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 Citys public hospital system said in a statement, 13 people at Elmhurst had died.
Its apocalyptic, said Dr. Bray, 27, a general medicine resident at the hospital.
With ventilators in short supply, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the citys 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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Yep, as soon as I saw it was the New York Times I knew it would be sensationalizd, inacurate and They’d fail to put Cuomo at the center of the mess he could have had far better control of the cases had he listened to other people
They died because Cuomo wouldn’t order the ventalators he’s required to have as reserve long before this virus hit the country.
[CV patients who receive the services of a ventilator don’t always do so well either (in one sample 97% fatality!). ]
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext
Many don’t need a tube shoved down their throats.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24215648
On what basis would you imply that?
You make fun of anyone who doesn’t march lockstep with the DNC/media narrative with no question so why not believe Pelosi too?
Great idea!
Too funny - a 27 year old hasn't lived long enough to grasp the term "apocalyptic"...and he ain't even a specialist..
Seriously? I've been making fun of FluBros since January. I make fun of those who believe death from pneumonia or cardiac arrest is not death caused by coronavirus. Also some that have trouble with numbers and arithmetic. The colloidal silver believers went away. I fart in their general direction.
Thanks!
Sensationalized? What? NYT? Nah...
Now the story amongst libs is that they are just having to throw the dead in a trailer in an alley
Right now Cuomo has plenty of vents. If someone didnt get one it’s not because new york has a shortage right now.
NY city infection rate is .02%
Bad link
13 deaths in a day. Heck that’s how many are shot in Chicago every day.
Obviously I have little if anything favorable to say about this despicable rat crook in what he says or does. He will always take credit for those who have to continually clean up his created messes and bad decisions. And equally as much blame others when things get out of hand he's responsible for.
Wednesday, New York had 366 deaths. On Thursday, there were 466 deaths, for an increase of 27%. I do not look at the change of new cases. The infection count only counts for those who walk into hospitals. That does not count for those who sweat out the infection at home and are not recorded. So, I count the deaths, because they are all recorded, including the cause of death.
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