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CHART: COVID-19 pandemic has strained hospitals far beyond normal flu Print this article
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained hospitals across the country to a far greater degree than any recent flu season.
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Washington Examiner analysis finds that COVID-19 hospitalizations have been about four times worse than the most severe recent seasonal flu and many times worse than in a normal flu season.
Medical professionals say that the stress the pandemic has put on the system is not comparable to that of the flu. To someone who says that, I d tell them, Spend a day with me and let me tell you what I ve seen for the last 10 months, said Dr. Comilla Sasson, an emergency physician at the University of Colorado Hospital. Since the pandemic began, Sasson has also assisted at hospitals across the nation, including in New York, South Dakota, and Texas.
Comilla Sasson is a Colorado emergency-room physician who thought she’d seen and done it all in the ER, including treating victims of the Aurora theater shooting as they arrived early in the morning of July 20, 2012. But she’d never seen anything like COVID-19 when the pandemic hit this country. Marty Coniglio:
You got involved in COVID-19 treatment by traveling to New York. What was that experience like?
Comilla Sasson: In my other life, I serve in the American Heart Association as the vice president for Science and Innovation for emergency cardiovascular care. We had just written the newest guidelines on how to take care of patients who have a cardiac arrest, for whom the heart stops. What do you do with this in the context of COVID?