{"id":6965,"date":"2022-01-07T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:35:47","slug":"covid-19-surges-spark-chain-reactions-that-strain-us-hospitals-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6965","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 surges spark chain reactions that strain US hospitals everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;One&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22196119\/icu-capacity-hospital-staffing-coronavirus-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hospital being overwhelmed<\/a>&nbsp;isn\u2019t a one-hospital problem, it\u2019s an every-hospital problem. Even if your community is not awash with Covid-19 or if most people are vaccinated, a major outbreak in your broader region, plus all the other patients hospitals are treating in normal times, could easily fill your hospital, too. That makes it harder for the health system to treat you if you come to the ER with heart attack symptoms or appendicitis or any acute medical emergency.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/coronavirus-covid19\/22849829\/covid-omicron-variant-cases-surge-us-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/coronavirus-covid19\/22849829\/covid-omicron-variant-cases-surge-us-hospitals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One hospital being overwhelmed isn\u2019t a one-hospital problem, it\u2019s an every-hospital problem. Even if your community is not awash with Covid-19 or if most people are vaccinated, a major outbreak in your broader region, plus all the other patients hospitals are treating in normal times, could easily fill your hospital, too. That makes it harder for the health system to treat you if you come to the ER with heart attack symptoms or appendicitis or any acute medical emergency.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1346,588,409,483,80,476],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bending-the-curve","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-health-system","tag-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6966,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}