Posted on 03/24/2020 2:13:52 AM PDT by familyop
A New York City emergency room doctor -- who survived the Ebola virus five years ago -- says the city's hospitals being all but overrun by the rush of COVID-19 cases. Craig Spencer is director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center...
"Finally home after 13 hours in the ER. Today >90% of my patients were confirmed or likely #COVID19. Many really sick, some in their 30s like me. The sirens on otherwise empty NYC streets are unending & haunting. I’m tired. But really honored to be back in the ER in the morning," Spencer said in a tweet just before midnight Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at necn.com ...
As of last Friday, 1160 patients hospitalized for Wuhan flu in NYC; 300 were under age 50
(https://thecity.nyc/2020/03/one-in-four-nyc-hospital-virus-patients-is-under-age-50.html)
There are roughly 62 acute care hospitals in NYC. (https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/62-acute-care-hospitals-in-new-york-city.html)
That’s 19 Wuhan Flu patients per hospital, about 5 under age 50.
This guy must have had the worst shift ever.
We, as a nation, are “being knocked down”. We will, when this is over, as a nation, get up and “get on with it.” This is war. The healthcare system are the trenches and the staff are taking fire as they try to perform their duties under impossible conditions. Pray for them. Pray God keeps them strong and safe from contamination. Pray ceaselessly.
So 1,160 out of around 8,400 total cases on Friday (the 20th)? That looks like a high rate of hospitalizations per total cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_New_York_(state)#Timeline
And Sunday (the day mentioned in the article), around 15,100 or something like that? Yes, it must have been a rough shift. There might have been over 2,000 hospitalized on Sunday (at a guess). Most of those hospitalized probably don’t recover quickly, either.
Many would rather let the epidemic run without efforts to slow it down. But it appears, with the reports about the virus eating lung tissue and other organs, that the disease itself could disable much of the working population for a long time if allowed to expand without restrictions.
It’s a tough call, whether the eugenics answer or trying to isolate and starve the virus. Either way, we see and economic slump.
I had the swine flu, and it involved a little misery for a few days (diarrhea, airways). But this one looks far worse, according to descriptions from some of the physically fit young folks about their experiences with it at home. After the illness was gone, they still had weakness and trouble breathing.
...an economic slump, even.
Around here people, especially Medicaid patients, use the ER as walk-in care.
If those folks are staying away, I’m not surprised most ER patients are now WuFLU.
...and every day this week each shift is going to get worse. A hospital being over run is the worst thing I can imagine short of being thrown from a helicopter into a volcano.
Not everyone who goes to emergency room is hospitalized.
It looks like some cities are setting up for a separate CV medical system. In Jacksonville, our convention center (inside and parking lots) is being set up as a CV hospital.
Not an overflow from our regular hospitals. A separate hospital.
It does nobody any good to wreck our regular hospitals so that people with heart attacks or car wreck injuries also die. This is burning your seed corn.
It’s brutal macro social triage, but Italy shows us that we can’t just direct the CV patients into the normal hospital ER to ICU route. The entire hospital is then overrun and wrecked, along with the irreplaceable staff.
It might take a week to build a new ventilator, but it takes years to train a doctor, nurse or respiratory therapist.
Simple solution, prescribe HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND Z-PAC BY YOUR DOCTOR AND PROBLEM SOLVED. WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM WITH FDA AND CDC. IT CURES COVID19.
Calm down.
It’s in the works, but it takes time to ramp up.
Guess where the source mats come from?
It runs about 80% mild or asymptomatic, 20% serious or critical. About a fifth or a quarter of that 20% are critical.
chopperk wrote:
“Simple solution, prescribe HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AND Z-PAC BY YOUR DOCTOR AND PROBLEM SOLVED. WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM WITH FDA AND CDC. IT CURES COVID19.”
This ^
Also, production is ramping up, and meds are being donated,
The general rate of hospitalization for covid seems to be 80 percent heal at home vs 20 percent hospitalized. Most of your deaths will occur in hospital but that doesn’t mean that all of those hospitalized will die of it.
The increase of hospitalization for covid in NYC appears to have risen far beyond their normal “noise floors” in their ER’s.
It raises the question...even if work rules were relaxed in the rest of America, with NYC badly affected, could the rest of America function economically?
the fake stream enemedia is desperate to get their last shots of fear, panic, doubt and uncertainty in before positive results start appearing from the big hydroxychloroquine trial that starts today (Tuesday) ...
Wonder how many of those young people are gay men who continue to share bodily fluids with strangers, then when they get sick run to the hospital looking to be saved from their irresponsible behavior. It happened during the AIDS epidemic in the early 80’s. They refused to holster their gun or use condoms and then cried because we couldn’t find a cure quick enough. I’ve known my fair share and as a group they are arrogant narcissist’s who don’t think anything should get in the way of their pleasure.
I survived Ebola and I haven’t seen any cases of WuHu flu.
Non Seqitor: If there were no vast increase of China flu going on in the populace, there would be no vast increase of symptomatic patients with covid needing to be hospitalized. The presence or absence of Medicaid patients wanting to be seen for “nuisance” sicknesses has no bearing on the increased numbers of covids becoming extremely sick and needing to be hospitalized.
However the increase of Covids patients competes with folks coming in with other extremely serious illnesses, major strokes, MI’s, Pulmonary embolisms, bowel obstuctions, bacterial sepsis, ect. That is when care starts to need triaging and stark choices have to be made. That is why you have a hospital ship in NY harbor....which will try to take on the serious but noncovid patients.
I also see the possibilities of some non covids needing to be sent to regions that have relatively underutilized beds outside of the NYC area.
Bingo...….another dirty little secret....Cuomo said over the week-end that persons 18-45 were comprising 50 percent of the admissions for covid and we know that males make up the majority of the seriously sick thus far.
What do we know of a lot of the 18-45 yr old males in NYC proper...regardless of race? What contexts do we often see when that age group is mentioned!!? And I’ll bet that cohort won’t be denied vents as opposed to a 70 yr old meemaw who had no other conditions and might have survived with a little vent help, but won’t get it... because a male 27 yr old poofter and hep c positive took that vent from her!
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