The staffing plan allows for such things as “just in time" training for employees to assume responsibilities beyond their normal role and level of certification, according to the state Department of Public Health and Environment. Many regional Covid-19 waves tend to rise and fall quickly, but across many states in the West, regions appear trapped between the summer and fall waves, and the pressure on hospitals has dragged on more or less continuously.Ĭolorado activated a “crisis standards of care" hospital staffing plan Tuesday giving the industry broad authority to fill personnel gaps.
In Western states such as Colorado, hospital staff are under siege and exhausted. are bound to help, but that treatment won’t be widely available for at least a few months. New therapeutics such as a pill developed by Pfizer Inc. But it’s still not clear what threshold of vaccination will relieve the relentless burden on the health-care system. The widespread distribution of Covid-19 vaccines has shown remarkable success at keeping inoculated people alive and out of hospitals. are also experiencing unseasonably warm autumns, and many regions have yet to see what will happen when frigid temperatures push people indoors, where viruses spread more easily. faces several uncertain months ahead, with the highly infectious delta variant still circulating as the country heads into its traditional winter virus season.
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