In Photos: A Look Inside a Modern Covid-19 Field Hospital in the United States
A Look Inside a Modern Covid-19 Field Hospital in the United States Buzz | Associated Press | February 12, 2021, 6:09 pm
1/ 9 The non-profit Care New England health network opened the Kent Field Hospital on Nov. 30, just before Rhode Island’s infection rate became the highest in the world. Kent Hospital was using all its beds for its sickest COVID-19 patients, and needed somewhere for the overflow. Now, other hospitals also occasionally send patients to the field hospital. Photo: AP
2/ 9 Rhode Island’s infection rate has come down since then, and many of the field hospital’s 335 beds are now empty. On quiet days, the medical staff wishes they could do more. Only stable, non-intubated COVID-19 patients are transferred a few miles to the field hospital, and only if they consent. Some refuse. The idea of a field hospital can conjure up images of giant tents in a war zone, canvas sid