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Rosalind Cornwell, standing, and Stefany Esparza, with Atrium Health’s Teammate Health, demonstrate an antibody testing session.
On Oct.7, the Greensboro-based Cone Health system had 57 COVID-19 patients across their small network of hospitals. A month later that number had almost doubled. A month after that, it was up to a total of 167.
And the numbers keep climbing.
“We’re doing this to ourselves,” Bruce Swords, the system’s chief medical executive, told his colleagues.
According to Doug Allred, the system spokesperson, medical leaders at Cone are frustrated, and they’re worried about having enough staff to handle what appears to be a continuing surge of patients.