Coronavirus in N.Y.: ‘Deluge’ of Cases Begins Hitting Hospitals

NY Times ^ | 03-20-2020 | Staff

[kiryandil]

In a heavy-duty toxic fog on the jobsite, I supplement the N-95 with a muslin kitchen cloth that's 30 x 30.

Dirt cheap at Walmart.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes.

[JennysCool]

The frustrating thing is the article doesn’t tell you how many people need hospitalization. Only how many people have tested positive - not the same thing

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.

[FreeReign]

Let’s see. Last 24 hour period 12 deaths in New York State. 24 hours prior to that, 14. Once again poor math skills.

Yup. The number of deaths in NYS and in the entire country went down on Friday.

[DannyTN]

"If ou are not dead in 10 days (likely 7 - 8) you will likely be a recovered patient."

Do you have a source for that?

[gas_dr]

Hey DoodleBob - the numbers are looking good on my model. I am actually a little bit excited.

[gas_dr]

Yes, clinical experience

[Karl Spooner]

Put an electric fence around the whole city before they all try to get out!

[JoeRed]

I wonder how many people contracted the virus by standing in line to get tested...

[DannyTN]

You have clinical experience with COVID-19?

[ladyjane]

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.

[FreeReign]

Either the hospitals are getting a deluge or they aren't.

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.

[gas_dr]

Yes

[italianquaker]

Headline said first death in such and such county N.Y. due to virus
Deep in the article the person was in the nineties

[gas_dr]

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.

[CaptainK]

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

[gas_dr]

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.

[cgbg]

Today.

The virus never sleeps...

[Zhang Fei]

[I believe daily number of COVID-19 deaths ... in the U.S. went down today. ]

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Counting Hawaii, still 5-1/2 hours left in the day, and we’re at 57 so far 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

[ifinnegan]

“Probably the Blob is too big now:”

Perhaps, yes. So do San Fran and Chicago before the spikes there that will come.