Posted on 04/04/2020 10:26:39 AM PDT by USA Conservative
After all kinds of complaining that his state of New York needs ventilators, oh so many ventilators because there aren’t nearly enough in New York, has refused help from Remington when they offered to send ventilators to New York.
But as we previously reported the Democrats in New York not up to the task of handling the Coronavirus threat.
Now there are some conservative commentators who questioned how busy American hospitals actually are. On Twitter, photos and video clips purporting to show nearly empty hospital parking lots. More of t he same on a YouTube “citizen reporters” video.
https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1243302444970520578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1243302444970520578&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Ftruth-or-fiction-citizen-reporters-go-out-and-record-videos-about-allegedly-empty-hospitals-in-coronavirus-epicenter%2F Todd Staines is also in the video compilation that shows empty hospitals.
Video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBgXJpje74&feature=emb_title
In the comment section on the video one person who is allegedly a medical representative wrote:
I’ll tell you this I’m a medical rep and I’ve been into one of the largest epicenters for disease control and quarantine the world sends their sickest patients in the hospital I’ve gone into all four times is a ghost town. I maybe saw 4 patients walking on two different floors. Wish I could show you some pictures on here of lights that were completely off down hallways and main hallways completely bare of anyone
Lisa Boothe a Fox News contributor also questioned how many deaths are really being caused by COVID-19 and whether hospitals are really full.
Video below:
I’ll tell you this I’m a medical rep and I’ve been into one of the largest epicenters for disease control and quarantine the world sends their sickest patients in the hospital I’ve gone into all four times is a ghost town. I maybe saw 4 patients walking on two different floors. Wish I could show you some pictures on here of lights that were completely off down hallways and main hallways completely bare of anyone
Lisa Boothe a Fox News contributor also questioned how many deaths are really being caused by COVID-19 and whether hospitals are really full.
Video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWm0ytokzOI&feature=emb_title This video is where the original hospital footage was aired via Sky News back on March, 22nd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J60fQr0GWo&feature=emb_title
PolitiFact ruled that the news of empty hospital are fake. We ain’t gonna give our opinion on this we gonna leave our fans to express their opinion in the comment section below.
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Covid patients don’t go into ER, stupid blogger!
Bkmrk
What is suggests to me is that much of the money we spend on medical procedures is unnecessary. Elective means that someone could live just fine without the attention.
Some critical work is being deferred but it will not for long and the backlog will cause problems.
It’s strange that no one is connecting the dots. Most hospitals do a majority of their work in nonessential medical care (ie. not life and death) and only a fraction of their service is emergency. When a state cancels all nonessential medical care then all that’s left is the ER/ICU.
HOWEVER, in a pandemic this is required because of the contagious nature of the virus (you don’t want well patients exposed) and that with the ER/ICU filled to capacity, they require staff from the nonessential areas.
To highlight the problem with keeping a hospital uncontaminated in a pandemic just read the story about the USS Comfort today. Several COVID19 patients were mistakenly sent to the USS COMFORT so now this medical facility that was to be reserved for trauma patients not related to the pandemic, is now contaminated as well.
PS. If you want a good idea of the crisis, don’t look at parking lots but at the statistics of how many patients are in the ICU. Then compare that number to the number of ICU beds in that particular hospital. I guarantee if you compare those numbers in NYC you will see a major crisis.
“””””””””Hospitals are in full Corona virus mode
The fewer admissions in the next two weeks, the better.
As for right now, No one wants to go to a hospital right now no one in their right mind wants to go to an ER. Hospital staff with no business in the ER are not allowed in the ER
Very few admissions from the ER
All elective surgeries have been cancelled
MDs are pressured right now to send everyone home””””””””
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My wife has Stage 4 cancer and was supposed to go in for scans next week. They called to cancel.
A doctor she sees from another hospital just calls her now instead of having her come in.
If they are turning away patients like that it is for a very good reason.
Why should I take videos from my fellow citizens with a grain of salt because the MSM is lying? There are lies, and then there is the truth.
By having friends or other private video folks back them up!...how can we confirm cbs, abc, cnn are accurate? We can’t!
My niece is a nurse at a NYC hospital.....she says it’s pretty damn busy....
It wasn’t a mistake....it was a push with a “and we won’t take them back and since your ship is now contaminated we’ll just send the rest of the covids with no insurance.”
Thanks for posting it.
I credit the young lady for providing something informative, and ignore the do-nothing critics.
Lol. Dumblegunner is a troubled soul
What about it ‘sucks’? What would you do to make it better?
It isn’t just the numbers.... an ICU may just be 2/3rds full but if half are covid positives then the work just to get into and out of ppe and the steps one takes to care for these patients doubles the work load of an RN vs the “normal” icu patients who may also be high acuity and many hospitals won’t assign these patients as “1 to 1”’s when they need to be so rn’s are trying to take care of 2 covids patients which is like taking care of 4...all the while with management on their backs saying get out on time but be sure to complete all the documentation steps.
It is discouraging.
It isn’t just the numbers.... an ICU may just be 2/3rds full but if half are covid positives then the work just to get into and out of ppe and the steps one takes to care for these patients doubles the work load of an RN vs the “normal” icu patients who may also be high acuity and many hospitals won’t assign these patients as “1 to 1”’s when they need to be so rn’s are trying to take care of 2 covids patients which is like taking care of 4...all the while with management on their backs saying get out on time but be sure to complete all the documentation steps.
It is discouraging.
I am an emergency medicine physician at a level one trauma hospital in Detroit. I cannot speak for the rest of Michigan, however all hospitals in the Detroit area are packed inpatient with CORVID patients, especially the ICUs.
Oddly the emergency department at our facility is under capacity because patients are staying away. It may seem slow for awhile, them we will have 2-4 “respiratory codes” arrive via EMS that will wreck havoc. Usually that is the time that some of the known COVID patients in the department awaiting beds drop their blood pressures, become hypoxic, or arrest.
For the record, I have found hydroxychloroquine to be effective if taken early. Unfortunately that is usually not the case, since most patients arrive in advanced stages.
Here’s an account you don’t have - a real one. The little hospital in my Washington county currently has 15 patients with WuFlu. Two in ER, out of 8 rooms. They wouldn’t tell me about the ICU capacity, or how many are there - let’s just say they are concerned about things still according to the nursing staff that I have interacted with.
Oh, and thank God, our curve is flattening. We social distance normally to a greater extent up here.
Great post.
Blessings to you.
I don't think this is true.
I had cancer surgery at Mayo Clinic about 2 weeks ago. I was one of the last non-Covid patients they treated, before surgery was stopped.
When they told me that I was having an elective surgery, I told them there was nothing elective about it -- it was to remove a cancerous tumor. That was when they told me the medical definition of elective surgery, which is any operation that is scheduled ahead of time with a doctor.
So by that definition, I had elective surgery. Even though I didn't particularly want it, but knew I had to have it as a lifesaving measure.
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