Posted on 12/20/2020 7:21:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
It’s a scene playing out across California. According to state data Friday, all of Southern California and the 12-county San Joaquin Valley to the north had exhausted their regular intensive care unit capacity and some hospitals have begun using "surge" space.
In hard-hit Fresno County in central California, a new 50-bed alternate care site opened Friday near the community Regional Medical Center. The beds for COVID-19-negative patients will free up space in area hospitals, where just 13 of some 150 ICU beds were available Friday, said Dan Lynch, the county’s emergency medical services director.
Lynch said he expects they will have to use the Fresno Convention Center, which can accommodate up to 250 patients, given current demand.
Fresno and three neighboring counties also have taken the unprecedented step of sending paramedics on emergency calls to evaluate people. They won’t be taken to the emergency room if they could go to an urgent care facility or wait a few days to talk to their doctors, Lynch said.
Some hospitals have canceled non-essential elective surgeries, such as hip replacements, that might require beds which may soon be needed for COVID-19 patients. Others are increasing staff hours or moving patients to free up space
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and when Biden’s Caravans start arriving LOOK OUT
They are definitely not sending their best.
There must be bodies everywhere.
“Rationed Care” is the hallmark of SOCIALISM!!!!!
Unfortunately China is taking market share in the casket biz...
With health insurance and especially hospitalization, you always want to be in a facility and with an insurance provide that has unlimited resources for your medical care.
Leftist pied piper and 0bama health adviser Ezekiel Emmanuel said “health care is too valuable not to be rationed”.
Fresno and three neighboring counties also have taken the unprecedented step of sending paramedics on emergency calls to evaluate people. They won’t be taken to the emergency room if they could go to an urgent care facility or wait a few days to talk to their doctors, Lynch said.
My wife’s California Sister in everything but DNA had this report:
Her middle 50ish year old son had really bad Covid, and an ambulance took him to the hospital in Sacrament.
There was no room in the ICU, so they left him in the Ambulance with 11 other ambulances/with patients to be treated in the parking lot. He was sent home in the same ambulance after about 3 days and is doing better everyday.
He is being treated at home with home care Covid specialists.
My wife is a retired RN with ICU training. She, a SIL Rn and other good Rn’s have said being treated in a well equipped ambulance might be safer than being in the ICU. Get the patients stabilized and then sent back home for treatment and recovery.
More fear-mongering.
My local hospital has over 800 beds and 105 ICU beds. They admit that all of the 800 beds can be converted to ICU beds. Even though they have only 31 Covid patients in ICU, they’re claiming they’re on the verge of being over run. Nothing like fear mongering to spread the narrative of the imperative of CV mitigation protocols.
“Some hospitals have canceled non-essential elective surgeries, such as hip replacements, that might require beds which may soon be needed for COVID-19 patients.”
I had gastric sleeve surgery last january. I was only in the hospital for one night. My local hospital won’t allow that surgery at this time to save beds for CV patients. Evidently managing bed space a day in advance is beyond their ability.
Are funeral services traded on the stock exchange?
In oregon if you have covid and are in a small town they send you to a “covid hospital” in Portland...so the numbers are likely all screwey. I know this because it happened to my MIL.
I suspect you arent really interested in the real mechanics of people on the ground dealing with this
but for those that are...here are some interesting discussions about beds and staff
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3164777/1
I seem to remember a Politician who stuck his neck out and sent TWO USN Hospital ships out to ‘help’.
If you pay/paid attention, you know the rest.....
MAYBE if the monetary reward/value was taken away, the facilities would be less inclined to ‘rate anything from a stubbed toe to a gunshot wound’ as BeerFlu just because the ‘patient’ sneezed etc etc etc
It is easy to say better to over estimate than underestimate and we were acting towards the ‘worst case scenario’ but make it less attractive and the #s will probably go down drastically.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Cali has added on field hospitals for flu season in the past.
“The beds for COVID-19-negative patients will free up space in area hospitals, where just 13 of some 150 ICU beds were available Friday...
Some hospitals have canceled non-essential elective surgeries, such as hip replacements, that might require beds which may soon be needed for COVID-19 patients.”
Sounds like they are trying to confuse and scare everyone with the issue on purpose. Right now, are the hospitals’ ICUs full or not? Or are they preparing for the possibility? The article seems to say both things. And they haven’t even deployed their National Guard or their civil defense plans yet.
Southern California has so many rave parties some at 100+ people gee I wonder why so many get sick.
The young are the most of the carriers of the virus stupidity on the march.
This will all be fixed with the opening of the Josef Stalin Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles County on January 21, 2021.
Have you noticed that not one city or state have asked Trump for military support.
Last time he sent two navy hospital ships and set up numerous field hospitals in a matter of weeks. They went unused because they never needed them.
Tells you all you need to know.
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