COVID-19, the flu and RSV have San Diego health officials concerned about a 'tripledemic' this winter. Local hospitals are preparing for surges in admissions following the Thanksgiving holiday.
Around this time last year is when COVID-19-related hospitalizations started to increase. Sharieff said about a week ago they had 52 COVID-19 positive patients, as of Monday it had risen to 81.
"If you think about hospitalizations in general — if you’re going to be seeing that volume of COVID patients and add on the flu patients we have — that could easily overrun the health care system," Sharieff said.In years past high COVID-19 admissions meant some surgeries had to be postponed, but Scripps is hoping to avoid that this winter.
"We’re ready for it," said Joshua McCabe, director of emergency services at Sharp Memorial Hospital."The hospitals at this point are not overwhelmed as we were a year or two years ago." Mild cases can generally be handled with primary care visits, urgent cares or even tele-health consultations. RSV is a respiratory virus that typically impacts young children. It was surging last month, but Rady Children’s Hospital officials said cases are trending down, but they are seeing more kids coming in with the flu. Rady's spokesperson Benjamin Metcalf said a large majority of patients are presenting at their emergency room for care, with about 10% of those actually being admitted."We’re going to see a winter surge — we just don’t want it to be that significant," said Dr.
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