Posted on 11/23/2020 4:05:51 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and leaders of the Ohio Hospital Association are holding a special press conference today to provide an update on the hospital situation during the coronavirus surge.
The state is reporting a new record of 11,885 new coronavirus cases Monday, which includes several days of cases from two big laboratories...
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This is interesting, particularly considering that some of the "cases" are positive tests results of people who may have had to take a test for work and never had any symptoms worth seeing a doctor about.
How any ER and doctor visits were there on average for the same week in November the past ten years for sinus infections, bronchitis, etc.?
Bet they’re counting repeat positives on the same positive patient as a new case.
NYS is doing that.
Bet OH is lumping in probables, too.
I would like to know the number of people who were hospitalized for, say, out-of-whack blood pressure, broken leg, gallbladder infection, etc., etc. who tested positive for Covid.
Of the types of conditions that could intersect with Covid, such as out-of-whack blood pressure, I would like to know the number hospitalized for this for the same period last year.
The reporting is way behind at this stage.
Mike Dewhiner.
Not lumping in probable yet. DeWine said that’s coming, but they haven’t done it yet.
I think all these stories about new “spikes” are because of the millions of people who cynically commented during the campaign that “all this will be over after the election” and the gaslighters feel like they have to keep it going to make it look somehow non-political and on the up-and-up.
My S.O. had to get two tests due to showing up to work with a temp of 99.0—99.0—as in a blip over 98.6.
S.O. is big-time heat cranker upper in the car. I thought I was bad with needing my heat, but I can’t hold a candle, no pun intended.
Two tests required—needs two negatives to be able to go back to work. Negative on first one. Awaiting results of second.
Due to return to work Wed. if no positive test.
If S.O. registers 99 again, more tests.
Rinse and repeat.
Ohio has been very dishonest in what data they provide. Today’s figures were a compilation of several days but they wouldn’t’ say just how many “cases’ per day were added together. They report gross numbers of admissions but will not report discharges for the same days. They claim hospitals are becoming crowded but refuse to divulge numbers of beds available, or how many are being used to treat actual COVID patients as opposed to those who happen to be “positive.” IOW, BS on toast.
I have posted this before, but it bears repeating:
So eight years ago or so, I had surgery, at an Ohio hospital. It was slated as same-day surgery, assuming all went well and they didn’t have to switch from “band-aid” incisions to larger ones, which they didn’t have to do.
But I was shocky afterwards, due mostly to larger than expected blood loos.
But they had no ICU beds at the time to spare, or even beds in the unit below that or beds in telemetry.
Now this was the summer, so not flu season, but they just had that many patients in for this, that and another thing.
So I got stuck in recovery for hours, and I got less shocky over time. They sent me home that night—no room for me and I wasn’t as in need as other people of an overnight stay. I would have preferred sticking around 36 hours or so.
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Gov. Mike DeWine holds Monday news conference with Ohio hospital leaders amid new coronavirus case record
11/23/2020, 7:05:51 PM · by CheshireTheCat · 10 replies
Cleveland.com ^ | November 23, 2020 | Staff
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