Becker's Healthcare March 30, 2022
As it stands, the nation’s healthcare infrastructure is not equipped to withstand routine bouts of COVID-19 surges, Megan Ranney, MD, wrote in a March 28 opinion piece published in The Washington Post.
“After five surges, and with vaccines and treatments widely available, it’s human nature to want to believe the job is done,” writes Dr. Ranney, an emergency medicine physician and academic dean at Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, R.I. “In reality, our healthcare system is in no better shape today than it was two years ago — and, in fact, it might be in worse condition.”
She points to burnt out healthcare workers exiting the field; a rise in violence against healthcare workers; sicker patients;...
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