A doctor who oversees an emergency room at a Bronx hospital hard-hit by an onslaught of COVID-19 patients and who himself was infected with the coronavirus says it is time to lift the lockdown so those suffering from other ailments can be treated. Daniel G. Murphy, a physician who chairs the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx, called the pandemic ‘the worst health-care disaster of my 30-year career, because of its intensity, duration and potential for lasting impact.' But he believes that ‘a significant degree of natural herd immunity' has also been developed which can allow the public to resume normal life.

‘The lasting impact is what worries me the most,' Murphy writes in the New York Post. Daniel G. Murphy, a physician who chairs the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx, thinks it's time to reopen the economy Murphy writes that the number of COVID-19 patients being admitted to his hospital has decreased in recent weeks. An ambulance is seen above outside St. Barnabas in The Bronx on April 15 ‘And it's why I now believe we should end the lockdown and agen judi rapidly get back to work.' Murphy writes that ‘the wave [of coronavirus patients being admitted into hospitals] has crested.' ‘At 1pm on April 7, the COVID-19 arrivals slowed down,' he writes. ‘It was a discrete, noticeable event. ‘Stretchers became available by 5pm, and the number of arriving COVID-19 patients dropped below the number discharged, transferred or agen judi deceased.' Murphy writes that this drawdown was particularly striking given that his hospital serves a poor community where residents work low-paying ‘essential' jobs and do not have the option to socially distance themselves from others.

‘Nevertheless, the wave passed over us, peaked and subsided,' he writes. ‘The way this transpired tells me the ebb and flow had more to do with the natural course of the outbreak than it did with the lockdown.' Murphy also says that hospitals need to resume treating non-COVID-19 patients. ‘While the inpatient units remain busy with sick COVID-19 patients, our ER has been quiet for more than a week,' he writes. An EMT wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) prepares to unload COVID-19 transfer patients at the Montefiore Medical Center Wakefield Campus in The Bronx on April 6 ‘We usually average 240 patients a day. ‘For the last week, we averaged fewer than 100.

That means our patients in this diverse, judi slot low-income community are afraid to come to the ER for non-COVID care.' The physician noted that the number of 911 ambulance runs in the city has declined from a high of 6,527 on March 30 just almost half that figure - 3,320 - on April 18. Murphy writes that the longer people are forced to remain at home, the more those suffering from non-COVID 19 conditions are at risk of dying without receiving treatment in a hospital.