Photo: Courtesy forbes.com ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Increasing COVID-19 cases combined with staff shortages are straining the ability of Missouri hospitals to provide
People unsure of their illness leaving before they are seen by doctors. Sick patients waiting for hours, sometimes days, in an emergency room because there is nowhere for them to be admitted. Others dying in small-town hospitals unable to access the services they need in urban centers like St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Increasing COVID-19 cases combined with staff shortages are straining the ability of Missouri hospitals to provide care for patients with the virus and other illnesses, according to hospital officials.
Increasing covid-19 cases, combined with staff shortages, are straining the ability of Missouri hospitals to provide care for patients with the virus and other illnesses, according to hospital officials.
St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force leaders said Wednesday the coronavirus is winning amid hospital staffing shortages and record-breaking patient numbers.
St. Louis hospitals are canceling procedures, shuffling an overburdened workforce and pleading with the public to wear masks and get vaccinated as they fill with COVID-19 patients.
St. Louis area hospitals are getting "crushed" by the highest number of COVID-19 patients they've seen yet in the pandemic, hospital leaders said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.