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As hospitals face severe staffing shortages, some health care workers have changed jobs
May 9, 2021
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A tent is shown outside the ambulance entrance to the emergency room at the Laredo Medical Center in this April 2, 2020 photo. While COVID-19 hospitalizations have significantly decreased, hospitals are again dealing with capacity issues due to other conditions.Cuate Santos /Laredo Morning Times
By the last count, only 16 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in Laredo about 6% of the number who were in the hospital during the pandemic’s peak in January.
And yet, local hospitals are again at capacity, this time with patients suffering more quotidian illnesses such as heart attack, stroke, trauma and infection. Due to a lack of staffing, hospitals are having to resort to the same practices as five months ago placing patients in holding in the emergency room, sometimes for up to 24 hours, while they wait for a room.
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