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Detroit’s Sinai-Grace Hospital has been so overwhelmed by the influx of COVID-19 patient that at least two people have died in its emergency room hallways before help could arrive.
This is according to the healthcare workers at the hospital who spoke with CNN.
Staff members of the hospital say they don’t have enough coworkers or supplies to deal with the crisis.
Hospital workers there say many of the patients in the emergency room are presumed COVID-19 positive because they have viral symptoms.
But their test results take days to process.
Conditions have gotten so bad at the hospital that on Sunday night all of the emergency room’s night shift nursing staff staged a sit-in.
They refused to work and demanded that more nurses be sent to help.
Hospital administrators told the staff that they would not be bringing in any more nurses to help.
And that they could get to work or leave.
A physician at the hospital says some of the staff did leave.
A hospital worker there also says COVID-19 patients are dying so quickly they sometimes need to carefully stack bodies in temporary refrigerated storage.
According to John Hopkins University, Michigan has the third largest number of COVID-19 cases in the US behind New York and New Jersey.
Posted – 4.9.20