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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Yet nowhere in this article did it mention what was a “surge”? How many of the 8,000 positive tests actually required hospitalization, ICU and/or ventilators. With the propensity to test positive and be asymptomatic and all.
So how many ventilatiors do they have at their hospitals? Three?
You show up at a hospital because you have symptoms.
This thing is not a hoax or left-wing conspiracy and it is not checking political affiliations before killing people. I am growing tired of the asinine commentary that seems to be bubbling up on serious discussion threads.
Well from one NYer to the coronavirus.
Go #### yourself
You aint even close to the worst thing we’ve seen.
And you’re gonna die way before the vast, vast majority of us do.
Go ahead and let’s go the 12 rounds b.tch.
That’ll be the day something like you could take down me.
Many are, however, disproportionately fearful of it.
It’s not the black death.
Now matter how much some here wish it was.
#### it.
Maybe this doctor will convince you this is the real deal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/coronavirus-doctor-new-york.html
or this nurse:
If you don’t believe them, visit your local hospital and talk to the local doctors and nurses, and listen to what they have to say.
Connecticut also stop reporting the number of positive and negative tests a few days ago. I guess that little bit information is not important
Where do you get that the death rate is 0.5%? The US is currently 263 deaths/19,650 cases = 1.33%.
New York Death Rate
Yes, here’s hoping for post prayers for the NYT, soon.
Exactly.
“A car is going to hit you!”
“uhh, are the headlights on, or off?”
yup
p/H is high
p/H == panic/Hysteria
Excellent ratio
“One dying every hour.”
Let’s see. Last 24 hour period 12 deaths in New York State.
24 hours prior to that, 14.
Once again poor math skills.
The statistics of getting hit by a car are low so I practice soccer on highways.
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.
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Hey, I’ve got an idea. Quickly get them started on the 6 day Hydroxychloroquine regimen.
Diseases run rampant in dense animal populations. Over population is not a good thing. New York City, San Francisco, LA, Chicago and Atlanta come to mind. How do you have social isolation/distance in places like these especially with the massive homeless population in there.
From another article:
“At a news conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump talked up use of the antimalaria drug to treat patients who have the novel coronavirus, and FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn said that while chloroquine has been approved for other indications, it would still need to go through clinical trials.”
How many people will die while the Foot Dragging Administration dithers and hesitates?
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