{"id":29109,"date":"2020-11-11T21:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29109"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T05:15:54","slug":"wisconsin-health-official-warns-state-nearing-tipping-point-on-covid-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29109","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin health official warns state nearing &#8216;tipping point&#8217; on COVID hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strain is increasing on the nation\u2019s hospitals. The latest warning comes in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>A top health department official there says the state is nearing a point at which some patients who need lifesaving care will be unable to receive it due to overcrowding in hospitals resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, said during a discussion hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mptsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcwysnst_atymhhdkdnmpbhmdpthy.html?a=&amp;b=34784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mptsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcwysnst_atymhhdkdnmpbhmdpthy.html?a%3D%26b%3D34784&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605223680409000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2b8MlSbars-FTWnEBnyXHA\">Wisconsin Health News<\/a>\u00a0that the state was nearing a &#8220;tipping point&#8221; in terms of the number of hospitalizations caused by the virus that could result in facilities being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of the number of cases we&#8217;re finding, this is as bad as that early, severe wave in New York City,&#8221; Westergaard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very close to a tipping point, and I think right now all the hospitals are strained, and it&#8217;s causing a lot of stress on health care workers and leaders, but the case fatality rate has remained kind of low,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strain is increasing on the nation\u2019s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29110,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109\/revisions\/29110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}