to be cancelled and postponed if this gets worse.
