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[Dilbert San Diego]

I hear that hospitals have been putting off elective surgeries. That was in anticipation of being overrun with virus patients. But the virus patients haven’t flooded the hospitals at least not yet.

[HangnJudge]

All elective cases cancelled,
All non-emergent procedures cancelled,
nonessential staff furloughed
hospital clearing the stacks for an expected onslaught

[Buckeye McFrog]

The truth as always is found in economics.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Thanks for the update flubro!

[DannyTN]

[TexasGator]

California: 100 / 4880 = 0.0001 ?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

A couple of weeks ago, there were 4 coronavirus patients at Good Sam, all of them had recently arrived from the same trip overseas (a nurse told me). I don't know what the situation there is now.

[Vendome]

I drive by Good Samaritan everyday and the parking lot, which is usually full, is only half.

[NormsRevenge]

MISSION: Like NY’s Cuomo, it’s all about make it last as long as you can.. The Dems control all facets of life in this state.. and death here as well where Death Row inmates die of old age .. To say the local and state media&mechanism is in their pockets is a non-starter.

[NormsRevenge]

MISSION: Like NY’s Cuomo, it’s all about make it last as long as you can.. The Dems control all facets of life in this state.. and death here as well where Death Row inmates die of old age .. To say the local and state media&mechanism is in their pockets is a non-starter.

[ClearCase_guy]

NYC has a pretty serious problem.

The rest of the country? [shrug] Not that much.

[nevermorelenore]

Waiting for Travis to weigh in with his HUUUmongous graphics

[bramps]

There’s one thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach… all the damn vampires.

[PanzerKardinal]

We have 2 travelling nurses staying with us. We’re in Northern California.

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One is an Emergency Department nurse.

The hospital is a Tier 2 trauma center. They’ve got triage tent. Have a special unit set up for COVID-19 patients. Everything is ready.

I talk to her everyday and it’s always the same. Nobody is coming in. The place is empty. Most exciting thing all week was a kid broke a bone. One day she came back early because there was nothing to do.

One thing she complained about was it takes a long time to get results back, but that because until last week, California had only 1 certified private lab.

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The other is an ICU nurse at the same hospital.

The unit has 23 beds. Yesterday, he told me 12 were occupied. For them that’s slow.

2 did die last week but one was heart failure and the other from cancer.

[Ratman0823]

The problematic thing about this Kung Flu PANdemIC is that doctors are hesitant to see other patients who, under normal circumstances, should be seen and checked out.

Case in point is my mother-in-law, who is in her mid-80s. For the past few days, she has had a bad case of the trots, and hasn’t eaten or drank much. When she called the doctor, he “treated” her by phone, gave her some suggestions on what to eat or not eat, and get back to him in a couple of days. If it weren’t for this Kung Flu thing, she should have seen him in his office and quite probably spent at least a night in the hospital so they could give her fluids intravenously to stabilize the situation.

Is this lockdown a good thing? Possibly, since it appears to be helping the spread of the virus, at least in places where people are listening. Still, we’ve allowed our fear of the disease to cloud our judgements when it comes to normal daily activities.

[dila813]

I see it myself but they tell me it is the quiet before the storm

[Sequoyah101]

Follow the money.

[redinIllinois]

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[stuckincali]

if you have spare medical staff offer other counties help