My sister is in the hospital this afternoon. She presented at the local ER with flu-like symptoms, but very low blood-oxygen. Tests showed that she has pneumonia, with no trace of flu. Doctors sent her to hospital for treatment and observation.
The small community hospital in Lebanon, Oregon has no open beds today. The larger hospital in Albany, 25 miles away, has none either. The only hospital in the central-south Willamette Valley with open beds today is in the Corvallis Regional Medical Center, 35 miles away.
It seems area hospitals are filled up with flu patients.
Our ER had a record day last week. Its starting to burn off though.