Nassau reinstates pandemic triage protocols to keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed
Executive Laura Curran says the county is putting its "viral pandemic triage protocol" back in place.
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Jan 7, 2021, 6:03 PM
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County is taking new steps to deal with the surge in coronavirus
cases and keep hospitals from getting
overwhelmed again.
Executive
Laura Curran says the county is putting its "viral pandemic triage
protocol" back in place.
“Our EMS operators, that
includes our PD medics, volunteer fire service and emergency service, they are
already experiencing elevated call volumes and we expect as numbers go up, that will continue," says
Curran.
Curran says the protocol requires EMS operators to
do a COVID-19 screening and to only transport patients that meet the criteria
for COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Curran
says this will safeguard the hospital capacities and protect our first
responders.
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