Record numbers of covid-19 patients push hospitals and staffs to the limit

December 17, 2020

Hospitals reported more than 110,000 coronavirus patients on each of the past two days, a record count for the pandemic, according to tracking by The Washington Post. Covid-19 patients at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, a 600-bed public hospital, have "blown past" its earlier record in July, said Brad Spellberg, the hospital's chief medical officer. The hospital has 150 covid-19 patients and 50 in the ICU. We're seeing a tremendous stretching of our entire emergency medical system's capacity." In North Carolina, which for the past three days has set daily records for the number of hospitalized covid-19 patients, nursing staff is the No.