On Sunday, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported a COVID-19 hospitalization rate of 21.5% for Trauma Service Area A, a slight increase from Saturday’s rate of 21.34%.
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Why Has the Flu Disappeared?
With COVID-19 still dominating headlines, influenza (flu) has been conspicuous in its absence, especially during what is typically peak flu season. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks influenza (flu) and pneumonia deaths weekly through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Mortality Reporting System.
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It also creates a preliminary estimate of the burden of seasonal flu, based on crude rates of lab-confirmed flu hospitalizations. Such estimates are intended to give an idea of how many people have been sick from or died from the flu in any given season that is, except for 2020.
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Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene is overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. As Hendrick Health chief medical officer Rob Wiley explained, the intensive care unit has been over capacity for weeks.
“So right now, we are presently staying over probably 130% capacity every day,” he said. “And we ve been that way for a very long period of time for over a month.”
That means there are more patients requiring intensive care than the total number of staffed beds. Hendrick Medical Center and other hospitals have been forced to activate surge capacity.
“We re being asked to manage patients in the emergency room on floors that typically are not ICU beds, but we ve converted to ICU beds,” he said. “Fortunately, we ve had the nursing staff who have been able to take care of it because if you don t have the nursing staff, you can t take care of the patients, obviously,” Wiley said.
New report addresses the recovery of surgical services in post-pandemic
In 2013, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) established the GlobalSurg Collaborative, a network that has since grown to include more than 5,000 practicing surgeons from all corners of the planet.
Through GlobalSurg, networks of local, state, national and international researchers have formed to analyze surgical disparities and outcomes. Their mission is to study and advance global surgery, a term used to describe a multidisciplinary field of health care that seeks to improve access to basic surgical procedures for the estimated five billion people worldwide who lack such access.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, some of the GlobalSurg collaborators formed an umbrella group known as the CovidSurg Collaborative. Their mission is to disseminate good, evidence-based data across the world so that hospitals and physicians can form safe surgical environments during the pandemic, establish plans for condu