美国医生：我们现在正在战争中，半个的国家却没有参加，没有人可以拯救我们！

导读：懂王特赦了一只“土耳其（火鸡）”，但是美国的新冠敢死队却没有放过美国，反而发动了“感恩节攻势”，而且随后还将发动“圣诞节和新年攻势”！美媒华盛顿邮报这篇报道说明了“抗疫战士”的无奈与绝望！（漫画是另外配图，与原文无关）

在亚利桑那州，一名疲惫不堪的医生惊恐地看着人们涌入机场，涌向商店以进行黑色星期五抢购，因为知道其中一些人最终出现在他的急诊室只是时间问题。

在数百万美国人为了避免旅行和感恩节大聚会而忽略健康指导的几天之后，要说在假日周末的过程中有多少人被冠状病毒感染还为时过早。但是，随着旅行者回到已经受到该疾病沉重打击的社区的家中，全国各地的医院和卫生官员正为科学家戴夫·奥康纳所说的“在疾病暴发之上进行疾病暴发”做好准备。

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的病毒学家O'Connor说：“观看很痛苦。” “就像在远处看到两列火车，并知道它们将要对撞一样，但您无能为力，无法阻止它。”

科学家补充说：“由于人们为庆祝而做出的决定和合理化，我们将迎来非常黑暗的十二月。”

假期通常是一年中最繁忙的旅行时间之一，在大流行期间尤为紧迫。十一月份，约有400万美国人被诊断出患有冠状病毒，是上个月创下的先前记录的两倍。每天有超过2,000人死亡。尽管如此，感恩节前一天仍有超过100万人通过美国机场，这是自疫情爆发以来见到的旅客人数最多的地方。

约翰·霍普金斯大学健康安全中心的流行病学家凯特琳·里弗斯说，许多州没有在假日期间报告新的病例数，在报告延迟后，官方记录通常需要大约一周的时间才能赶上。

但在两到三周内，她说：“我完全希望在全国范围内，病例数，住院和死亡人数的趋势将继续保持新高。”

这个国家在假期周末已经取得了几个严峻的里程碑。在感恩节这一天，美国的住院人数首次超过90,000人。第二天，该国发生了1300万例。至少有九个州每千居民中就有一人死于冠状病毒。

同时，12月的假期临近。

奥康纳说：“希望人们能在圣诞节前后尽量减少风险，特别是如果有数据显示感恩节确实有害的话。”

对于亚利桑那州尤马市的海军退伍军人和急诊室医生克利冯·吉尔曼（Cleavon Gilman）来说，度假旅行的浪潮“是一记耳光”。

他说：“好像没有大流行发生。” “我们现在正在战争中，半个国家却没有参加。”

上周五，亚利桑那大学冠状病毒建模小组的成员向州卫生官员发出了紧急警告，预计该州将在12月初超过ICU的容量。

该小组在致公共卫生统计局局长史蒂文·贝利的信中写道：“如果不立即采取行动，那将有可能造成该州经历过的最严重自然灾害的灾难。” “这就像在没有疏散命令的情况下面临一场大森林大火。”

亚利桑那州没有在全州范围内使用面具的规定，并且该州许多地区的商家（包括在餐厅内的室内用餐）仍然开放。

吉尔曼说，他医院的重症监护室已经满员，无法转移新病人。当他回到家时，他的思绪回荡着人们喘着粗气的声音。他和他的同事精疲力尽，而且全国各地的案件激增，他担心他们无法应对感恩节之后的激增。

在威斯康星州拉克罗斯，冈德森卫生系统首席执行官斯科特·拉斯加伯（Scott Rathgaber）回应了这种担忧。他说：“我们不得不告诉我们勤奋的员工，‘没有人可以拯救我们’。”

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 In Arizona, a battle-weary doctor watched in horror as people flooded airports and flocked to stores for Black Friday sales, knowing it was only a matter of time before some of them wound up in his emergency room.

Days after millions of Americans ignored health guidance to avoid travel and large Thanksgiving gatherings, it’s still too soon to tell how many people became infected with the coronavirus over the course of the holiday weekend. But as travelers head home to communities already hit hard by the disease, hospitals and health officials across the country are bracing for what scientist Dave O’Connor called “a surge on top of a surge.”

“It is painful to watch,” said O’Connor, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Like seeing two trains in the distance and knowing they’re about to crash, but you can’t do anything to stop it.”

“Because of the decisions and rationalizations people made to celebrate,” the scientist added, “we’re in for a very dark December.”

The holiday, which is typically one of the busiest travel periods of the year, fell at a particularly dire time in the pandemic. Some 4 million Americans have been diagnosed with the coronavirus in November — twice the previous record, which was set last month. More than 2,000 people are dying every day. Despite that, over a million people passed through U.S. airports the day before Thanksgiving — the highest number of travelers seen since the start of the outbreak.

Many states did not report new case counts over the holiday, and it typically takes about a week for official records to catch up after reporting delays, said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

But in two to three weeks, she said, “I fully expect on a national level we will see those trends continue of new highs in case counts and hospitalizations and deaths.”

The nation has already notched several bleak milestones over the holiday weekend. On Thanksgiving Day, hospitalizations in the United States exceeded 90,000 people for the first time. The following day, the country hit 13 million cases. At least nine states have seen 1 in every 1,000 residents die of the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the December holidays are looming.

“Hopefully people will try to minimize their risks around Christmas, especially if there’s data that show Thanksgiving was really harmful,” O’Connor said.

To Cleavon Gilman, a Navy veteran and emergency room doctor in Yuma, Ariz., the wave of holiday travel was “a slap in the face.”

“It’s as if there’s not a pandemic happening,” he said. “We’re in a war right now, and half the country isn’t on board.”

On Friday, members of the University of Arizona coronavirus modeling team issued an urgent warning to state health officials, projecting that the state will exceed ICU capacity by the beginning of December.

“If action is not immediately taken, then it risks a catastrophe on a scale of the worst natural disaster the state has ever experienced,” the team wrote in a letter to Steven Bailey, chief of the Bureau of Public Health Statistics. “It would be akin to facing a major forest fire without evacuation orders.”

Arizona has no statewide mask mandate, and businesses in many parts of the state, including indoor dining at restaurants, remain open.

Gilman said the intensive care unit at his hospital is full and there’s nowhere to transfer new patients. When he’s home, his mind echoes with the sound of people gasping for breath. He and his colleagues are exhausted, and with cases spiking across the country, he worries there is no way they can handle the surge that will probably follow Thanksgiving 

In La Crosse, Wis., Gundersen Health System chief executive Scott Rathgaber echoed that fear. “We’ve had to tell our hard-working staff, ‘There’s no one out there to come rescue us,’” he said.