Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont claims Danbury Hospital is already at overcapacity.
Posted on 03/16/2020 9:05:50 PM PDT by Perseverando
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont claims Danbury Hospital is already at overcapacity.
Two hundred nurses employed by an interstate health system in New York and Connecticut have been out of work since potentially being exposed to coronavirus patients, a report said.
The health care workers from Nuvance Health will remain sidelined until they can obtain coronavirus tests to determine if they were infected, according to the Hartford Courant, citing Gov. Ned Lamont.
Lamont was discussing the dire situation at Danbury Hospital, which he said was “at capacity,” on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” when he made the shocking revelation.
“Well I can tell you, Danbury Hospital is already at capacity. And they have 200 nurses on furlough because they were in contact,” Lamont told host Chris Hayes.
The hospital is treating the state’s first coronavirus patient. A staffer there, who resides in New York, had also tested positive for the virus last week.
It’s unclear if all the furloughed nurses are based solely at Danbury Hospital. But, according to the Hartford Courant, they all work for Nuvance Health system, which is comprised of seven hospitals in western Connecticut and New York’s Hudson Valley region.
“If I can test those nurses, I can potentially get them back into the game a lot sooner,” Lamont said Monday night.
“We’ve got a surge in use, demand is going up and I’m losing nurses by the day who have to furlough themselves for a period of time. That’s a priority for testing for me.”
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Major changes are coming as a result of more widespread testing.
Say tonight you lose your mind and shoot up heroin with the hooker down the street after a blood transfusion earlier in the week at a Romanian hospital.
Tomorrow you get tested for HIV. Negative.
You sit in the house and don't move for six months.
You go back to the doctor, get tested. Results are positive.
I’m not sure what you mean.
What I mean is that a negative test in a person without symptoms is meaningless.
"The health care workers from Nuvance Health will remain sidelined until they can obtain coronavirus tests to determine if they were infected, according to the Hartford Courant, citing Gov. Ned Lamont."
I see what you mean but the article implies that they will return to work if the test is negative.
I understand what you mean.
A negative test today doesn't mean they won't test positive tomorrow.
But what is the alternative?
Quarantine all healthcare workers after possible exposure? The system would crash.
The status quo is not to restrict workers until they are symptomatic.
The actual dynamics of asymptomatic transmission are UNKNOWN. There is NO TEST that can resolve this issue.
I am working in this environment every day. There are hundreds of potential exposures.
Either we all stop working or we keep on working. There is no proper basis to choose among the alternatives.
Hippocrates said:
Life is short, but the Art, long.
The occasion fleeting
Experiment dangerous
And decision difficult.
Still the truth, 2400 years later.
I'm an EMT in an industrial setting so I'm not in a hospital or ambulance so I'm not going to encounter that much volume, hopefully.
This is confirmed as fake news. The governor is politicizing coronavirus. It seems that Demoncrats really will politicize everything.
Must extra suck for people with family members who have died from non-Chinese flu this year. No one gives a crap about them.
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