Posted on 04/04/2020 10:26:39 AM PDT by USA Conservative
My wife’s sister is that way. I’m sure glad I got the pick of the litter.
I have thought about this, and I think there might possibly be two additional factors:
1.) Hospitals don’t want to risk giving it to people who might get sick and die from it the same as you or I wouldn’t want to get someone sick if we had it.
2.) Is there going to be a legal assault on the medical community due to people catching it in hospitals? I don’t know, but given the legal profession in this country, I wouldn’t rule it out.
Yes, that’s right. Because hospitals are only doing treatment of COVID19 respiratory failure and ER services. All other types of medical care are being suspended. Otherwise, if people were sitting in doctors’ waiting rooms, the potential for the spread of the virus would be increased.
What is happening in your area is also depended upon whether it is in a metropolitan area. For instance, I live in a more rural area of MD where our local hospital always sends ICU patients to Baltimore or Wilmington DE. Our county hospital isn’t capable of treating hundreds of ICU patients. Thankfully, we don’t have a lot of COVID patients yet, but both those cities I mentioned are dealing with hundreds of cases. The big city hospitals cannot take any other additonal patients from outside the city. The stay-at-home keeps the virus from quickly spreading through the rural areas so as to not totally overwhelm the emergency capacity of the state’s major hospital centers.
I am in San Francisco Bay area.
No sirens are being heard and I within walking distance to Goid Samaritan.
I know what you are saying but, what I am seeing is just weird.
I am so angry knowing so many friends who lost their jobs and probably won’t return when CCP-19 ends
Also many friends in retail and restaurants who businesses will never return as it would require a ton of capital to startup and even then they would need cash flow for wages, utilities rent etc.
They are also horrified that even if they could reopen they would go into “startup “ mode.
They and the rest of had happy lives and were looking forward to the future.
Now they don’t even have a way to plan for the future because no one knows when this will end and then there is round 2 in the fall.
Some food for thought:
2 weeks ago today the U.S. had a total of 17,000 total Coronavirus cases and had experienced a total of 229 deaths.
That was 2 weeks ago. Just 14 days.
Yesterday we had 32,000 NEW CASES for a total caseload of 274,000. Yesterday’s death total was about 1200 and the total deaths to date are 7000.
That is the data available to anyone laughing about empty hospitals. Those hospitals are preparing for April and May not today or yesterday. They are preparing for the worst and it is coming.
Don’t fool yourself. Things are slowing down but not nearly fast enough. April and probably into May are going to be very bad.
That’s been my observation too. I work in the pacu, elective surgeries have been postponed, our hours were cut this week. I was called off all week. Last day I worked, on call Tue night, med/surg was only half full. Tele was full though, as well as the ICU. Ed only had 40 pts usually by that time 70-80.only 11 admits in ed. Usually we are holding 20-40.
No visitors allowed in the hospital, only exception is for laboring women.
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:
Why can't people take a moment to edit what they post?
All that has to be done is control highlight and then delete. It's really tedious to read.
My granddaughter is an RN at a New Hampshire hospital and she just told us her hours are being reduced due to lack of work.
Of course, if we still had a REAL “Working Press” we wouldn’t need to send in citizen reporters to fill the gaps in the line.
It is very hard. Our friends and family have similar difficulties.
Still when you look at the list of options, being unemployed is a far better outcome than being laid out on an ICU bed with a tube stuck down your throat and a 20% chance of living. Had your governor not locked down the state early, you or friends or neighbors probably wouldn’t have even made it to a ICU bed because there wouldn’t have been any available.
What you have described just illustrates the point made repeatedly at the task force briefings. A majority of people are able to deal with this virus with their own good immune system. It’s the 25% that will have problems. However, that 25% is still an overwhelming number compared to available medical care. We only have a limited number of respiratory physicians and technicians. It is to give all the ill a chance of surviving given our resources.
Congratulations to you and California for keeping the curve flat!
Now, I want to know both sides of the stats..
How many NYs typically die monthly (no exceptions) 200? - 2019 Jan - April VS How many have died monthly Jan - April 2020
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/6551as_2010_final_population_&_mortality.pdf
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