“I can either protect myself or my patients.”
the Words come from Faezah A. Bux, who is anesthesiologist in Danville in the u.s. state of Kentucky.
throughout the UNITED states has doctors, nurses and others in health care in recent weeks experienced a growing shortage of critical equipment in the fight against coronavirus.
Several places in the country have hospitals, medical clinics and doctors desperately been able to see how life-saving equipment such as masks, respirators and gloves is starting to become impossible to get hold of.
Stocks are dwindling.
Dr. Faezah A. Bux tells the New York Times, how it has been necessary to intubere several elderly patients without any mask or protection for the eyes. This increases the risk of spreading the coronavirus significantly. Lives can be lost.
And it is not only in Danville, Kentucky, the problems are piling up, while udstyrsmængden goes the other way.
In California, it is feared to run out soon. And as a doctor in Fresno says to the newspaper:
“We are in a war without ammunition.”
In Minnesota considering medical clinics to shut down completely. In Los Angeles receives the doctors equipment that has exceeded its expiration date. In St. Louis uses doctors masks, not sitting close enough during the operations. In the state of Washington count you the days before you run out of vital equipment. And in Alabama recycle man masks in order not to run dry.
the Situation in the UNITED states could recall a system on the verge of collapse. All of this takes place, weeks before the local authorities expect the outbreak of the corona virus will peak.
as of now the numbers of infected and dead, with coronaviruses exploded. More than 240,000 are found to be contaminated. And over 6,000 have lost their lives. And when you read this article, the figures are already outdated.
the States are in a struggle to avoid that their health collapses, as seen in Italy and Spain with hobevis of the dead and apocalyptic scenes as the result.
the Battle to get the life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and respirators is relentless. So hard, that the different states are located in the internal bidding war. A bidding war, which can prove to get lethal consequences.
It has been a fact, after president Donald Trump at a press conference a few days ago you could tell that the amount of aids you have in reserve, as is beginning to be set up.
In New York, which in these days is the UNITED states’absolute centre of the number of infected people, governor Andrew Cuomo has been out and put into words the desperation, which is spread in the different länder.
“We literally have companies calling and saying: ‘Now shall you hear, California has just outbid you. It’s like being on eBay and bid on respirators with 50 other states,” said Cuomo, referring to the well-known auction website.
Enough can Cuomos opinions get people to smile, but it is deadly earnest.
His state, New York city, is the lengths the state, which has the most cases of COVID-19.
More than 80,000 in the state of New York have been diagnosed with COVID-19. And about 2,000 have lost their lives. The numbers are rising all the time and is not expected to peak for several weeks.
the Criticism has been tough on president Donald Trump, who has long chosen not to recognize the potential crisis the UNITED states faced with the spread of the coronavirus.
In a number of states feel the governors themselves left alone in the fight.
The republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, said earlier in the week in an interview with NPR that his state ‘flew blind’ in the fight against the coronavirus, and the democratic governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont, described the whole situation as ‘alarming’.
“We are quite alone,” said the governor to the New York Times.
The different states and the race for the gradually dwindling resources were really put in the time, when president Donald Trump at a press conference in the past week called on the states to even begin to buy masks, respirators, gloves, and more.
In a report from Homeland Security have since been able to read that the states are struggling to buy protection on a ‘runaway global market, where prices and profits are out of control’.
Back in Danville, Kentucky, says dr Faezah A. Bux and her patients back as the big losers:
“There is absolutely no way I can protect myself,” she says.
