Posted on 12/25/2020 11:48:52 PM PST by L.A.Justice
Christmas arrived in Los Angeles County with hospitals in a full-blown coronavirus crisis.
There are now so many patients that some hospitals are running dangerously low on oxygen and other supplies critical to treating those with COVID-19.
Patients are waiting as many as eight hours in ambulances before they can enter the emergency room. With intensive care units at 0% available capacity, health officials are urging that people avoid emergency rooms or dialing 911 for assistance unless absolutely necessary.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Oxygen is hauled by tractor(big rigs)and trailer, the gas companies that sell oxygen have thousands of trucks, therefore fake shortage. Oxygen in Dallas can be in Cali in two days or so.
Someone monitor LA County Fires radio and see how many hospitals are on bypass. that is a de liar.
Yes, comes from a wall unit. This is about like th IV SHORTAGES during the Swine Flu. So they can RAISE THE COST. A $5.00 IV UNIT HAS BECOME UP TO $700 A UNIT.
So, with a whopping five minutes of research I found out that there are two ways that hospitals get oxygen. They buy it in large bulk units or they generate it themselves through an onsite O2 generator.
If they bought too small of a generator for every room that needs O2 to have O2, that is their fault.
If they are making their own, I’d think their system would have a port to input commercially manufactured O2 into the system.
Big toilets need big flushing on a regular basis in order to function properly. Somebody better read the fine print in the instruction manual soon.
A quick google search of hospitals in LA county shows that there are 80 hospitals with emergency rooms 15 trauma centers, and only 4 of these are county hospitals. As Dr. Drew Pinsky says there is not, as he can see any emergency with care other than government mismanagement.
Smoking a cigarette in a chemistry lab? Now there’s a gal with hair on her chest!
Merry Christmas to you.
To be fair, she had a glass walled office with windows. We felt like French peasants watching her drink coffee and merrily puff away. In the actual lab space she followed protocol.
Tough but very fair teacher.
BINGO
To clarify....yes, Keck is USC’s hospital. It is the teaching hospital for USC.
I do not go to that one, I go to Keck Verdugo....I go the Keck in Verdugo Hills which is tiny yet very lovely. I go there two or three times a week for physical therapy ...I’m 71 and crippled. The Verdugo Hills hospital is tiny yet very lovely.
I usually go to Cedars where my doctors are but if I go to emergency there....it is an 8 hour wait always, it is jammed to the gills with non-citizens waiting for free healthcare that must be provided to anyone that walks in. so, I cannot go to Cedars...I go to Keck....it’s tiny, way up in the hills and no one goes because it is new.
Cedars at this time is 100% and full now as always. Keck VERDUGO ONLY is not because it is tiny and people don’t know its there. I got a Covid test there the other day. Results came back in 24 hours. I do not have Covid thankfully.
How much of this is due to illegal immigration? Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and El Paso have seen cases because of ambulances BRINGING infected people to the United States for treatment along with illegal and legal immigrants crossing over ...
That is ten times the average breath rate at rest, including Nitrogen etc in atmospheric air. You’d have to be on a ventilator to even force that level of air into a person.
Is everyone in the hospital on a ventilator, and getting 60LPM of O2??
No wonder people are dying; their lungs are exploding up like an overfilled balloon. That is fifty percent higher than people in end stages of pulmonary fibrosis get.
Information in #52 is correct. This is alternative to mechanical ventilation.
I can't grasp how you would force that much air into the lungs without mechanical ventalation, but maybe that is just my ignorance.
But how many people ARE actually on that drastic level of treatment? one out of ten? One out of twenty, with eight of the rest on normal levels? Surely not everyone in the hospital has to be on some level of oxygen.
Sorry, but I am of the opinion that there is a lot of exaggeration going on.
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