‘Devastating’: Hospitals prepare for preventable surge as COVID delta variant attacks unvaccinated
In Dallas, those hospitalized are almost exclusively people who have chosen not to get a vaccine.
Nurse Natalie Salazar held the hand of an intubated COVID-19 patient in the Tactical Care Unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital as he received a chest tube placement to re-expand a punctured lung in February.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
Front-line health care workers at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas are preparing for another COVID-19 surge.
This one, they say, is preventable.
More unvaccinated people are being hospitalized with the dangerous delta variant at rates similar to last year’s late-fall spike.
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When COVID-19 vaccines first became available, Dr. Barbara Chapman said there was a sense of hope in the medical community after being on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic for months.
That hope, according to Dr. Chapman, has recently turned to a familiar overwhelming feeling with a recent spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations following months of clinics. Chapman is a family nurse practitioner serving McKinney and east Texas. Their clinic in McKinney is able to refer patients with symptoms to hospitals, if needed.
“We were hopeful we’d gotten on top of this, and there was an end in sight. So, to see this resurgence is disheartening,” Chapman said Tuesday. “The mental health care component of this is really affecting nurses all over the country, especially my colleagues here in the Dallas area.”
North Texas pediatric hospitals seeing spike in COVID-19 cases among kids
Pediatric hospitals in North Texas are once again seeing a concerning rise in COVID-19 cases.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Pediatric hospitals in North Texas are once again seeing a concerning rise in COVID-19 cases.
Cook Children s Medical Center in Fort Worth is reporting case numbers at rates not seen since February.
Cook Children s has 13 hospitalized children with COVID right now, while Children s Health has 16 between its Dallas and Plano locations.
While the numbers are small compared with the population, it is the increase that has doctors concerned.
With some children experiencing severe COVID symptoms, Cook Children’s Director of Infection Control Dr. Marc Mazade says unvaccinated adults need to do their part to protect our youngest vulnerable population.
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