Posted on 03/25/2020 5:18:53 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions at Elmhurst Hospital Center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiancé. All had tested positive for the coronavirus and had gone into cardiac arrest. All eventually died.
Elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in Queens, has begun transferring patients not suffering from coronavirus to other facilities as it moves toward becoming one dedicated entirely to the outbreak. Doctors and nurses have struggled to make do with a few dozen ventilators. Calls over a loudspeaker of “Team 700,” the code for when a patient is on the verge of death, come several times a shift. Some have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed.
A refrigerated truck has been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. Over the past 24 hours, New York City’s public hospital system said in a statement, 13 people at Elmhurst had died.
“It’s apocalyptic,” said Dr. Bray, 27, a general medicine resident at the hospital.
With ventilators in short supply, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the city’s largest systems, has begun using one machine to help multiple patients at a time, a virtually unheard-of move, a spokeswoman said.
In the neighborhood it serves, Elmhurst, more than two-thirds of residents were born outside of the United States, the highest such rate in the city. It is a safety-net hospital, serving mainly low-income patients, including many who lack primary care doctors.
Patients came in faster than the hospital could add beds; earlier this week, 60 coronavirus patients had been admitted but were still in the emergency room. One man waited almost 60 hours for a bed last week, a doctor said.
The patients coming in now are sicker than before
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Even if it was 2000 deaths per day it wouldn’t come close to the number of deaths seasonal flu claims.
Thanks for the ANECDOTE, doc.
/s
I think cuomo banned the use of the drugs. He wants to do the plasma testing. He’s playing doctor.
Today in his presser he said there was no problem getting beds. Hm. maybe to the elite.
I wish I had property in a different state.
For example, one block just across the street from the hospital has about 60% Hispanic and 30% Asian residents.
That block has 1/3 of its residents below the poverty level with a median resident age of 36 years.
The prevalence of the virus may result from travel to other nations, or patterns of social interaction in a dense urban area. Another factor is the kinds of work most of the residents are involved with. Unemployment is very low, reported at under 5%, but median household income is only about $23,000 per year. The kind of work done by people in those neighborhoods may have increased risks of exposure and therefore contributed to the prevalence of the virus
This tells me the coronavirus has moved into the older population in greater numbers and they have moved up the death rate velocity. Does anyone have New York deaths by date statistics?
Hard working people in New York city that are driving cabs, or Uber vehicles, or cleaning hotel rooms, or washing dishes, or doing thousands of other jobs needed to keep the city going don't have the luxury of sitting at home working remotely.
95% had underlying health conditions.
Problem is these are fairly common issues like diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure and heart disease.
[The blocks around the hospital have populations that are largely characterized as Hispanic or Asian in census data.
For example, one block just across the street from the hospital has about 60% Hispanic and 30% Asian residents.
That block has 1/3 of its residents below the poverty level with a median resident age of 36 years.
The prevalence of the virus may result from travel to other nations, or patterns of social interaction in a dense urban area. Another factor is the kinds of work most of the residents are involved with. Unemployment is very low, reported at under 5%, but median household income is only about $23,000 per year. The kind of work done by people in those neighborhoods may have increased risks of exposure and therefore contributed to the prevalence of the virus ]
[You can look at block by block census data on the city-data.com website.]
Interesting guy. Jewish, wrote a book about Jewish wisdom. His last facebook post is a meme of Pelosi asking if she should be removed from office. Looks like he’s a Trump supporter.
However, nothing is mentioned about coronavirus or treatment medicine on his page.
If you select New York city, there will be a map. On the map select whatever census data parameter you are interested in.
Then you can navigate the map -- I often open up google maps in another window to locate places in the city-data map.
Try this link to the Elmhurst neighborhood
You can see the summary data as a pie chart, or click on individual blocks on the map to see a per block pie chart or data.
It is a helpful tool to study demographic data.
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A rapidly expanding market & customer base for entrepreneurial Uber / Lyft drivers with their own refrigerated trucks.
[City-data seems to be somewhat shaky right now, I had similar problems. It does not provide a direct URL for most functions.
If you select New York city, there will be a map. On the map select whatever census data parameter you are interested in.
Then you can navigate the map — I often open up google maps in another window to locate places in the city-data map.
Try this link to the Elmhurst neighborhood
You can see the summary data as a pie chart, or click on individual blocks on the map to see a per block pie chart or data.
It is a helpful tool to study demographic data.]
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Exaggeration doesn't help your argument...worst seasonal flu years/seasons have about 61,000 fatalities in the US. Not the ~540,000 you are suggesting.
CV patients who receive the services of a ventilator don't always do so well either (in one sample 97% fatality!).
I did find one example of I.V. infusion.
what does the number have to do with anything.
these were human deaths, perhaps some which could
have been avoided if they had only listed
to the ELECTED PRESIDENT.
DID THEY GET Zpack, HCQ or not?
Not sure if IV Plaquenil is an available hospital pharmacy product in the U.S.
He’s a CovidClown. Trying to mock the FluBros.
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