Children’s hospitals are facing the same supply shortages and testing backlogs that have been hampering adult hospitals nationally. “We have a lot of frightened people, and they are streaming toward our doors.'
“I think there is a lot of stress, and part of the stress comes from the fact that we are dealing with something new,” Zerr said. “We don’t understand the full epidemiology of this virus. We don’t understand the extent to which asymptomatic people may be able to transmit it.”
As the coronavirus spread nationally, Children’s Wisconsin — like many research hospitals — had developed its own in-house COVID-19 test that can deliver results within hours rather than days. But due to national shortages of swabs and reagent chemicals needed to complete the tests, the hospital cannot test every patient who has symptoms — or every physician who may have been exposed, the doctors said.
“At Children’s Wisconsin, our focus during this outbreak is on protecting our highest risk patients while also preserving our staff and supplies so we can continue to provide essential care to all children,” Cobert said. “It was scary,” Fernandez said. “This was our only real shot at doing something that could save her, and it seemed like the coronavirus situation was going to keep us from it.”
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