“That’s why we may end up with herd immunity,” a Mississippi doctor says. “Only the strong — or the people who take it seriously — will survive and many, many others will perish. I hate to say it, but we’re almost at natural selection at this point.”
Turnover at the state’s hospitals and long-term care facilities was already a problem before the pandemic, and it has only continued to grow in Mississippi since the virus has spread, said Kim Hoover, a registered nurse who now works as the chief operating officer of the hospital association.
Hoover said the ratio should be closer to 1 nurse for every 2 ICU patients or 1 nurse for every 3 to 5 patients who need a normal amount of care. "Trying to get people to come to work outside of their normal rotation is hard," nursing supervisor Ricky Pate.The patient load has buried medical workers across the Mississippi Delta.
“It was frustrating because I have no authority to control things,” he said. “I can tell someone that something is coming and we’re going to need help, like Dr. [Anthony] Fauci is, but I can’t force anyone to respond.” Dr. Satwinder Singh, the infectious disease doctor at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, is the only epidemiologist in the region.“There are nurses who we have now that we don’t know if they’re positive or not,” he said. “There are a lot of asymptomatic people, and we don’t have enough tests to test everybody. So because they cannot be tested, you don't know who has the disease. But it's way more, maybe 10 times more, than what we are counting now.
Her husband, Chad, was in a similar boat a few weeks ago when he was in charge of responding to the hospital’s coronavirus cases.
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