NEW YORK: In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19: but ...
FILE PHOTO: A person holds up their ID as a worker in protective clothing gathers information from people that want to get tested, at Glen Island Park in New Rochelle.NEW YORK: In New York City, an intensive care nurse treated patients for three days after she started displaying symptoms of COVID-19: but couldn't get a test from her hospital. In Georgia, a nurse was denied a test after treating an infected patient who died.
Mount Sinai Hospital's chief medical officer, Vicki LoPachin, told staff on Apr 4 that the hospital would increase testing of employees with symptoms of the virus starting on Tuesday. On Monday, the US Health and Human Services Inspector General’s Office published a survey of 323 hospitals that found the shortages left the facilities unable to effectively test staff and patients, who frequently waited more than seven days for results because of delays at outside laboratories.
NYC Health + Hospitals, the corporation that operates the city’s 11 public hospitals, said last week they would have the capacity to test all employees - regardless of symptoms - by Apr 22. "It’s a different kind of triage," said Caplan, the bioethics professor."It’s precaution versus, 'I need staff.'"
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