As hospitals focus on coronavirus, patients with other illnesses wait in fear

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Health care workers are taking steps at the recommendation of federal and state officials to cancel elective procedures, close non-emergency doctors' offices and postpone nonessential appointments

After a diagnosis of breast and thyroid cancer last spring, LaDonna Lokey knew she had a long year of surgery and chemotherapy ahead of her.

By the end of January, she had finished chemo and needed one more surgery to remove lymph nodes closing in on her vocal cords. But then the coronavirus pandemic struck, overwhelming her hospital in Wisconsin and others across the US.As coronavirus patients flood clinics and hospitals, health care workers are taking steps at the recommendation of federal and state officials to cancel elective procedures, close non-emergency doctors' offices and postpone nonessential appointments.

 

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This has already been done here in British Columbia Canada!

Read the novel before the show! DividetheDawn

And Democrats just want to spread division and hatred chaos panic I just feel sorry for you people who watch CNN that have so much hate for this president that it blocks out every single aspect of everything else it’s just

Cover the dam president live!

Do you people really hate this president so much but that’s all you care about the things Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer doing to our country during this period of time when we are fighting for our lives the very existence of our country and the Democrats only want to investigate

No one dies alone. The angels come. Spirit comes. If Americans watch anything. Watch into the red zone on sky news!

The bottom ticker on CNN always has hateful negative things going across saying how bad Trump is how bad of a job he’s doing box has actual information going across its bottom ticker things that are being done to save Americans lives how can you people just watch that hate

Just listening to Trump. He is like a drunk rambling 6year old. Cannot believe he is president

US federal gov't lift restrictions on Telemedicine services for seniors under Medicare New measures facilitate radical changes in the way medicine is delivered enabling patients access hospital-level medical care outside of hospitals TheFinancialDi2

cnn are keeping a tote board of those dead, like it was a Jerry Lewis telethon. Sad

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