dire cases that are coming in in such great numbers now. we checked in with the springfield green county health department today about the status of their request after they made this public appeal yesterday for basically a new field hospital, a new care site to be set up by the state. they told us that the state hasn t answered. hasn t yet given them any answer or a timeline for when they will make a decision. but as the county health director put it yesterday when she announced the request, the request was pretty simple. what she said is, quote, we need help. will they get it? joining us now is dr. robin trotman, infectious disease physician at cox health in springfield, missouri. doctor, a pleasure to have you with us tonight. thanks very much for taking time to be here. thanks, rachel. thanks for having me on. so we have been following what s going on in your region, and at your hospital as best as we can from afar. i think the country s eyes are increasingly on southwest misso
some kind of alternative care site in springfield for covid patients. they need someone to send covid patients who are stable enough to move, they need to make room for the dire cases coming in and dire numbers. we checked in with the health department about the status of their request after they made this public appeal yesterday. for a new care site, field hospital to be set up by the state. they told us that the state hasn t answered. hasn t yet given them any answer or timeline for when they will make a decision. but as the county health director put it yesterday when she announced the request, the request is pretty simple. when she said quote, we need help. will they get it? joining us now is doctor rob entrapment, infectious disease physician at cox health in springfield missouri, it s a pleasure to have you with us tonight. thank you, rachel. thank you for having me on. so we ve been following what s going on in your region
evidence of the transparent political motivation of the attorney general s review. of course, that s a dig at the attorney general herself. because they re essentially saying they think she s going to run for governor. that s something speculated for a bit. but it will be interesting to see when this report comes out what sort of response it will be from the public about what is said in that report. and it will be interesting to see if we get any insight into what answers are given in this interview as well. thank you, bryn, for your reporting. now, the surge of covid infections so intense, health officials in missouri are now asking for funding to set up another care site to handle the strain. we ll go there live. stay with us. disease and bad breath. never settle for 25%. always go for 100. bring out the bold™
patients that are sure to come. as we talked about on the show last night, the county health department and local hospitals asked the state, asked the governor of missouri, republican governor mike parson, to help them set up some kind of alternative care site in springfield for covid patients. they need somewhere to send covid patients who are stable enough to move. they need to make room for the dire cases that are coming in in such great numbers now. we checked in with the springfield green county health department today about the status of their request after they made this public appeal yesterday for basically a new field hospital, a new care site to be set up by the state. they told us that the state hasn t answered, hasn t yet given them any answer or a timeline for when they will make a decision. but as the county health director put it yesterday when she announced the request, the request was pretty simple. what she said is, quote, we need help. will they get it? joining us no
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