auch in New York Realität
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/31/...tals-coronavirus/
"...Over the past few days, however, as the city’s death count topped 1,000 with 10,900 people hospitalized amid predictions the peak of the crisis is still two weeks off, some hospitals and medical centers activated those protocols.
Those decisions are a reflection of a grim reality in which thousands of health-care workers have fallen ill, ventilators are so scarce that some hospitals have put two patients on one machine, and protective equipment like masks and gowns are in such short supply that some workers are sewing their own. Such a policy was announced at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, N.J. A memo detailing similar changes was sent out Saturday at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens but rescinded Tuesday afternoon. Doctors at other hospitals are informally putting such protocols into practice.
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, an emergency nurse at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and who heads the New York State Nurses Association, described the situation as “post-apocalyptic — like in one of those movies I used to watch.” “Everybody is exposed,” said Diana Torres, 33, a nurse at Mount Sinai West in Manhattan. “People are dying by the minute.”
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