DENVER — Flu and COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising in Colorado at a time when pediatric capacity is already strained by a surging respiratory virus, leading health providers to fear they could have to postpone surgeries again if too many people get sick in the coming weeks.
Clinics in the UCHealth system recorded 1,160 positive tests for influenza in the last week, which was a “huge jump” from 495 cases a week earlier, said Dr. Michelle Barron, the system’s senior medical director of infection prevention and control. While most of those people will recover at home, some inevitably will need hospital care, which is a problem when COVID-19 hospitalizations are also rising and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, continues to put a severe strain on the capacity to care for pediatric patients, she said.
“The more people that get it, the more chances there are that someone will have a complication,” she said of the flu. “I feel like we’re again at the tipping point.”
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
denverpost So RSV has filled hospitals due to Covid restrictions, limiting room for those few people, Who haven’t lost weight and are still experiencing severe Covid infections and because of this and fired staff, elective surgeries will be postponed? Have we learned a lesson?
denverpost Last night we went to Children’s Broomfield campus for a possible fractured jaw in a 5 yr old and ER was overflowing with families sitting on the floor with really sick kids and a 9 hour wait. Holy shit it’s so bad. So. Bad.
denverpost Mask up!
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