全国的卫生保健工作者是恳求公众遵循新冠肺炎指南作为国家努力遏制又一波病毒。
美国新冠肺炎死亡人数周三达到26万约翰·霍普金斯大学称，美国几乎每个州的感染率都在上升。
中村豪/盖蒂影像公司
在大学的新冠肺炎重症监护室，一名医务人员握着一名病人的手
这家医院的首席执行官罗斯·科克马斯(Ross Korkmas)周二在Facebook上发布的一份声明中写道，在德克萨斯州矿产井(Mineral Wells)的巴勃罗·平托综合医院(Pablo Pinto General Hospital)，距离达拉斯以西约90英里，医生和护士“正在努力将病人转移到更高水平的护理”。
undefined他说，医院的重症监护室和新冠肺炎病房都客满，目前收治的病人比以往任何时候都多，这使得有需要的病人很难被转移到更高水平的护理中。
Korkmas呼吁社区帮助减缓病毒的传播。
“请帮助保护你的邻居，帮助保护你的同事，帮助保护我们的社区免受病毒的传播。柯克马斯写道:“戴上面具，保持社交距离，洗手，请限制聚会。”。“你是阻止传播的第一线，我们需要你的帮助!”
密苏里州浸礼会医疗中心和圣路易斯巴恩斯犹太医院的医生肯尼斯·雷米(Kenneth Remy)上周在推特上发布了一段视频，展示了一名即将接受呼吸机治疗的患者的情况。
“这就是你一分钟呼吸40次的样子，”他写道。“我希望你生命的最后时刻不要这样。”
在过去的10天里，这座城市的死亡和住院人数创下了纪录圣路易斯邮报报告。雷米把这段视频当成了教学瞬间。
“这很严重，”他说。“我恳求你，请实践预防措施，以减少COVID疾病的传播，以便我们能够有效地为你和你的亲人预防疾病。”
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医务人员正在为一名冠状静脉瘘患者准备插管程序
波特兰缅因医疗中心的医生丹·迈耶告诉美国广播公司波特兰分公司，医疗保健工作者已经目睹死亡和痛苦将近九个月了，他们筋疲力尽，士气低落WMTW。
随着人们继续忽视公众，困难变得更加复杂健康措施，迈耶说。
“当你遇到这些情况时，作为一名卫生保健工作者，这只会让事情变得更加困难，我真的很担心这个国家的卫生保健工作者会发生什么...他们在倦怠、健康和感恩方面面临的挑战有很长的路要走，”迈耶说。
国家过敏和传染病研究所主任安东尼·福奇回应了这些请求，敦促美国人尽量减少感恩节庆祝活动。
“现在牺牲可以拯救生命...让我们的未来更加光明，”福奇在周三的“早安美国”节目中说。
卡拉汉·奥黑尔/路透社
医护人员准备在病人房间内轮换使用呼吸机的病人
北卡罗莱纳州中央大学周二公布了一项研究结果，显示77%的北卡罗莱纳州人计划与来自家庭以外的人一起过感恩节。北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的美国广播公司下属机构称，邻近县的住院率上升了69%WTVD报告。
“这让我极其难过。我只是担心我自己的团队，因为我的团队现在必须更加努力地工作，”洛克·卡尔普，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的重症监护室护士经理，告诉WTVD。
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在新冠肺炎重症监护室，医务人员正在为病人准备插管程序
该医院的肺部和危重病科主任香农·卡森警告说，如果感恩节不遵循健康指南，未来的假期也可能会被毁了。
卡森说:“不要让一天温暖的家庭聚会变成重症监护室的圣诞节。”。“就是不值得。”
Health care workers speak out as COVID-19 cases surge
Health care workers across the country arepleading with the publicto follow COVID-19 guidelines as thenation struggles to containanother wave of the virus.
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19reached 260,000 on Wednesday, and almost every state in the U.S. is experiencing an increased rate of infection, according to Johns Hopkins University.
At the Pablo Pinto General Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas, about 90 miles west of Dallas, doctors and nurses are "struggling to transfer patients to higher levels of care," the hospital's CEO, Ross Korkmas, wrote on a statement posted to Facebook Tuesday.
Both the intensive care unit and COVID-19 unit at the hospital are full, and more patients are currently admitted than ever before, making it difficult for patients in need to be transferred to higher levels of care, he said.
Korkmas called on the community to help slow the spread of the virus.
"Please help protect your neighbor, help protect your coworkers, help protect OUR community from the spread of a virus. Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and please limit gatherings," Korkmas wrote. "You are the front line to stop the spread and we need your help!"
Kenneth Remy, a doctor at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, posted a video to Twitter last week showing what it's like for a patient who is about to be placed on a ventilator.
"This is what it looks like when you breathe 40 times a minute," he wrote. "I hope that the last moments of your life don’t look like this."
The city has seen record numbers of deaths and hospitalizations in the past 10 days, theSt. Louis Post-Dispatchreported. Remy used the video as a teaching moment.
"This is serious," he said. "I beg you, please practice the precautions to reduce transmission of COVID disease so that we can effectively prevent disease for you and your loved ones."
Health care workers have been witnessing death and suffering for nearly nine months now, leaving them burned out and with low morale, Dan Meyer, a doctor at Maine Medical Center in Portland, told ABC Portland affiliateWMTW.
The difficulties are compounded as people continue to ignore publichealthmeasures, Meyer said.
"When you encounter those situations, it just makes it so much more difficult as a health care worker, and I really worry about what’s happening to health care workers in this country ... the challenge they face in burnout and wellness and gratitude goes a long way,” Meyer said.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci echoed those pleas, urging Americans to keep Thanksgiving celebrations as small as possible.
"A sacrifice now could save lives ... and make the future much brighter as we get through this," Fauci said on "Good Morning America" Wednesday.
North Carolina Central University on Tuesday released results of a study that showed 77% of North Carolinians plan to spend Thanksgiving with people from outside their home. Hospitalizations in neighboring counties are up by 69%, ABC Durham, North Carolina, affiliateWTVDreported.
"It makes me extremely sad. I just worry about my own team, because my team now has to step up and work harder," Loc Culp, an ICU nurse manager at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, told WTVD.
The hospital's pulmonary and critical care division chief, Shannon Carson, warned that if health guidelines aren't followed on Thanksgiving, future holidays could be ruined as well.
"Don't make one day of warm family gathering turn into a Christmas in the intensive care unit," Carson said. "It's just not worth it."
