Hospitals in Ohio are seeing so many patients with COVID-19 that need to be admitted, that they are transferring patients between hospitals and hospital systems to keep up, doctors said during a rare Monday coronavirus briefing hosted by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.

Hospital admissions rose from 600 to 4,000 in 60 days, said Dr. Robert Wyllie, chief of medical operations for the Cleveland Clinic.

All hospitals are becoming stressed, Wyllie said. With 970 employees in the Cleveland Clinic out because of illness or quarantine, it isn’t just bed space or equipment taxed by the unflattened curve, but having enough employees to take care of sick people.

Hospitals are already starting to limit their other care so staff can focus on treating the influx of patients, and other emergency care.

Even if field hospitals were opened, there isn’t enough staff to take care of patients, Wyllie said.

Members of the public are being asked to limit their interactions with others to help decrease cases, especially during the Thanksgiving holiday.

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