NYC hospitals are just 11 days from running out of ICU beds, and 14 days away from running out of ventilators. Hospitals in the NYC area risk running out of equipment to care for the sickest patients as cases surge, NYCMayor and NYGovCuomo are warning.
Dr. Craig Smith has said that the NewYork-PresbyterianEven that lower figure exceeds the number that are likely available, wrote Smith, who's chair of the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian's Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
In Newark, New Jersey, an intensive care doctor told Business Insider that four floors of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center were already dedicated to coronavirus patients. She added that the organization is following protocols from the New Jersey Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We are anticipating continued surge for the foreseeable future," Dr. Patrick Borgen, the chair of surgery, said. "We're having to aim pretty far down the line." A ventilator during a news conference at the New York City Emergency Management Warehouse on March 24.Maimonides is also taking cues from other providers that have started getting creative with"We're having to think outside the box as this thing grows," Borgen said. The health system is studying the approach but has yet to try it.
Already, NYC is beyond some of the best-case-scenarios Northwell had laid out for the pandemic, Jarrett said.
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