(NO MUSIC) HEALTH MINUTE: KNOW WHEN TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM

A “tsunami” of patients. That’s how one doctor described the rush of people coming into his downtown Atlanta, Georgia emergency room during this current Covid-19 surge. It’s a problem frontline healthcare workers are seeing across the US. To help with overcrowding, doctors want you to know when to go to the ER & when to stay home and call a doctor.