美國的醫院正變得不堪重負_風聞

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正文原創翻譯：

New Mexico’s governor announced plans to allow hospitals “to ration care depending on a patient’s likelihood of surviving,” according to the Washington Post.

據《華盛頓郵報》報道，新墨西哥州州長宣佈了一項計劃，允許醫院“根據病人生存的可能性來定量提供護理”。

But in fact, many of America’s hospitals are now “overwhelmed,” reports CBS News, adding “A record-breaking 227,00 new cases were reported in the U.S. on Friday alone — the first time the daily case count has topped 220,000, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.”

事實上，許多美國醫院現在早已經“不堪重負”，哥倫比亞廣播公司新聞報道稱，“僅在週五，美國就報道了創紀錄的22.7萬例新病例——根據約翰霍普金斯大學的統計，每日病例數首次超過了22萬。”

Two co-founders of the COVID Tracking Project offer this assessment of the state of America:

On Wednesday, the country tore past a nauseating virus record. For the first time since the pandemic began, more than 100,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, nearly double the record highs seen during the spring and summer surges. The pandemic nightmare scenario — the buckling of hospital and health-care systems nationwide — has arrived. Several lines of evidence are now sending us the same message: Hospitals are becoming overwhelmed, causing them to restrict whom they admit and leading more Americans to die needlessly…

COVID跟蹤項目的兩位聯合創始人對美國的情況進行了如下評估:

週三，美國打破了新的病毒感染記錄。自大流行開始以來，美國首次有超過10萬人因新冠肺炎住院，幾乎是春季和夏季高峯期間創紀錄高點的兩倍。大流行的噩夢場景已經到來，全國醫院和保健系統開始崩潰。

好幾條線索正在向我們傳遞同樣的信息：醫院正變得不堪重負，這將導致它們會限制接收病人，然後導致更多的美國人死亡……

Many states have reported that their hospitals are running out of room and restricting which patients can be admitted. In South Dakota, a network of 37 hospitals reported sending more than 150 people home with oxygen tanks to keep beds open for even sicker patients. A hospital in Amarillo, Texas, reported that COVID-19 patients are waiting in the emergency room for beds to become available. Some patients in Laredo, Texas, were sent to hospitals in San Antonio — until that city stopped accepting transfers. Elsewhere in Texas, patients were sent to Oklahoma, but hospitals there have also tightened their admission criteria….

許多州報告説，它們的醫院已經沒有足夠的空間，並開始限制病人收治。

在南達科他州，一個由37家醫院共同提交的網絡報告説，有150多人不得不帶着氧氣罐回家，以便為病情更重的病人提供牀位。

德克薩斯州阿馬裏洛的一家醫院報告説，COVID-19患者正在急診室等待可用牀位。德克薩斯州拉雷多市的一些病人，則被送往聖安東尼奧市的醫院，直到該市停止接受轉院治療。

在德克薩斯州的其他地方，還有病人被送往俄克拉荷馬州，但那裏的醫院也已經開始收緊入院標準。

The bulk of evidence now suggests that one of the worst fears of the pandemic — that hospitals would become overwhelmed, leading to needless deaths — is happening now. Americans are dying of COVID-19 who, had they gotten sick a month earlier, would have lived.

目前大量證據表明，對大流行的最嚴重擔憂之一正在發生，美國的醫院開始不堪重負，病人開始造成不必要的死亡。美國人正死於COVID-19，而如果他們早一個月患病，也許就能活下來。