Posted on 03/20/2020 7:28:07 PM PDT by NRx
New York State’s long-feared surge of coronavirus cases has begun, thrusting the medical system toward a crisis point.
In a startlingly quick ascent, officials reported on Friday that the state was closing in on 8,000 positive tests, about half the cases in the country. The number was 10 times higher than what was reported earlier in the week.
In the Bronx, doctors at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center say they have only a few remaining ventilators for patients who need them to breathe. In Brooklyn, doctors at Kings County Hospital Center say they are so low on supplies that they are reusing masks for up to a week, slathering them with hand sanitizer between shifts.
Some of the jump in New York’s cases can be traced to significantly increased testing, which the state began this week. But the escalation, and the response, could offer other states a glimpse of what might be in store if the virus continues to spread. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday urged residents to stay indoors and ordered nonessential businesses to keep workers home.
State officials have projected that the number of coronavirus cases in New York will peak in early May. Both the governor and Mayor Bill de Blasio have used wartime metaphors and analogies to paint a grim picture of what to expect. Officials have said the state would need to double its available hospital beds to 100,000 and could be short as many as 25,000 ventilators.
As it prepares for the worst-case projections, the state is asking retired health care workers to volunteer to help. The city is considering trying to turn the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan into a makeshift hospital.
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Dirt cheap at Walmart.
Yes.
Exactly. The media NEVER differentiates between people showing up at the hospital to get checked out vs. the ones that are showing up because they're actually sick. The media reaction to this entire thing is shameful times 100.
Yup. The number of deaths in NYS and in the entire country went down on Friday.
Do you have a source for that?
Hey DoodleBob - the numbers are looking good on my model. I am actually a little bit excited.
Yes, clinical experience
Put an electric fence around the whole city before they all try to get out!
I wonder how many people contracted the virus by standing in line to get tested...
You have clinical experience with COVID-19?
If all your hospitals are empty, I have to ask what kind of hospitals do you have privileges?
The hospitals that will be getting critical patients have cut their OR sked down to 25% from their usual volume. Unfortunately a lot of transplants are taking place.
Think about that, why all of a sudden are their available organs? Maybe hospitals need beds. These are difficult times.
Either we have the statistics that support the premise, that the hospitals are getting deluged in NYC, or we don't.
The article doesn't offer any supporting statistics.
Yes
Headline said first death in such and such county N.Y. due to virus
Deep in the article the person was in the nineties
Did it every occur to you that there are hotspots and non-hotspots. I have also completed an extensive survey of my state. I have both extensive administrative and clinical experience.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
USA Confirmed Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance
3/18 150 +41 (from 3/17)
3/19 207 +57
3/20 256 +49
Oh, please, we would not transplant an organ with a known infectious disease. Transplants are going up as a percentage as elective cases are being forbidden.
Today.
The virus never sleeps...
[I believe daily number of COVID-19 deaths ... in the U.S. went down today. ]
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
On the bright side, only 64 in critical* condition. I suspect some of the deaths are of people who never made it to the hospital.
* Not sure what critical means in this context. Does merely needing a ventilator qualify as mild? Does critical mean needing more than a ventilator, whatever it is? As a side note, ventilators have progressed well beyond the iron lung contraption I remember from decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventilator
“Probably the Blob is too big now:”
Perhaps, yes. So do San Fran and Chicago before the spikes there that will come.
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