Mosaic Sees Steep Increase in Covid cases (9-15-20)

Mosaic Sees Steep Increase in Covid cases (9-15-20)

Blaming the steep increase in cases and hospitalizataions in part due to the labor day weekend when lots of people congregated together..

They say those who have been admitted to the hospital fall within all age ranges -- and not just the elderly.

Experts agree that most of those who contract the virus start to show symptoms by day five -- and almost all of them start to feel the effects by day 11.

Now, many have gotten sick enough to be admitted to the hospital.

Mosaic staff say this is the rush of patients they had been preparing for since the pandemic began.

These are patients that have symptoms well beyond the headaches, fever, loss of smell and loss of taste many experience.

(sot dr. edward kammerer, mosaic chief quality officer: "what really gets you in trouble with covid is when it gets, descends into your lungs.

That's when things start to go south.

So, what i recommend to patients is that if they start to cough, if they start to get short of breath, i like them to walk up and down the stairs and tell me are they just a little short of breath or are they really starting to struggle.") kammerer says if they get beyond 48 covid-19 patients and fill up their covid ward, they can open up another floor for 48 more patients, but that would mean they would have to cut back on other services they are providing for at the hospital.

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