Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「On New Year’s Day in Southern California, the overflowing emergency room at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center spilled into the hallway. Doctors treated patients on oxygen in the waiting room after running out of beds. Some 80% of patients admitted in recent days have Covid-19.⠀ ⠀ Offices have been converted into exam rooms and many non-Covid patients are sent to a tent outside. “We have patients waiting 12 hours to get seen. A lot of patients give up and go home,” said Dicky Shah, assistant chief of the emergency department at Baldwin Park Medical Center. “It feels like we’re in wartime.”⠀ ⠀ Los Angeles County has reported an average of 13,988 new cases a day for the past two weeks and infections appear to be increasing, based on the average during the prior seven days, Johns Hopkins University data show. The county’s daily average new cases is three times as many as any other U.S. county.⠀ ⠀ Across the nation, the surge of coronavirus cases is crowding large metro hospitals with Covid-19 patients, pushing occupancy against the limits of space and overwhelming nurses and doctors. More than 40% to 60% of ICU patients in some metro areas are critically ill from Covid-19, according to an analysis of federal data by the University of Minnesota Hospitalization Tracking Project.⠀ ⠀ The crisis is a public-health threat that reaches far beyond major cities, say doctors, nurses, public officials and experts in health-care policy. The biggest hospitals in major metro areas often have specialists and lifesaving equipment lacking at smaller regional hospitals. They serve as a release valve when smaller facilities are overrun. As large hospitals fill, they close to local ambulances as well as most patient transfers, creating a far-reaching strain on regional heath-care networks.⠀ ⠀ Read more at the link in our bio. ⠀ ⠀ 📷: @allisonzaucha for @wsjphotos」1月6日 0時43分