The COVID-19 pandemic is an untraveled road, even for those trained in emergencies. While getting potential coronavirus patients where they need to go, ambulance services are making changes.
Paratech Ambulance, which covers the Milwaukee area through Madison to the Illinois border, has transported more than 700 possible COVID-19 patients, with 150 being confirmed, since early March.
“On a daily basis we’re encountering patients, at least we believe have a high potential of having COVID,” Ambulance Operations Director Chris Walters said. “The last thing we want to do is spread the transmission of disease to patients that don’t already have it.”