ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have COVID-19

ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have COVID-19
COVID fears have triggered chaos in hospitals as people who tried to avoid the emergency department delayed treatment and developed more serious problems. Chokchai Poomichaiya/Shutterstock
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Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members were struggling to care for patients who are showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.

Tiffani Dusang, the emergency room’s (ER) nursing director, practically vibrated with pent-up anxiety, looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways.

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