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The daily decisions that accompany living amid the pandemic

CPR-Colorado Matters

Nov 18, 2021
Audience gathers for a Denver Film Festival screening at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Nov. 5, 2021
Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH explains, "There's enormous amounts of disappointment, frustration, anger.  You certainly hear that when you speak to people in the healthcare system.  Some 80 percent of the folks we're seeing coming into our hospitals with COVID now, are the relatively few people remaining who are completely unvaccinated.  That's who's showing up on our doorsteps and that is very frustrating, as we this week are looking at implementing "Crisis Standards of Care," because our health system is so swamped.

At our health system for example, the national standard is you should have is one respiratory technician for every 5 people you have on a ventilator.  We currently have one respiratory technician for every 15 people we have on ventilators.  That's not only unsafe for patients, that's not at all ideal for those respiratory technicians.  They are really being crushed by this current wave."
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