OMAHA- The Midwest is breaking COVID-19 records everyday, and doctors like Dr. Daniel Johnson of Nebraska Medicine are sharing a dire warning on social media about these trends. Johnson wrote that if the state continues to fail, more Nebraskans will die, and stated that Nebraska has had the fifth worst outbreak in the nation. Most alarming is that if these trends continue, hospitals will run out of capacity in just three quick weeks.

“We must do everything we can to reverse these trends. If things get completely out of control, every family in Nebraska will be affected either by a death or by serious illness” wrote Johnson. “The doubling time for COVID-19 hospitalizations in Omaha is currently 21 days. We currently have 372 COVID patients in the hospital. This doubling time means that in 3 weeks there will be 744 COVID patients needing the hospital, and in six weeks, there will be 1,488 COVID-19 patients needing the hospital. For perspective, the Omaha metro currently has 268 unoccupied, staffed hospital beds. The math is extremely worrisome”

Read the full letter by Dr. Johnson, M.D. HERE

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