The coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has created enormous anxiety, uncertainty, and disruption to our lives. Much has already been written about potential shortages of medicines and face masks, but little has been said about something only you and I can provide – lifesaving blood.
A mere five miles separate The Keio Academy in Purchase, New York and Glenville School in Greenwich, Conn.
As the number of people with coronavirus increases daily, Keio Academy, a private boarding school, has decided to end classes for its 330 students for the remainder of the school year. Nearby Glenville School, a public school with 404 students, remains open.
Our country is facing an inevitable onslaught of coronavirus patients on the health-care system, and more specifically on hospitals’ intensive care units. A study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security estimates anywhere from 200,000 to 2 million ICU visits for Covid-19 patients during the outbreak. If demand from these patients is spread over two months, and each one resides for six days in the ICU, this reflects a need for up to 200,000 beds.
Shoppers hoping to stock up on hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes are running out of options as more coronavirus cases continue to surge.
With back-up plans for running out of respirator masks and for opening an outpost to test patients for the COVID-19 coronavirus, Yale New Haven Hospital is “confident that we are ready” to handle any mass local outbreak.
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