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Winter storms in the United States are also playing a role in paralyzing the
entire country and leaving millions of people without power. This has sent many
healthcare providers into a panic as they scramble to protect freezers full of
temperature-sensitive COVID-19 vaccines, which need to be stored at extremely
low temperatures to prevent them from spoiling.
In 2019, Grete Porteous, who works as an anesthesiologist and emergency
medicine specialist at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center said that
people are so used to enjoying an uninterrupted supply of power that they are
extremely surprised to know that healthcare facilities become fragile during power
outages.
A public health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic only intensifies the risks
of power outages. On top of this, hospitals, public health departments, and other
local health care facilities are already on limited resources and manpower. Many
doctors and healthcare providers are not used to treating patients with limited
power and may have to navigate it on the fly when they are already running out of
resources. Shelters for people, such as warming centers in Texas, could potentially
risk spreading COVID-19 without power, even though these shelters are critical to
keep people from freezing during the winter.
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