As U.S. citizens get confirmed coronavirus cases, hospitals worldwide report critical staff shortages and have reached their maximum capacity in patients.

Those shortages may only grow worse in the weeks to come, as people just keep flowing into hospitals with more and more positive cases.

In November of 2020, more than 90,000 people were in hospitals at given amounts of time. Hospitals have started to wonder if this chaotic and exhausting time will ever come to an end.

“There are no beds anywhere,” said Dr. Matthew Klee, who is under pressure to take patients throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota and has a full ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Mercy. “It’s become like a game of chess over the entire state.”

Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician at Brown University, emphasized the problem that staff working in hospitals everywhere are getting infected and that the U.S.needs to find a solution fast or even more staff are going to drop like flies.

“Health care workers are watching their colleagues get sick, they’re worn out and tired and scared,” Ranney said.

Dr. Henry Walke, the Covid-19 incident manager for CDC (Centers for Disease Control Prevention), explained what the sudden burst in covid patients is doing for the agency.

“The agency is alarmed by the exponential increase in cases and hospitalizations and deaths,” said Walke

Hospitals are doing all that they can do to open up beds and get patients out as quickly as possible in order to bring new ones in.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has hope for hospitalization. “We’re not going to live through the nightmare of overwhelmed hospitals again,” Cuomo said.