Last week the Army scrambled to set up a 250-bed field hospital next to Seattle's baseball stadium. This week, the state decided it doesn't need it. But Gov. Jay Inslee warned that 'we have to keep our guard up. … We haven't beat this virus yet.'
Last week, the Army scrambled to set up a 250-bed field hospital in an events center next to Seattle's baseball stadium. This week, the state has decided it doesn't need it.
It's an indication of how dramatically the forecast for hospital demand has improved in Washington, which saw the country's first known COVID-19 deaths at the end of February. In mid-March, when the state first requested the Army's help, projections showed COVID-19 patients overwhelming local hospitals. But with aggressive social distancing rules and a clearing-out of many non-COVID-19 patients from the system, that fear has receded.
"We have to keep our guard up," Inslee said."We haven't beat this virus yet, and until we do, it has the potential to spread rapidly if we don't continue the measures we've put in place." The Army field hospital may have been more trouble than it was worth. Cassie Sauer, CEO of the Washington State Hospital Association, says transferring civilian patients to an Army facility involves"a ton of logistics," and just setting up the field hospital meant multiple meetings every day for high-level state planners, many of whom had more urgent matters to attend to.
The state is now focused on building up its own overflow capacity, independent of the federal government. It just completed a deal to lease a recently shuttered medical center in central Washington, while cities and counties continue to expand housing for patients with milder cases of COVID-19.
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