You’ve probably heard and seen the news this week about the situation that hospitals in San Diego County have been facing as the number of COVID cases led by the highly contagious Omicron variant have continued to rise.
Hospitals becoming so busy, crowded and short staffed that measures have had to be taken to keep the emergency rooms open and hospital beds available for those who are in need of them.
Not only has there been a rush of people coming to emergency rooms, hospital staffs are short, because of health care workers who have been infected or exposed and isolated at home.
The San Diego Union Tribune this week reported on a critical situation that Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista was facing, with worries of running out of beds and enough workers to respond.
The Union Tribune quoting Lornna Hopping, manager of patient care for the emergency department, as saying that “the patient census holding steady at 44 for several hours made the situation doable with a little help from some friends.”
As she put it, “How it goes tonight will come down to personal relationships and what the community brings to our door.”
These health care workers who are facing situations they had hoped would be over by now with the vaccinations going on for the last year, deserve our praise, our thanks and our prayers.
Once again, we are being reminded that they remain the heroes of the pandemic that we all wish will be over soon.
(Photo reporting partner 10 News)
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