Sharp Grossmont doctor urges residents to use home testing to ease pressure on hospitals
As flu cases show signs of peaking in San Diego County, coronavirus continues to surge, according to the latest weekly update from the county health department.
“We’re having longer length of stays in our emergency room because we’re at that time of year where we’re also having a lot of staff that are calling in sick, and staffing has been an issue all throughout the county,” Elia said. Dr. Christopher Longhurst, chief medical officer at UC San Diego Health, said in an email Thursday that university hospitals had 40 active COVID-19 patients, the largest number since July, but still significantly fewer than the peak of 150 during last winter’s surge.
Some have called COVID-19 hospitalization figures misleading because they make it seem as if the virus itself is responsible for every patient that ends up in a bed after testing positive. There has been some hope that the impact on emergency room demand for care might be somewhat lessened this season due to the widespread availability of home testing. Last season, these tests were in very short supply, causing many with minor symptoms to show up at emergency departments looking to rule out coronavirus, even though their symptoms were relatively minor.
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