A COVID-19 outbreak across the U.S. could overwhelm emergency rooms and cause shortages of face masks and other crucial medical supplies.
A larger spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the U.S. could overwhelm emergency rooms and cause supply shortages of some crucial medical supplies.Another serious respiratory illness, the seasonal flu, is at its peak.
The COVID-19 epidemic in China has not yet met world health officials' designation of a global pandemic that spreads far and wide throughout the world. While it's spread to more than two dozen countries, international health officials say there's very little transmission on local levels outside of China right now. But they've warned that could quickly change.
Health-care workers are being taught how to reuse N95 respirator masks, most often used to control exposures to infections, in case of wide-spread shortages, she said. "I think we've done a good job educating people," she said. "When we first started there were people in the community saying they were worried that they stood next to someone at the airport who had a mask on ... I think they realized that that is probably a little bit of panic on their behalf."At Northside Hospital, a network of hospitals and medical facilities in Atlanta, the staff is continuously monitoring the coronavirus outbreak, according to a spokesperson.
"We are trying to communicate to NYU staff and patients in our medical center how to best protect themselves from the flu or COVID-19," Lighter said. "That's just general info like basic hand hygiene, sneezing into the end of your elbow and practicing safe distance from someone who is sick."
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