When COVID Cases Outnumber Doctors and Nurses
4 min readNov 24, 2020
and what that means for your family and loved ones
Despite many barriers to insurance and getting healthcare, most of the time, we expect there to be a spot for us or our loved ones at a hospital if we need it. For everything from sickness, broken bones, car accidents or necessary surgeries, we have a basic assumption that when it is our family, there will be a spot to take them. But if the hospital is full, there is nowhere for these people to be treated.
In some parts of the United States, that is already happening.
In other places it will happen soon.
A quick glance at the headlines confirms the grim reality that health care workers are trying to get through the heads of the portion of the population that are still not taking this pandemic seriously.
