Posted on 03/17/2020 7:43:53 PM PDT by Mariner
Healthcare workers across New York City are bracing for a surge in COVID-19 patients who need hospital care. But they are already seeing shortages of supplies and staff as their colleagues test positive for the virus, and while patients displaying flu-like symptoms continue to crowd emergency rooms.
“Everything is being rationed,” said one nurse in a Queens hospital whose floor was just converted to the first COVID-19 floor, and is now full with two dozen patients.
“We went from donning and doffing gowns, only in the patient room, to being told we can wear the same gown in two positive-Corona patients rooms,” said the nurse, who like many we spoke to asked us to withhold their names because they are not authorized to speak to the press. “Supplies are running short. N95s are running short, those are being rationed.”
The nurse said they may add more beds in the ward she works and two more floors in the hospital will be converted in the coming days. Patients who need critical or intensive care are whisked away to intensive care at different parts of the hospital, while “they had 100 people down in the emergency room needing to come up” to her floor, the nurse said.
Another nurse practitioner at a private hospital in Manhattan said about a dozen doctors and nurses had tested positive for the virus and were recovering at home.
“It was the first big day, more patients coming in with these symptoms,” the nurse said. “It escalates quickly, rapid breathing and the next thing you know they’re blue,” she said of her shift on Monday. “It’s starting.”
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When we saw Wuhan on LOCKDOWN wasn’t that a big clue we would be in the same boat?
We wested a couple months when we should have been in overdrive.
South Korea has handled this the best. Tons of testing and quarantining. We should have been ready.
Now what?
flu
“Now what?”
We kill it and win.
We’re Americans for Christ’s sake.
The epidemic is starting to blow up. This is the most current map that I’ve found so far. Some of the figures at state sites are far lower, probably due to delays before sending data to the CDC. And because of that, the map at the CDC site looks like it was abandoned.
“Sources: State and local health agencies, hospitals, C.D.C. Data as of 10:26 p.m. E.T., Mar. 17.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
As soon as I saw the headline I knew they were describing a hospital in Queens. Parts of that borough of NYC look like Beijing.
"We?" When should "we" have done it? When Nixon opened the door to China, or the minute people started talking about something going on in China that the Chinese sure as hell weren't sharing info about?
Hell, Trump got a couple of things going in January despite most of FedGov telling him not to. Ain't no crystal balls.
I am filling out my shit list and so far it says "China."
Give it a break, Karnak. Shit done got serious since you first did that bit.
“...a cold that sometimes gives elderly people pneumonia.”
Comment on another thread. SMH
More to the point the democrats wasted December and January with a stupid impeachment when we should have been shutting down travel from the rest of the world, this Pandemic needs to be Pinned on Pelosi and China.
Yes. China didn’t tell us the truth and just burned up bodies and lied to the world.
they should block off, seal and quarantine (like New Rochelle) Chinatown in Manhattan and Flushing Queens NOW.
Flushing Queens has a huge Chinese population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing,_Queens#Cultural_enclaves
Shutting down travel. Test anyone BEFORE they can enter.
We could have avoided all of this.
But Dems had the nation distracted with an idiotic impeachment. THEN they tried to politicize this.
$750 Billion a year for the Wars, but peanuts for the people.
Asia has already gotten the pandemic under control. We mocked them, now the West will lose millions of people who could have been saved.
Great post.
Send the bill for all of this to China.
That sounds like a comment from one of our esteemed amateur virologists.
I just lied too. My shit list is China AND the Democrat Party.
“That sounds like a comment from one of our esteemed amateur virologists.”
Why yes, yes it is. I continue to be impressed with the depth of their knowledge and clarity of thought.
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