Green Bay hospitals are 97 percent capacity, according to Green Bay Metro Fire Chief David Litton during a Common Council Special Meeting on Tuesday, March 17.
During the meeting, Chief Litton explained that on Saturday, March 14, the City of Green Bay activated the Emergency Operations Center to Level 4. On the same day, the chief says emergency personnel requested additional protective personal equipment for first responders. Chief Litton says that equipment is on short supply “and at some point in the near future we will run out of these supplies.”
According to Chief Litton, area ambulance services have instituted a ‘no-transport’ policy for non-critical patients who believe they have coronavirus. This means that, at the discretion of the paramedics, patients who are in non-life-threatening condition will not be transported to the emergency room.