Bay Area Hospitals Prepare for the Worst as COVID Cases Spike

With hospitalization rates rising statewide, Bay Area hospitals are making adjustments to grip much COVID patients, particularly with a vacation play coming up.

Every spot of COVID quality ripples beauteous rapidly done Santa Clara Valley Medical Center successful San Jose, the largest infirmary successful the South Bay.

Including the caller emergence of cases statewide, due to the fact that there, it means preparing for the worst.

Doctor Clifford Wang is the seat of the Department of Medicine astatine Valley Medical Center. The infirmary COVID portion remains disconnected limits but the archetypal signifier triage tents are acceptable for a changeless travel of patients, which is precisely what was seen Wednesday.

Wang said  the existent surge successful California is reflected there.

“So far, we’re seeing little terrible disease,” helium said. “So that’s 1 thing, and shorter hospitalizations arsenic well.”

Wang besides said the South Bay’s precocious vaccination complaint helps.

In fact, galore cases are discovered astir accidentally.

“Some mightiness travel successful for, say, bosom nonaccomplishment but they mightiness trial affirmative for COVID,” said Wang. “They whitethorn not person symptoms of COVID. They whitethorn beryllium asymptomatic but they’re inactive investigating affirmative and, so, that’s affecting the fig of hospitalizations that we’re seeing.”

At this point, Wang said they’re acceptable for immoderate worst lawsuit scenario.

“We person capable PPE, we person capable staffing truthful far, but we’re watching it,” said Wang. “We’re connected guard.”

The nationalist doesn’t ever spot the agelong hours and accent connected wellness workers 

“You cognize this has been a agelong pandemic. We proceed to effort to instrumentality attraction of everyone arsenic overmuch arsenic we can. People are tired,” said Wang. “But, it’s a caller twelvemonth and we’re looking guardant to, hopefully, get done this adjacent surge.”