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In letter to Gov. Tony Evers and Republican leaders of the Legislature, @WIHospitalAssn's Eric Borgerding says the state needs more field hospitals.
http://www.wha.org/WHALetter-Elected-Leaders_COVID-11-18-20
http://www.wha.org/WHALetter-Elected-Leaders_COVID-11-18-20
"With few tools available right now to curb spread other than increasingly urgent public appeals, our COVID numbers are growing rapidly and predict, quite accurately so far, a health care crisis in WI that without
significant, swift, and unified action will become a catastrophe"
significant, swift, and unified action will become a catastrophe"
Borgerding pleads with state leaders to work together:
"We need you, the state’s top elected officials, to come together immediately with unified actions to slow demand for care by mitigating the spread of COVID-19 ..."
"We need you, the state’s top elected officials, to come together immediately with unified actions to slow demand for care by mitigating the spread of COVID-19 ..."
Borgerding says the state needs new field hospitals elsewhere in Wisconsin to address the surge but also because patients far away from West Allis often don't want to be transferred that far from home.
"Wisconsin faces a public health crisis the likes of which we have not experienced in three
generations," Borgerding writes. "A crisis of this magnitude caused by a virus that is so clearly raging across all of Wisconsin demands a unified and substantial response."
generations," Borgerding writes. "A crisis of this magnitude caused by a virus that is so clearly raging across all of Wisconsin demands a unified and substantial response."
"Your joint leadership is critical to improve this situation, allowing
everyone to get back to our way of life sooner," he tells Evers and GOP leaders.
everyone to get back to our way of life sooner," he tells Evers and GOP leaders.
