“Our staff are afraid to come to work,” said Tracey Nixon, chief nursing officer for University of Utah Health. “I [recently] had three nurses leave because they can’t do this again.”
Health care workers tend to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital in Provo, Aug. 25, 2021. Utah’s hospital leaders now are warning that more bed shortages are imminent amid record coronavirus infections.Utah’s supply of monoclonal antibodies and antiviral medications for COVID-19 is running out as the number of new cases broke a state record again Thursday.
Hospitalizations for the coronavirus have been rising since Christmas — 530 coronavirus patients were hospitalized as of Thursday, Hofmann said — but Utah’s hospitals have not yet seen the worst of the recent spike in cases, as patients typically aren’t admitted for at least a few days after testing positive.
“We were on ambulance divert for six hours last night because our [emergency department] was overwhelmed with patients seeking care,” Nixon said.
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