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Houston ICU capacity could soon be exceeded as COVID-19 hospitalizations worsen, TMC projects
MSN ^ | 06/25/2020 | By Zach Despart

Posted on 06/25/2020 12:01:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Medical Center released the most aggressive COVID model to date, showing base ICU base capacity full by Saturday, and surge capacity exhausted by July 8 if current rates of hospitalization persist.

A TMC model also predicts ICU surge capacity — extra, temporary beds and equipment used in emergencies — could be exceeded as soon as July 6 if the steep rate of new COVID hospitalizations continues, the most aggressive modeling to date.

Eleven leaders of the system’s member hospitals and medical schools said in a joint statement that COVID-related admissions were increasing at an “alarming rate,” stretching the capacity of ICU units. Texas Children’s Hospital this week began admitting adult patients to handle the surge.

“If this trend continues, our hospital system capacity will become overwhelmed, leading us to make difficult choices of delaying much-needed non-COVID care to accommodate a greater number of COVID patients,” the group wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; houston; icu; scoffers; texas
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1 posted on 06/25/2020 12:01:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Could!


2 posted on 06/25/2020 12:02:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
BFD!!!

There are hundreds of thousands of new ventilators that were never used.

The rest of the damned hospital is empty. How hard is it to convert another floor to and ICU wing? You have doctors and nurses sitting on their asses contemplating their navels.

3 posted on 06/25/2020 12:04:23 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: dfwgator

If!


4 posted on 06/25/2020 12:04:30 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: SeekAndFind

Love to know the demographics. Protesters, rioters, illegals etc


5 posted on 06/25/2020 12:04:33 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: SeekAndFind

All this time and they haven’t done anything to prepare?


6 posted on 06/25/2020 12:05:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many have underlying conditions.
How many have died.


7 posted on 06/25/2020 12:05:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: SeekAndFind

We heard this same song playing about four months ago.

The riots are waning, it must be time to bring back the virus for another go-round.


8 posted on 06/25/2020 12:05:16 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: SeekAndFind

“aggressive modeling” = “intense B.S. shoveling”


9 posted on 06/25/2020 12:05:53 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SeekAndFind

Building the ability to immediately expand the ICU capacity at hospitals in crisis should be the number two priority of the CDC, etc.

Number one should be the application of proven strategies to protect people in care centers.

This is such common sense I doubt it’s being done.


10 posted on 06/25/2020 12:06:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: teeman8r

As in “Monkeys COULD fly out of my butt”


11 posted on 06/25/2020 12:06:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Completely disingenuous headline — the last sentence — may need to delay nonCOVID care means that they are not overwhelmed. I give you that they may need to repurpose some beds but it is not as there is not capacity


12 posted on 06/25/2020 12:06:15 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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Eleven leaders of the system’s member hospitals...

How many hospitals does Houston have outside of the system's member hospitals that still have room?

Sounds like fear porn to me.

13 posted on 06/25/2020 12:06:25 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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14 posted on 06/25/2020 12:06:47 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m counting on most GOP Govs like our Utah Gov to cave to this media pressure. When it comes to caving, the Stupid Party NEVER disappoints!


15 posted on 06/25/2020 12:06:58 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: JennysCool

Exactly! I read the increase in capacity was affected by all of the returning regular patients which were prohibited to enter the hospitals previously because of Covid 19. It is all BS.


16 posted on 06/25/2020 12:08:45 PM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: SeekAndFind

42 people died from COVID-19 yesterday, in the entire state of Texas. It’s a big state.

This is fear-mongering.


17 posted on 06/25/2020 12:08:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is TX an anti-HCQ prophylactic state, like CA, OR, and WA?


18 posted on 06/25/2020 12:09:02 PM PDT by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmmm. Didn’t know The Movie Channel did pandemic forecasts. Maybe that’s why they charge so much.


19 posted on 06/25/2020 12:09:21 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: SeekAndFind
A TMC model

Stopped reading right there.

20 posted on 06/25/2020 12:09:47 PM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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