Hospital ICUs lean on telemedicine amid U.S. COVID-19 crisis

Patricia Pittman, director of the Mullan Institute of Health, was quoted in this recent Reuters article addressing Hospital ICUs leaning on telemedicine amid the pandemic. Read the full article here. 
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​"Even if beds were available, qualified staff are hard to find. It’s estimated that 43 states, including South Carolina, face a shortage of highly trained ICU doctors, known as intensivists, according to researchers at George Washington University. These shortages may worsen with hospitalizations in many states predicted to peak this fall, when the coronavirus mixes with flu season, according to Patricia Pittman, director of the university’s Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity."