Doctors are telling people not to panic over the latest reports that say there are no intensive care rooms in all of western Wisconsin.
The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there’s zero availability in the western part of the state, while the state’s Department of Health Services says 96 percent of western Wisconsin ICU beds are full. Dr. Joseph Krien with Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse says that just means hospitals in western Wisconsin can’t accept patients from other parts of the state. He says people who are sick will be treated. Krien says there’s no need to panic, and says people’s best bet is to take care of themselves so they don’t end-up in the hospital.
Most of Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccines are booster shots, not first-time doses.
The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said doctors and nurses handed-out just over 19-thousand vaccine doses last week.
By comparison, DHS says doctors and nurses were averaging 26-thousand booster shots per-day last week. Just over three-point-four million people in Wisconsin have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. DHS says just over a million people have now gotten a booster.
It’s another grim coronavirus milestone for Wisconsin.
The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the state has topped nine-thousand coronavirus deaths since the beginning of the outbreak. Nine-thousand-and-52 people have died from or with the virus since March of last year. DHS says 74 percent of coronavirus deaths are among people 70-and-older. To date, DHS says just four people under the age of 19 have died from or with the virus.
