In today's health headlines we talk about how one Detroit Hospital struggled with the number of dead from COVID-19 as well as a new saliva test for identifying the COVID-19 Coronavirus in individuals.
PHOTOS FROM ONE DETROIT-AREAHOSPITAL..
SHOW JUST HOW BAD THECORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAS GOTTENIN THE CITY.THE PHOTOS SHOW BODIES STORED INEMPTY ROOMS... AND PILED ON TOPOF EACHOTHER IN REFRIGERATED UNITS.WE DO WANT TO WARN YOU -- SOMEOF YOU MAY FIND THESE IMAGESDISTURBING.RYAN YOUNG REPORTS.00-15RYAN YOUNG: "I CAN TELL YOU OVERA FEW DAYS - MY TEAM AND I'VEBEEN WORKING ON THIS, WE'VEBEEN TALKING TO HEALTHCAREPROFESSIONALS THROUGHOUT THEDETROITAREA AND IT WAS AT A COUPLE OFHOSPITALS WHERE WE WERE GETTINGSOME INFORMATION FROMTHEM ABOUT SOME OF THECONDITIONS THEY WERE WORKING IN.NOW WE'LL SHOW YOU SOME OF THESEPHOTOS.
THIS WAS DURING A TIMEWHEN THERE WAS AN INFLUX OFPATIENTS AND OBVIOUSLY THISENTIREAREA HAS BEEN HIT VERY HARD BYCOVID 19."RYAN YOUNG: "WHEN SOME OF THEPROFESSIONALS INSIDE THE ER WERETELLING US THAT BASICALLYAT SOME POINT THEY WEREOVERWHELMED.
THERE WERE PATIENTSDYING IN A HALLWAY.
THEY ALSOHAD SO MANY BODIES, THEY DIDN'TKNOW WHERE TO PUT THEM AT ONEPOINT, AND YOU CAN SEE THEM INTHISONE ROOM WHERE IT'S A SLEEPSTUDY ROOM.
THEY'VE PLACED THEMIN THERE FOR A PERIOD OFTIME, BUT IT'S THE FREEZER ROOMTHAT REALLY CAUGHT OUR ATTENTIONWHERE YOU CAN SEE THE BODIESSTACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER."RYAN YOUNG: "I CAN TELL YOU SOMEOF THE STAFF THERE BECAME SOUPSET THEY STARTED REACHINGOUT TO US.
THEY DIDN'T THINKTHERE WAS ENOUGH PREPARATION PUTIN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THEY WEREABLE TO ABSORB ALL THE PEOPLETHEY RECEIVED.
THE PATIENTRATIOS WERE ALSO OFF.
THEY HAD ALOTOF NURSES AND, UM, NOT ENOUGHNURSES TO THE PATIENTS.
AND SOWE'LL SHOW YOU THE FREEZERSFROM THE OUTSIDE.
WE KNOW THEYHAD TO ORDER MORE FRIDGES, SOTHEY HAD FIVE FREEZERS TO BEINCLUDED ON THE OUTSIDE TO HAVEALL THE PATIENTS THAT THEY WERERECEIVING.
AT THIS POINT, THEHOSPITALSAYS THEY SURGE MORE STAFF,THEY'VE ADDED MORE FREEZERS, BUTYOU CAN TELL THE TOLL ON THESTAFF THEMSELVES.
THEY WERE VERYUPSET TALKING TO US OVER ASEVERAL DAY PERIOD, SAYING MORENEEDED TO BE DONE."THERE'S A NEW TEST FORDIAGNOSING CORONAVIRUS... ANDALL IT TAKES IS A LITTLESALIVA.THE F-D-A GRANTED ANEMERGECY-USE AUTHORIZATION FORTHE SALIVA TEST...WHICH WAS DEVELOPED BY RUTGERSUNIVERSITY.IT REQUIRES A PERSON TO SPITSEVERAL TIMES INTO A TUBE...THAT IS THEN SENT TO A LAB TOBE TESTED.THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM THECURRENT TEST... WHICH SWABS THEPATIENT'S NOSE ORTHROAT.AT THIS TIME... THE SALIVA TESTWILL ONLY BE OFFERED BY CLINICSAND HOSPITALS THATARE ASSOCIATED WITH
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