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Coronavirus in N.Y.: ‘Deluge’ of Cases Begins Hitting Hospitals
NY Times ^ | 03-20-2020 | Staff

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.

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


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To: familyop
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.

121 posted on 03/20/2020 8:24:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Big Red Badger

Yes.


122 posted on 03/20/2020 8:25:01 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: rintintin
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.

123 posted on 03/20/2020 8:25:34 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: ifinnegan; TigerClaws
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.

124 posted on 03/20/2020 8:26:29 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: gas_dr
"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?

125 posted on 03/20/2020 8:27:41 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DoodleBob

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


126 posted on 03/20/2020 8:27:44 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: DannyTN

Yes, clinical experience


127 posted on 03/20/2020 8:28:00 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: NRx

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


128 posted on 03/20/2020 8:28:36 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: SanchoP

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


129 posted on 03/20/2020 8:28:45 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: gas_dr

You have clinical experience with COVID-19?


130 posted on 03/20/2020 8:29:09 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: gas_dr

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.


131 posted on 03/20/2020 8:29:18 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: mlo
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.

132 posted on 03/20/2020 8:29:22 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: DannyTN

Yes


133 posted on 03/20/2020 8:29:28 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: JennysCool

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


134 posted on 03/20/2020 8:30:03 PM PDT by italianquaker
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To: ladyjane

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.


135 posted on 03/20/2020 8:30:31 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: FreeReign

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


136 posted on 03/20/2020 8:31:13 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: ladyjane

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.


137 posted on 03/20/2020 8:31:23 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America)
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To: DennisR

Today.

The virus never sleeps...


138 posted on 03/20/2020 8:31:52 PM PDT by cgbg (BOLO--escaped SNF resident--Joe Biden)
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To: FreeReign

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


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


139 posted on 03/20/2020 8:32:06 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Paladin2

“Probably the Blob is too big now:”

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


140 posted on 03/20/2020 8:32:08 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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