effects. for example, in alabama, this is the front page of the montgomery advertiser. e.r. has patient traffic jam. frustrated, overwhelmed, exhausted, they say a dangerous covid state filling the beds has turned a cascade of issues in the state. patients at the east alabama medical center are being held on ambulance stretchers while staff look for open beds, resulting in huge problems. quote, ambulances lined the e.r. bay in what one hospital spokesperson john hopkins called an e.r. traffic jam and they re unable to respond to other emergencies in their own communities. alabama reported a negative number of available staffed icu beds yesterday. negative, which means they have no room and there are patients waiting to get into the beds
stretchers while staff look for open beds resulting in huge problems, quote ambulances lined the e.r. bay in what hospital spokesperson john atkinson called a patient traffic jam that keeps out of town ambulances sidelined and unable to respond to other emergencies in their own communities. alabama reported a net negative number of available staffed icu beds yesterday. negative. which means they have no room, and there are patients waiting to get into the beds that are already filled. there are more patients than beds right now. and here is the thing that i find most unsettling about this, and this involves some very very very easy math. the situation that alabama is in right now is happening with the state having about 2,700 patients in the hospital. that is the level of hospitalization in alabama that has led to this big crisis. 2,700. today, the university of alabama at birmingham predicted that the
the defense department announced this week that they have four more active duty military medical teams like this one staffed up and ready for deployment at over run u.s. hospitals. we don t exactly know where the other four teams like this will be going after this team went to louisiana. but we do know there s plenty of american hospitals that could use emergency help right now because the huge numbers of covid patients that have swamped them, and that have seriously deleterious effects on the type and amount of medical care that can be provided. for example, in alabama, this the the page of the montgomery advertiser quote e.r. has patient traffic jam, e.r. as in emergency room. frustrated, overwhelmed exhausted alabama emergency medical technicians say a dangerous covid wave filling the icu beds has triggered a cascade of issues in the state. patients at the east alabama medical center in auburn are being held on ambulance