There’s a plea to stay out of the emergency room for non-emergencies.
Public health managers say people need to get a coronavirus test at a dedicated testing facility, not in the emergency room. Jamie Lucas, the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, says people are clogging an already overloaded healthcare system when they use the ER for tests.
Hospitals across the state say they are dealing with staff shortages and burn-out as coronavirus cases spike again in the state.
