Tarrant County (WBAP/KLIF) – As a COVID-19 surge continues across the country and across the metroplex, a long-planned ‘worst-case scenario’ plan of action was enacted this week by Tarrant County’s MedStar EMS service.
The agency used its ambulances to transport patients from a crowded hospital in downtown Fort Wort to less crowded facilities elsewhere, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
MedStar’s Matt Zavadsky says that the agency began planning back in May with regional hospital systems to prepare for a hospital ‘surge strategy,’ which until now did not have to be implemented.
He says the planning was for a possible ‘tsnami of COVID patients.” And now, over 9 months into the pandemic, as COVID hospitalizations rapidly rise, Zavadsky says, “It might be now.”
Zavadsky told the FWST, “The current trajectory is such that now we may be seeing sort of that tsunami as part of what most people are referring to now as the second wave.”
(Copyright 2020 WBAP/KLIF 24/7 News. This report contains material from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
