Hospitals in Colorado are being allowed to turn away patients as the state experiences its worst Covid surge in a year.
The emergency room team at the Aurora Medical Center gears up for the arrival of a patient in April 2020.signed Sunday by Gov. Jared Polis gives health care professionals the authority to prioritize crisis care under the direction of the state health department.
Dr. Carrie Goodson left, comforts a patient as she is intubated, while nurses Ashley Vite, center, and Amy Cooper assist in the ICU Covid ward at the Medical Center of Aurora, in Colorado in May 2020."If you are unvaccinated, a regular trip to the grocery store, a night out to dinner are more dangerous than they have been at any point during this pandemic," Polis said Monday in Covid-19 update.
The majority of Covid hospitalizations are among unvaccinated people,"at somewhere between 80 and 90 percent across Colorado," said Dr. Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection control and prevention for UCHealth, the largest hospital in the Denver area. Doctors and nurses have been taking extra shifts and working overtime to meet the growing need, said Dr. Eric Poeschla, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Hospital, where 85 percent of all Covid patients are unvaccinated.
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