Posted on 03/16/2020 9:00:29 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Beds, ventilators and masks soon could all be in short supply in US hospitals rocked by the novel coronavirus, with doctors worrying they may have to start choosing which patients to treat.
"You have seen empty shelves in grocery stores," and the stress created by the lack of toilet paper, said Thomas Tsai, a surgeon and assistant professor at Harvard's School of Public Health.
"Imagine that same panic if hospitals became empty of protecting gears for physicians, and ventilators. That's the mental image I think about" if the crisis deepens, the hospital doctor told AFP.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
“Imagine,” “soon,” “could,” but nothing definite. More purveyors of fear. Just shut up and deal with it without this constant drumbeat of what it “could be.”
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This was brought up at Trumps speech today. All the closures and travel restrictions are to prevent failure of our hospitals. Trump said he hoped they could keep the restrictions on for the shortest of time if people were doing their civic responsibilities.
Reading some of the other posts here on FR lots of people bragging how they are going to defy any quarantines. I guess they need to touch microphones and lick doorknobs.
I hope they are the very minimal in our society.
I can set up an isolation room and spare a bed if comes to that. We will survive.
I have seen the word COULD more in the past week on this thread than I have in the past 20 years.
I COULD be 170 pounds by the end of the year.
I COULD be worth 20 million by the end of the year.
I COULD get a hot 20 year old blond to fall in love with my fat, 51 year old, average income butt.
But none of those are making AP headlines.
You do have a gift for putting things in perspective. :)
Here’s what today’s press conference and guidelines were based on. I see now, why they didn’t discuss that publicly at the time.
Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3825325/posts
Regular congestion of organisms will ultimately result in regular defecations.
Write down how you do all that and sell it for ten bucks a copy, at 68 I need all the help I can get.
masks are in short supply now and have been. unlike H1N1 we do not have any shortage of ICU rooms or ventilators yet. I don’t see it happening in the future either though I suppose it could. Either way the answer is not to hoard toilet paper and take away our civil liberties.
Hey...answer me this. Truckers travel all across this country. They have to stop at truck stops to get fuel and wash and get eats.
We gonna stop them also?
Well? Are we going to shut down the transportation of goods across this country because they will bring that thing from one region to another?
The only thing that can save us is to give up all our rights and freedoms to the state. That is what they think we believe. I do not and I am in shock that Trump is on board with this.
In 1975 we had about 1.5 million hospital beds. We currently have about 930 thousand. We already have rationing of healthcare,at premium prices. They don’t have room for current requirements, that is why they can’t handle an unexpected increase in needs.
DK
Trumps updates, like today’s news conference, are very informative, bypasses all the news biases. You should watch them.
without a negative pressure room, you can't do nebulizer treatments and can only rely on inhalers.....that ain't good.....
we probably have enough beds, but not the right kinds.
Could? Harvard?
I stopped reading as soon as I saw Harvard.
the whole point is to read these things and stay home so we don’t run out of capacity and nobody needs to freak out. taking it seriously ! = freaking out
Just got done..watching a piece on Italy and its problems. They showed the tents they got set up there and guess what?
NOT ONE jug of water aside any of the people in those beds.
People are losing their jobs. Businesses will fail if this lockdown continues for any length of time.
Is that fair to healthy people under 60 that are at very small risk of death or hospitalization?
Maybe the UK has it right -- let the healthy develop herd immunity and take measures to protect the elderly and vulnerable.
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