Following the first US cases of Covid-19 in January, the Trump administration and many state governors considered how to increase hospital surge capacity and spare protective equipment. In anticipation of this problem, the Trump administration recommended that patients cancel elective health procedures to help with health care capacity nationwide. While the lack of elective procedures gives hospitals and their staff greater response capacity, it is coming at a significant cost to our nation’s health care providers — especially those focused on the treatment of children.
Upstate News Headlines
- Weekend Things to Do: Greenville South Carolina
- South Carolina Reports 3,567 New Cases as DHEC Gives COVID-19 Vaccine Update
- Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: 'Even as we grieved, we grew.'
- Vice President Harris: A new chapter opens in US politics
- LIVE: Biden sworn in as America's 46th president, Harris becomes first female VP
- Carolina prisons get first wave of COVID-19 vaccine doses
- US Surgeon General Jerome Adams asked to step down by Biden team
- ‘Tiger King’ Star Joe Exotic Expected Pardon From President Trump, Books Limo
- SCEL: No Tuesday winner, Mega Millions jackpot now up to $970 million
- The Latest: Biden calls on Americans to overcome divisions
- Read the letters outgoing presidents left for their successors in the Oval Office
