Understaffed Oklahoma pediatric hospitals overwhelmed with patients

by Miranda Vondale FosterWed, January 19th 2022 at 3:58 PM

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — Children in Oklahoma are being admitted to local hospitals in droves, majority of them being COVID positive, doctors say.

Just like other hospitals in Oklahoma, Oklahoma's children's hospitals are experiencing a staff shortage. One doctor said while they have the beds to accept additional patients, they don't have enough people to staff the open beds.

In addition to the staff shortage, doctors are saying many of the medicines used to treat COVID are in short supply as well. Health care workers say because of this short supply, they are having to pick and choose carefully who gets the treatment.

...Doctors say there have been over nine million cases of children getting sick from COVID-19, and a tenth of those happened just last week...

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