Covid-19 wave that’s pushing some systems to their breaking point in the South spills into the rest of the country. More than a dozen states face severe shortages of personnel, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services data show. In Texas and Hawaii, hospitals are building tents for extra space. In Florida, the federal government has deployed hundreds of ventilators to Florida in a rare tapping of the Strategic National Stockpile for that equipment.
The scramble comes as hospitals in hard-hit states say they’re reaching surge capacity, canceling elective procedures again and turning away transfer patients, a jolting warning for parts of the country where cases are just beginning to rise again. “What we’re running short of most