At Franciscan Health, medical workers have been forced to ration care in order to “match our caseload, both inpatients and outpatients, with available beds and staff on a daily basis.” The Indianapolis Business Journal reports that the Indiana University Health system has had to delay thousands of elective surgeries as a result of the state’s more than 5,000 daily cases. Jaewon Ryu, noted in a press conference Wednesday that, “There was a day at Jersey Shore where every single patient other than one was admitted for COVID.” Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital is operating at 130 percent, according to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, of these patients 61 percent have COVID-19. The rise in hospitalizations has already pushed hospitals across the Midwest and Northeast past their capacity. And deaths have remained high, averaging more than 1,000 per day over the past month. Over the past month, hospitalizations have jumped from a recent low of more than 41,000 on November 10 to 57,000 today, including more than 14,000 in intensive care. 7, 2021, file photo, registered nurses Kyanna Barboza, right, tends to a COVID-19 patient as Kobie Walsh puts on her PPE at St.
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