Posted on 03/23/2020 9:02:52 PM PDT by usafa92
The doctors voice was filled with distress.
Dr. Suraj Saggar didnt have much time to talk. At times, he even sounded almost out of breath. Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck is under siege from the coronavirus, and he needed to get back to his patients.
But first, he had a desperate message he needed to send.
They need help.
It looks likes a war zone, said Saggar, Holy Names chief of infectious disease.
The hospital is in such dire need, it took the unprecedented step of pleading to the public for donations to buy critical supplies.
Holy Name is filling with COVID-19 patients. Supplies are running low. Doctors and nurses already at risk of exposure could be put in further danger if they run out of protective equipment, while some already have gotten sick, medical workers said.
The Bergen County hospital located at the epicenter of New Jerseys coronavirus outbreak is on the brink, nearing its capacity and supply stock. And its not alone in this deepening crisis as hospitals throughout the state face diminishing supplies and equipment.
Holy Name is running out of ventilators. The facility is down to only a four-day supply of respirators. Its stock of protective gloves and eye shields are dwindling. And disposable gowns are already gone.
"Everything is running low, Saggar said, speaking rapidly as a clamor of background noise carried over the phone line the cacophony of doctors and nurses rushing around him, tending to patients.
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You still don’t get it. The explanation for why it could never be a “cure-all” type drug at an advanced stage of the disease is because of organ damage. The second comment is a clarification of the first.
Sounds like a distribution problem. Where is the NJ Governor? FEMA? The city, county, and state should have a plan on addressing capacity at various hospitals and providing needed supplies. This is a management problem.
NJ has a total of 2,817 active cases. There have been 27 deaths for the entire state. They should be able to manage that level of infection.
“What war zones have they lived in?”
They’ve watched every episode of MASH a hunnert times, you silly!
We need war against Communist China. Watch these freaks do something (against Taiwan, against SE Asia) while the US is preoccupied with the Communist Chinese bio-weapon
There's no facility that can make paper masks and gloves in NYC, NJ area?
How many hospitals are in tha NE area a drive away?
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Just went by tonight our local rural hospital. Nothing going on. Few vehicles in parking. Yet the “campus” is huge, like an O-BodyMortgageCare money laundering operation.
Yep, thought about that tonight. 10 hours from NY, but our State Gov. and Health Director??? We might have another civil states war.
Or flights away.
Last point: The hospital system will have to cover vector to vector transmission. On a more macro scale, note how Gov Florida wants no flights in from NY, NJ
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8143953/People-say-anti-malaria-drug-helped-recover-COVID-19.html
The writers of these news article appear to be vying for “DRAMA QUEEN” awards.
If your lungs look like ground glass you will have decreased lung capacity. I agree. People still might consider that preferable to death
The dr was unprofessional and hysterical. I used to live a mile from that hospital and have many friends living in Teaneck NJ where the hospital is located. Two of them were in the hospital Sunday visiting (still allowed) and noticed nothing unusual.
As for “begging for donations”, Holy Name has been doing that since the 1950’s.
I’ve worked in two hospital ER’s in the last 25 years. I’m currently working in a third in southern NJ. It is not uncommon, even in times such as these for hospital Er’s, when they are at capacity to ‘’divert’’ cases to other hospital Er’s.
The mortality rate is likely to go DOWN, not up as the testing expands and identifies new cases. The number who dievwill go up but the % of deaths to reported cases will decline as it already has from about 4% to about 1%.
True that. Bergen County currently has the highest number of Corona cases. I think it’s around 400+.
Nice post, thank you.
One of the best and largest hospital in the nation, Hackensack Medical Center is located less than 3 miles away. Another large Hospital the Englewood Hospital is also less than 3 miles away.
Why aren’t they in trouble? If they were this story would have damn sure mentioned it.
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