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the chief administrate officer of mercy hospital, springfield. thank you for being with us. i have been following your twitter updates, the updates you have been giving on the hospital and the patients there. what does your covid unit look like now? thank you for having me. i do appreciate it. today as of right now we have 122 covid positive patients in the hospital, about 20 of those are currently in the emergency room waiting for placement in beds upstairs. our plan allowed us to open multiple units based on acuity. we have two units serving icu level patients, one of those is full with 28 of those patients on covid, 24 are ventilated and then we have several stepdown units and we have capacity on the medical unit as well we can move patients on and off. it takes a lot of work to move those patients around and make adjustments to make sure we have capacity to care for the patients. 122. if i am following this correctly, and you can correct me if i m wrong, that s a new record for
community with what we re committed to doing. eric, last question here. what does this feel like to be back here after what we all watched for the last 15 lived through for the last 15, 16 months? the rest of the country in large part are coming out of this and your hospital just hit a record for your covid unit. what does that feel like? it is tiring. i will say, you know, for our staff on the floors, the physicians, nurses, our respiratory therapists, everyone, the housekeepers, it is almost, i think, a sense of shock a little bit, like how did we end up back here, a sense of fatigue and frustration, knowing there s a readily available solution to this problem and we still have so much reticence in the community to step in and join collectively in this fight to kind of get things back to normal. so i think those are the three, the fatigue, the shock and the frustration. you hear it every day from our co-workers and they re very tired. eric frederick, thank you and
could prove a problem for the rest of us. but, yes, it is an incredible miracle. you know what? you only need to speak to someone who lived through polio to know what life is like when you don t have a vaccine and you have to sit and watch people get very sick and die. we are so incredibly blessed and lucky we don t have to watch that. elizabeth cohen, thank you for all of that. so the u.s. is still seeing just under 12,000 new covid cases a day, just shy of 200 deaths a day at this point in the pandemic. proof of how far much of the country has come, as we just discussed, but in missouri some hospital staffers say they feel like they are going backward. one hospital in springfield has been forced to open a second covid ward with more than 100 covid patients there. the state reported the second highest number of new covid cases yesterday, behind only arkansas and, not surprisingly, it has would be of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. let s bring in eric fredrick,
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