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To: Kaslin
Ben Taub Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is operating at 98 percent capacity, according to a spokesperson for the Harris Health System, while 33 percent of those patients have conditions related to COVID-19.

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Headline's a tad misleading.....only 33% of ICU patients are there because of covid.

Perhaps, there are other issues overwhelming the system besides covid.

7 posted on 08/14/2021 6:54:44 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Staffing!


45 posted on 08/14/2021 7:32:17 AM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: ealgeone

Well I’m sure it’d be nice to not have to use the 33 percent on covid patients. So easily preventable. People think they know it all. Lol.


52 posted on 08/14/2021 7:47:05 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: ealgeone
Perhaps, there are other issues overwhelming the system besides covid.

I have been in long discussions with a relative who works in the ICU of a regional hospital (they draw patients from several counties).

She says that on a typical day seven of the ten beds in the ICU are occupied, and that four of those seven are occupied by drug (including alcohol) addicts.

That might be part of the problem.

84 posted on 08/14/2021 9:13:14 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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