At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City in April, physician Michael D'Urso was scrambling to care for the seemingly ever-increasing number of patients being wheeled into the emergency room where he worked.
NEW YORK - At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City in April, physician Michael D’Urso was scrambling to care for the seemingly ever-increasing number of patients being wheeled into the emergency room where he worked.
For a time, it appeared Florida would avoid New York’s fate as a pandemic epicenter. But come July, confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths began sky-rocketing in the sunshine state.“Now with the focus in Miami, the relationship has mostly flipped, with me calling him with my experiences and the newest treatment protocols we are using,” Dennis told Reuters.
While New York’s COVID-19 caseload reached as high 66,000 new cases a week in April, Florida’s peak weekly rise was 7,500 during the same month, according to a Reuters tally. There was one distressing trend Dennis wasn’t able to glean fully from his brother’s experience in New York City: the high numbers of younger, healthy patients flooding the emergency room as the surge hit Miami.
He said the number of coronavirus critically ill patients he tends to has dropped since April and medical professionals have learned some of the hard lessons of the first few months of the pandemic, which have given them a better handle on the disease.
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