Photo: ReutersDoctors and nurses on the front lines of the US coronavirus crisis pleaded on Friday for more protective gear and equipment to treat waves of patients expected to overwhelm hospitals as the sum of known US infections climbed well past 100,000, with more than 1,600 dead. That tally kept the United States as the world leader in the number of known infections, having surpassed China and Italy on Thursday. "We are scared," said Dr. Arabia Mollette of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn. Marney Gruber, an emergency doctor who works in multiple hospitals around New York City, said commonly used medications were in short supply and hospitals were running out of oxygen tanks. The US military also is setting up field hospitals in Seattle and New York, the Pentagon said.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 28, 2020 06:00 UTC