https://kfor.com/news/health/coronavirus/oklahoma-city-hospitals-reach-tier-3-of-surge-plan-doctors-concerned-about-spread-during-holidays/What this means:
Bratzler says more cases could be due to the fact that some testing sites closed during the ice storm. Regardless, metro hospitals are filling up. They've hit
Tier 3 of the state's surge plan, which means they can limit surgeries to make room for COVID patients.
"The idea is we look at patients who are absolutely going to need critical care, or have a prolonged length of stay and for whom putting off of a surgery is in no way going to impact their outcome if we prolong it for six to eight weeks," Dr. Cameron Mantor with OU Health said. "There are other groups, though we call it elective, need operative procedures done to try to prevent problems later that are outpatients and can be done and go home and not impact our hospital care."