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In 5 states there are less than 10% of ICU beds and the covid-19 overwhelms

2021-08-31T14:24:04.908Z


In five states of the United States, ICU beds are running out and the increase in COVID-19 infections puts hospitals in check.


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As COVID-19 cases rise in the United States, especially among unvaccinated Americans, hospitals are forced to treat the influx of patients as much as possible, and five states are on the verge of running out beds in ICUs.

Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Arkansas have less than 10% of their bed capacity left in ICUs, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.

In Georgia, the CEO of Northeast Georgia Health Systems said she had 287 covid patients this Monday morning, which is more than the hospital has had since January.

"So, in essence, our hospitals are full," Carol Burrell said.

"We are looking to add space in hallways and conference rooms and in waiting areas. Our emergency rooms and our urgent care centers are seeing more volume than they have seen throughout this pandemic," he said.

Hospitals across the country have been forced to cope with the resumption of cases, but the south, where vaccination has been delayed, has been hit particularly hard.

Many hospitals have reported oxygen shortages.

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On Monday, data presented by a vaccine advisor to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a 16 times higher hospitalization rate in the non-population. vaccinated than in the vaccinated.

"This strikes me as a strong indication that the current epidemiological curve that we are seeing is really a reflection of vaccination failure, not vaccine failure," said Dr. Matthew F. Daley, at the Advisory Committee meeting on CDC Immunization Practices.

The effects of low vaccination

The effect of low vaccination levels can be seen in Kentucky, where hospitals are overwhelmed with a record number of Covid-19 patients, and 58 of 96 hospitals are reporting critical staff shortages, Governor Andy said Monday. Beshear.

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"We are living a reality in which some covid patients who are sick are being treated in their cars when there is no space for them inside the emergency room or inside the hospital," said Beshear.

And Mississippi is struggling too, with only nine ICU beds available in the state, Mississippi Deputy Director and Director of the Department of Health Jim Craig said Monday.

With the increase in hospitalizations, there have been more deaths.

The Central Florida Disaster Medical Coalition has purchased a total of 14 portable morgues to help with the "unprecedented" number of COVID-19 deaths in the region, the organization told CNN.

The number of cases on the rise has also been seen in children, and the number of children who have tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month has reached levels not seen since last winter, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The rise in infections in children worries experts as parents and students prepare for the new school year.

Thousands of students, quarantined

Health experts have been especially concerned about the evolution of cases as classes begin;

And with many regions beginning their academic year, thousands of students are already in quarantine.

In Florida's 15 largest school districts, at least 21,869 students and 4,481 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of classes, according to an analysis by CNN.

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At least 45,024 other students and staff members have been quarantined or have received "stay at home" directives due to possible exposure to COVID-19.

This is a 62% increase since CNN's last update on Thursday afternoon.

In Texas, after just the first two weeks of school in the Fort Worth Independent School District, more than 3,000 students have been quarantined due to close contact with people who have tested positive for COVID-19.

The District announced a mask-wearing mandate earlier this month for all students, employees, and guests, despite ongoing legal battles in the state against Governor Greg Abbott's ban on such mandates.

The problem of the lack of vaccination of minors

Although vaccines are currently the best defense against the spread of the virus, they have not yet been approved for those under 12 years of age.

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But even children who are eligible for protection are not reaping all the benefits.

Children ages 12 to 15 are eligible, but less than half of that group is vaccinated with at least one dose, according to data released Monday by the CDC.

School infections could be cut in half through masking and testing, projections show

Although the risk of unvaccinated students becoming infected when they go to school is concerning, a new study shows that masking and testing could help prevent infections in at least half of that population.

The use of masks, vital to contain the covid-19

With the universal use of the mask, less than half of susceptible students - and perhaps up to a quarter - could be infected with COVID-19 in the same period of time, depending on the level of protection that students have from vaccines or natural immunity, according to projections modeled by researchers at North Carolina State University and released preliminarily earlier this month.

Researchers' projections suggest that if random testing is added for half of the students every two weeks and assumes compliance with isolation requirements of at least 70% for those who test positive, COVID-19 infections they would be reduced to less than a quarter of all susceptible students in all settings.

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The model assumes that in a class of 500 students, two or three are infected at the beginning of the school year and that an additional case enters the school each week.

Former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CBS's Ed O'Keefe on Sunday that "we have to do everything we can." to minimize cases among schoolchildren.

"I don't think we should go into the school year lifting mitigation that may have worked, and probably worked last year, to control outbreaks in the school setting, until we have firm evidence on what works and what doesn't," he said, adding measures like frequent testing and putting students in social bubbles "are probably the two most effective steps schools can be taking."

CNN's Angela Barajas, Kiely Westhoff, Taylor Romine, Elizabeth Joseph, Mallory Simon, Elizabeth Stuart and Deidre McPhillips contributed to this report.

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