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More than 3,000 people in the US have died from coronavirus
By Holly Yan, Madeline Holcombe and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 0318 GMT (1118 HKT) March 31, 2020
(CNN)At least 3,003 people have died in the United States from Covid-19, according to a CNN tally of data from state health departments.
There have been at least 160,698 cases of coronavirus that have been detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems.
The total includes cases from every state, the District of Columbia and several US territories, as well as repatriated cases.
Hawaii and Wyoming have not reported a death from coronavirus.
Each day sees more reports of deaths than the previous day. There were more than 500 reports of deaths from coronavirus on Monday, the most death reports in a single day in the United States.
Almost one out of every five US deaths reported during the coronavirus crisis was reported Monday.
Doctor fears chaos
Many people on the front lines of the national heath care crisis against Covid-19 are feeling frustrated -- and ill -- in the battle against the novel coronavirus.
Hundreds of medical workers across the country have fallen sick and hospitals face dire shortages of protective gear.
"We are slowly descending into chaos," a trauma physician at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital said.
The doctor's colleagues who normally rely on literature, research and training are "flying blind" without instruments and building guidelines from the ground up, the physician said.
And when they're done treating coronavirus patients in trauma, they head back to the ICU to treat more.
At a New York hospital, staff members were wiping down and reusing single-use protective equipment, a doctor in the anesthesiology department said.
When the hospital ran out of life-saving ventilators, it started using anesthesia machines instead.
"There is not enough of anything," the doctor said. "There are just so many patients who are so sick, it seems impossible to keep up with the demand."
And it's not just the elderly who get severe complications. More young adults are getting hospitalized with coronavirus.
At NYU-Langone Brooklyn hospital, patients ranging from their 20s to their 90s are being intubated, an emergency room nurse said.
In Boston, "we are seeing lots of young people get very sick in our intensive care units," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"So when we are asking you to stay home, we are saying please stay home because we don't know who they will be," she said. "We have no way to predict who of the younger will get sicker."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/us-coronavirus-updates-monday/index.html
By Holly Yan, Madeline Holcombe and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 0318 GMT (1118 HKT) March 31, 2020
(CNN)At least 3,003 people have died in the United States from Covid-19, according to a CNN tally of data from state health departments.
There have been at least 160,698 cases of coronavirus that have been detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems.
The total includes cases from every state, the District of Columbia and several US territories, as well as repatriated cases.
Hawaii and Wyoming have not reported a death from coronavirus.
Each day sees more reports of deaths than the previous day. There were more than 500 reports of deaths from coronavirus on Monday, the most death reports in a single day in the United States.
Almost one out of every five US deaths reported during the coronavirus crisis was reported Monday.
Doctor fears chaos
Many people on the front lines of the national heath care crisis against Covid-19 are feeling frustrated -- and ill -- in the battle against the novel coronavirus.
Hundreds of medical workers across the country have fallen sick and hospitals face dire shortages of protective gear.
"We are slowly descending into chaos," a trauma physician at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital said.
The doctor's colleagues who normally rely on literature, research and training are "flying blind" without instruments and building guidelines from the ground up, the physician said.
And when they're done treating coronavirus patients in trauma, they head back to the ICU to treat more.
At a New York hospital, staff members were wiping down and reusing single-use protective equipment, a doctor in the anesthesiology department said.
When the hospital ran out of life-saving ventilators, it started using anesthesia machines instead.
"There is not enough of anything," the doctor said. "There are just so many patients who are so sick, it seems impossible to keep up with the demand."
And it's not just the elderly who get severe complications. More young adults are getting hospitalized with coronavirus.
At NYU-Langone Brooklyn hospital, patients ranging from their 20s to their 90s are being intubated, an emergency room nurse said.
In Boston, "we are seeing lots of young people get very sick in our intensive care units," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"So when we are asking you to stay home, we are saying please stay home because we don't know who they will be," she said. "We have no way to predict who of the younger will get sicker."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/us-coronavirus-updates-monday/index.html
