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[quote=Anonymous]My sibling is an ER doctor in Phoenix and says they are "completely getting slammed" with Covid patients.  It's getting scary because unlike NYC there is no end in sight because people aren't socially distancing or wearing masks.

The ICU beds at my sibling's hospital were completely full Sat night and then they had a few pts die and others recover from surgery so they gained back a few beds Sunday.  They're still doing elective surgeries
so these will stop at some point and they'll gain back these beds for use for Covid.  They do have ventilators for surge beds but not stafff--so for awhile they'll get on with staff picking up extra shifts and then they'll hire agency staff. 
But at some point the numbers will just outpace the the staff.  Hospitals will start moving patients around to different hospitals but again this only works for so long.

Because again--the state ISN'T doing anything about this.  Medical staff are freaking out because they're literally not doing ANYTHING to stop the numbers from continuing to climb daily except for individual citizens who start distancing.

My sibling says it's all community spread--people who picked it up at stores, restaurants, etc.  All ages. 
It's exactly ONE MONTH since the state just decided to open and pretend that the virus didn't exist.  No masks, no distancing. 
It's likely worse there because it's so hot that people spend the majority of their time indoors. 
The virus seems to spread much less often in the outdoors (even in crowds).

Moral of this story---we need to keep wearing masks.  It's going to really, really ugly in states that don't.

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