New York is dangerously close to overwhelming its hospital system with new COVID-19 cases — and preparing to recruit retired doctors and nurses to the front lines again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
“It’s a new phase in the war against COVID,” Cuomo said — adding that daily coronavirus hospitalizations statewide are nearly quadruple what they were in June.
Every hospital in the state must begin compiling a list of retired doctors and nurses that they can draw from because there are already staffing issues in some areas, Cuomo said.
“I am very worried about staff shortages,” Cuomo said. “I’m more concerned about the staff shortage than I am the [number of hospital] beds.
“We can build beds. We can’t create more staff. And the staff is starting tired.”
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A political virus does not fill up hospitals, they fill up GITMO which they just made 5 times bigger.
Why doesn’t he just stick the patients into the nursing homes? Didn’t that work great last time?
Maybe if people weren’t stuck at home watching children who are out of school they would be availeble to work in the hospitals