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Role of academic medical centers as field hospitals during emergency situations
By April last year, up to 28 free-standing alternate care sites ranging in size from 50 to 3,000 beds were underway or finished in the U.S. the Michigan Medicine Field Hospital among them.
This 500-bed alternate care site was planned and construction underway from March through May to meet the estimated surge in COVID-19 patients, expected to overrun hospitals nationwide and in Michigan. Sue Anne Bell, assistant professor of nursing and a disaster expert, was one of the field hospital s five-member leadership team.
Bell and her colleagues from Michigan Medicine recently published a study in
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More than 2,900 U.S. health care workers have died in the Covid-19 pandemic since March, a far higher number than that reported by the government, according to a new analysis by KHN and The Guardian. (Explore the new interactive tool tracking those health worker deaths.)
Fatalities from the coronavirus have skewed young, with the majority of victims under age 60 in the cases for which there is age data. People of color have been disproportionately affected, accounting for about 65% of deaths in cases in which there is race and ethnicity data. After conducting interviews with relatives and friends of around 300 victims, KHN and The Guardian learned that one-third of the fatalities involved concerns over inadequate personal protective equipment.