'We need your help now more than ever': Cleveland Clinic & University Hospitals address COVID surge

COVID surge impacting Northeast Ohio's hospitals. “We need your help now more than ever. There is nothing more important to us than the safe care of our community. What you do now with us will impact how we make it through this pandemic together.” Those were the words Tuesday morning from Dr. Daniel Simon, President, Academic & External Affairs and Chief Scientific Officer of University Hospitals. He was among the medical experts who joined forces to help sound the alarm during a morning press conference alongside Cleveland Clinic officials as COVID cases surge throughout Northeast Ohio. “Our emergency departments are overcrowded," Dr. Simon continued. "Our caregivers are working overtime and are exhausted. We have more COVID-positive patients now in our hospitals than ever before. Currently, there are 394 total hospitalized COVID patients in our system. 19 percent are in the intensive care unit.” READ MORE: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/hea...