A Strange Report from Santa Clara County, coronavirus hotspot

California Globe ^ | March 31, 2020 | Wayne Lusvardi

[dirtymac]

NYC has a pretty serious problem.
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But the subways (trains) are still open and very crowded. Do we see a problem here.

Stock market is down again today. Why? is this also intentional? No reason for it.

[SunkenCiv]

Here in one of the hotbeds of COVID-19 (Santa clara county) the hospitals that the media have said are over run and the staff is overworked, how come the hospitals are actually empty. At Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, over 100 nurses are not working and nurses that are scheduled for 8 hour shifts are set home because there is not enough work to keep them there.

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[stuckincali]

if you have spare medical staff offer other counties help

[cherry]

same at my hospital....nurses home, floors empty....

[ProtectOurFreedom]

West Virginia, too...

Beds empty, revenues slowed at hospitals in West Virginia; CAMC announces hours reduction measures

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I guess we should send all of our California excess medical staff to New York City. The Gov there wants one healthcare worker for every eight citizens in the city!

NY seeks 1 million health care workers

The Associated Press, March 31, 2020, by ARITZ PARRA, DAVID RISING and NICK PERRY

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo begged for health care reinforcements, saying up to 1 million more workers were needed to fight the coronavirus.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The County of Santa Clara Health Department is providing almost NO information. On their Facebook page, Paulette Varghese Altmaier wrote: "FIX YOUR DASHBOARD! Add # tested and # hospitalized and # in ICU. Stop being so officious and so opaque."

Sounds like Paulette would be a good FReeper.

Gregory Alonzo wrote: "Any chance you can address the availability of the new anti-body (NOT antigen) serological test? My understanding is that it's cheap and quick (15 mins.)"

Such OBVIOUS bits of information that could be posted.

Santa Clara County has 1.8 million people. We have less than 1,000 cases and 30 deaths. Click dashboard to go to more legible web page. Dashboard jpg as of 3/31/20 2:20 pm PDT:

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It must be bad at El Camino Hospital. Their web site says the ER wait time in Los Gatos is 12 minutes and in Mountain View it is 12 minutes.