Collected Item: “The Fifth Wave and it's Strain on a Small Costal Town”
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The Fifth Wave and it's Strain on a Small Costal Town
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Newspaper Article
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The coastal town of Elma, Washington has been hit hard by Covid. The smaller-sized hospitals are overrun with Covid patients and the burden being put on healthcare infrastructure in the area is massive. People are having to wait hours for care at local hospitals and chances are if you call an ambulance, it will not be able to take you to a local hospital. The extra driving is eating up the EMS system's time and causing issues with getting care from emergency services.
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#Elma, #Washington, #EMS, #medical, #fifthwave, #news, #Aberdeen, #Olympia, #TheDailyWorld, #hospital, #staffing
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/web/20211008183726/https://www.thedailyworld.com/news/elma-fire-chief-describes-covid-fifth-wave-strain-on-ems/
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Dan Hammock
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2021-10-06