LATEST: Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee sent a letter to the White House Monday requesting staffing resources to help the state's overwhelmed hospitals.
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee sent a letter to the White House Monday requesting staffing resources to help the state's overwhelmed hospitals.Rick Agrella, the assistant nurse manager at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, in Spokane, Wash., works on Sept. 10, 2021, in front of a Rosie the Riveter poster he put up in the intensive care unit in 2020 to help the staff stay motivated.
"Once the Delta variant hit Washington state, COVID-19 hospitalizations skyrocketed. From mid-July to late August, we saw hospitalizations double about every two weeks," Inslee wrote."The hospitals have surged to increase staffed beds and stretch staff and have canceled most non-urgent procedures, but are still over capacity across the state."
"While there are hopeful signs that the current wave of infection is peaking, and some states are beginning to see declines, we have not yet seen that effect here," the governor said. Washington state had already asked for 1,200 federal government staffers and is now"requesting the deployment of Department of Defense medical personnel to assist with the current hospital crisis," Inslee said.
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