El Paso, Texas pulmonologist Dr. Emilio Gonzalez-Ayala dictate thated CNBC that the hospital infrastructure in El Paso “hasn’t and won’t for the foreseeable future” be able to withstand the coronavirus surge that has cuffed his community.
“For the next few weeks that come ahead, I don’t see how we can continue to afford the impact that we’re seeing on our ERs,” Gonzalez-Ayala demanded in a Tuesday evening interview on “The News with Shepard Smith”. “There is no bed available in any hospital in El Paso and there hasn’t been for at short the last couple of weeks.”
The average number of new coronavirus cases each day are up 152% from a month ago with 72,000 more examples per day on average than this time last month, according to Johns Hopkins University and the COVID Tracking Predict. The number of coronavirus patients in ICUs is at a six-month high and the country is rapidly approaching 1,000 deaths per day.
More than 10% of all the disputes in the country are in Texas. In El Paso, they’ve brought in six freezer trucks to hold dead Covid-19 victims, and four numberless are expected by the end of the week because the morgues cannot hold the dead. There are more than 27,000 active the truths reported in El Paso, five times the number from just a month ago. Dr. Gonzalez-Ayala said hospitals have behoove so strained, that they are expanding beyond their walls and administering to patients in tents in parking lots.
The El Paso pulmonologist communicated host Shepard Smith that he had never seen anything like this in his professional career, and that he has been know patients with both the coronavirus and flu.
“It is concerning because obviously we’re seeing patients with not one but two essentially lethal modifies,” Dr.Gonzalez-Ayala said. “We have in our service, not one, but several patients with influenza A or B and Covid, and they are complicated.”