Wyoming’s cases are routinely breaking records, and the WMC currently has the highest number of COVID patients its seen since the start of the pandemic in March.
“At 6 a.m. we had 149 patients upstairs which puts us at near-capacity, and we had 17 people holding in the Emergency Room,” he said, adding that long-term staffers have never seen that number in the ER.
Currently there are 21 COVID patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, he said. COVID patients generally stay much longer than other patients, taking up bed space. The hospital opened up its dedicated COVID unit for the first time since the pandemic started, and there are at least four patients there now, he said.
The hospital has diverted patients to other hospitals, taking only COVID, trauma, strokes and heart attacks. Voluntary surgeries were temporarily halted earlier today, he said.
“This is not going to go away for the next several months,” he said, “I think it’s going to get a lot worse, and our hospital is already stretched and we’re not even really seeing the amount of COVID we’re going to see.”
“We need everyone to mask in every business,” he said. “Everybody going in and everybody that works there, no exceptions. This is the real deal.”
“Masks work and social distancing works. There’s not going to be a vaccine for several months, I promise you.”
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