What will it take to end the coronavirus shutdown? Here are 5 key things health experts say must be addressed as we begin to start up businesses and community life again.
have already started to use hotels and motels to house homeless residents who live in coronavirus hotspots.Hospitals in many places still struggle to get enough PPE and are getting creative about solving this. A nonprofit fashion design incubator in Tempe, Arizona, F.A.B.R.I.C., converted its warehouse to make isolation gowns for health care workers.
Hospitals are still struggling to source many essential supplies to allow them to serve a surge of patients. There's, but the AEI road map suggests that, on average, hospitals need to double their intensive care unit and ventilator capacity to care for critically ill COVID-19 patients, and that the supply of personal protective equipment should be stable so health care workers can protect themselves from infection.
Adalja is encouraged by efforts by hospitals and communities to share resources with each other, so that limited equipment can be targeted to the right places. He said that progress has already been made in"being able to rapidly move ventilators from one part of a country to another part of the country as the need arises." A public-private partnership called the"
," announced on Tuesday, aims to facilitate this kind of coordination between hospitals across the country.At the moment there's no clear evidence on an effective therapy for COVID-19. Right now, it's a waiting game as data on various treatments start to roll in.
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