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Comitetul Naţional de Coordonare a Activităţilor privind Vaccinarea împotriva COVID-19 (CNCAV) a anunţat, joi, că peste 82.000 de persoane au fost vaccinate în ultimele 24 de ore, din care peste 43.000 cu prima doză. Alte peste 22.000 de persoane s-au vaccinat cu doza a treia, informează news.ro.
Potrivit CNCAV, în ultimele 24 de ore au fost vaccinate 82.614 de persoane. Dintre acestea, 43.257 s-au prezentat pentru a primi prima doză de ser sau doza unică de la Johnson & Johnson. Alte 22.513 persoane s-au vaccinat cu doza a treia.
În acelaşi interval, au fost raportate 44 de reacţii adverse: 21 la vaccinul Pfizer, 9 la Moderna şi 14 la Johnson & Johnson. Alte 175 de reacţii adverse sunt în curs de investigare şi nu au fost raportate cazuri severe.
Numărul total al persoanelor vaccinate a ajuns la 7.190.510, din care 6.445.584. Până în prezent, 947.903 de persoane s-au vaccinat cu doza a treia.
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(mesaj trimis de anonim în data de 04.11.2021, 19:38)
ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid
By Kate Wells, Michigan Radio
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.
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Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she said in a warm Texas twang.
But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled.
“I always feel very, very bad when I walk down the hallway and see that people are in pain, or needing to sle ep, or needing quiet. But they have to be in the hallway with, as you can see, 10 or 15 people walking by every minute,” Dusang said.
The scene is a stark contrast to whe rethis emergency department — and thousands of others — were at the start of the pandemic. Except for initial hot spots like New York City, in spring 2020 many ERs across the country were often eerily empty. Terrified of contracting covid-19, people who were sick with other things did their best to stay away fr om hospitals. Visits to emergency rooms dropped to half their typical levels, according to the Epic Health Research Network, and didn’t fully rebound until this summer.
But now, they’re too full. Even in parts of the country whe recovid isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care.
Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among other conditions.
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(mesaj trimis de anonim în data de 04.11.2021, 19:40)
ER Patients Have Grown Sicker
“We are hearing fr om members in every part of the country,” said Dr. Lisa Moreno, president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. “The Midwest, the South, the Northeast, the West … they are seeing this exact same phenomenon.”
Although the number of ER visits returned to pre-covid levels this summer, admission rates, fr om the ER to the hospital’s inpatient floors, are still almost 20% higher. That’s according to the most recent analysis by the Epic Health Research Network, which pulls data fr om more than 120 million patients across the country.
“It’s an early indicator that what’s happening in the ED is that we’re seeing more acute cases than we were pre-pandemic,” said Caleb Cox, a data scientist at Epic.
Less acute cases, such as people with health issues like rashes or conjunctivitis, still aren’t going to the ER as much as they used to. Instead, they may be opting for an urgent care center or their primary care doctor, Cox explained. Meanwhile, there has been an increase in people coming to the ER with more serious conditions, like strokes and heart attacks.
So, even though the total number of patients coming to ERs is about the same as before the pandemic, “that’s absolutely going to feel like [if I’m an ER doctor or nurse] I’m seeing more patients and I’m seeing more acute patients,” Cox said.
Moreno, the AAEM president, works at an emergency department in New Orleans. She said the level of illness, and the inability to admit patients quickly and move them to beds upstairs, has created a level of chaos she described as “not even humane.”
At the beginning of a recent shift, she heard a patient crying nearby and went to investigate. It was a paraplegic man who’d recently had surgery for colon cancer. His large post-operative wound was sealed with a device called a wound vac, which pulls fluid fr om the wound into a drainage tube attached to a portable vacuum pump.