With patients flooding into emergency rooms, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the city’s hospitals were at 95 percent capacity. In California, the worst effects were being felt in the southern part of the state, where hospitals have been inundated. Hospitals in other cities that became overwhelmed were able to transfer patients to Phoenix, where Goldberg practices surgery at Maricopa Medical Center. In Mississippi, 10 ICUs have no beds available and the lack of capacity “is harming patient care,” state Health Officer Thomas Dobbs said at a news conference. The stress level, the emotional strain that our health-care professionals are starting to experience is going to start showing.

Source: Washington Post July 17, 2020 00:02 UTC