As experts are eager to slow the spread of COVID-19 by encouraging vaccination and the use of masks, hospital systems in a few states are now struggling to keep up with the growth. COVID-19 patients account for at least 15% of total hospitalizations: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, and Texas. Among all COVID-19 hospitalized patients, the total number of hospitalizations in these eight states accounted for approximately 51% of the total number of patients, although these states only accounted for 24% of the national population.
Jeff, the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, said: “Last week, the number of COVID-19 cases in Florida exceeded the total of the 30 states with the lowest case rates combined. Florida and Texas alone accounted for the number of new hospitalizations nationwide. Nearly 40% of the total.” Zienz at the White House briefing. Florida has reported 151,415 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, which is a 7-day record during the pandemic. Five states (Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi) have fewer than 10% of intensive care unit beds.
In Alabama, 95% of the beds are in use and only 80 are available. Mississippi reported that there are only 78 open beds in the state. Nationwide, 77% of ICU beds are in use, and 23% of ICU beds are dedicated to COVID-19 patients. Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated on August 13 that after the recent surge in numbers has calmed down, he expects the coronavirus to spread in the U.S. and other Western countries. The country is popular. Gottlieb said: “We are changing from a pandemic to a more endemic virus, at least in the United States and other Western markets.”
An endemic virus is a type of virus that stays at a relatively low frequency. Viruses in the American population, such as seasonal flu. Doctors at the main children’s hospital said that almost all of their patients were not vaccinated. They are under the age of 12, are not yet eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, or are adolescents whose vaccination has been postponed. In states with low vaccination rates, pediatric hospitals are crowded with COVID-19 patients, which means that the best way to protect children is to vaccinate their adult family members, and the current number of hospitalizations is still the number of adult hospitalizations a small part.
Child deaths are still rare-the highest rate of newly admitted pediatrics at any time during the pandemic. There is increasing evidence that even mild or asymptomatic infections in children can cause long-term illnesses, just like adults. Many children’s hospitals are overwhelmed due to diseases and parainfluenza viruses that usually occur in winter, and in some cases co-infection with COVID-19. “After months of zero or a small number of COVID cases in children, we are seeing babies, children and adolescents returning to the hospital more and more every day…I am worried that we will have no beds and staff,” Heather Ha Heather Haq, a pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, wrote on Twitter recently.
