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Atlanta hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients
CBS News ^ | Mar 25,2020

Posted on 03/26/2020 5:57:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz

At Atlanta's Grady Hospital, all 100 beds in the intensive care unit were full. Then COVID-19 hit. Viral patients are now quarantined wherever the hospital finds space.

"The stress is not just capacity," Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Jansen told CBS News. "It's not just stress of supplies, but on the individuals taking care of the patients. Because so much is not known."

At all of Atlanta's four major hospitals, every ICU bed is taken.

"Just kinda deteriorated," said Justin Anthony, whose cousin is in one of those hospitals. "By Sunday, the fever had not broken and she started coughing.

His cousin, Emma, is 12, one of Georgia's youngest coronavirus patients. Emma's hooked to a ventilator at Atlanta's Children Hospital.

In Alabama, a newborn baby girl is in isolation after her nurse tested positive for COVID-19.

Back in Georgia, at one rural hospital, 12 COVID-19 patients have died. That's more than in thirty-eight states. The hospital is overwhelmed.

"They've asked for help, but we can't give it," Jansen said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; flubras; flubros; justacold; justliketheflu; justtheflu
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To: rb22982
Nothing in this article actually suggestions COVID is that bad (100% full before first case). It actually suggests there were way too few ICU beds going into this at this hospital.

Except that they NEED ICU beds to treat a known percentage of COVID patients. In other words, there is a certain percentage who become critically (in danger of losing their lives) ill. And this percentage is high enough that if nothing is done they will overwhelm the medical system.

41 posted on 03/26/2020 6:24:11 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Lazamataz

Flu can be deadly, bro. We usually don’t shut down society in fear though, brah.


42 posted on 03/26/2020 6:24:15 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: JohnBrowdie

Not sure what your pic is supposed to mean - if you got something to say, say it


43 posted on 03/26/2020 6:24:45 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: poconopundit

ALERT! You and yours stay safe. Social distance, anti- social distance by locking yourselves in. Normal will never be boring again.


44 posted on 03/26/2020 6:25:20 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Armscor38
I know nurses who have been sent home early because there are not enough patients. The story doesn’t state if any of those workers have been hospitalized or when they were exposed.
45 posted on 03/26/2020 6:25:22 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Lazamataz

Atlanta Georgia has about 139 hospitals I don’t think they are running out of ICU Space. Plus Georgia has over 300 hospitals. Or more I quit counting..


46 posted on 03/26/2020 6:25:29 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Vermont Lt; BobL; Kartographer; JRandomFreeper; Tilted Irish Kilt; Jane Long; LilFarmer; ...
Just the flu, y'all. Sweet tea, anyone?

PING!

47 posted on 03/26/2020 6:25:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: JohnBrowdie

way too many unknowns in this coronavirus universe to conclude whether it’s nothing, and certainly not enough information to think we’re all going to die tomorrow.


There’s an enormous amount of difference between the two - and while there is a lot of uncertainty, there are bounds, and both of those options are untenable.

People who are paranoid are causing damage in a variety of ways - but so are the people who are completely or nearly completely dismissive.


48 posted on 03/26/2020 6:26:36 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Lazamataz

There is a brand new hospital with 408 beds available. It also has rooms for offices and meetings but nobody is in those rooms. It is totally vacant and ready to be filled with whomever. It is on N Peachtree in Atlanta.

There are 85 bed hospitals recently closed in East GA that could be reopened Of course, most of those with COVID-19 are in West GA from Floyd to Cobb to Carroll to Douoghtery to Early.

There are many 25 bed hospitals in the SW GA COVID-19 hot spot that could be reopened. Probably non-COVID-19 patients would be transferred to them to open up beds in the bigger hospitals for the current pandemic

There are other creative ways to find hospital beds.


49 posted on 03/26/2020 6:26:36 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: VastRWCon

“Bob it’s just the flu don’t panic. Maybe you should go on a TP hunt to keep your mind off of it.”

I’m not a FluBro (in case you haven’t noticed), so I wasn’t in those panicked crowds at Costco trying to find a package of toilet paper, nor will I be, for years.


50 posted on 03/26/2020 6:27:12 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Lazamataz

Does Atlanta have a lot of people who go to NOLA for Mardi Gras?


51 posted on 03/26/2020 6:27:22 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: LilFarmer

They should have put that in the article. Very bad reporting...


52 posted on 03/26/2020 6:28:03 PM PDT by DEPcom
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To: over3Owithabrain

while surely a crisis of some level or another, I definitely think this virus is being used to (a) pump up cable news channel ratings, (b) defame the president, (c) justify a liberal agenda that they can’t get through Congress, (d) generally scare the sh*t out of people, and (e) defame the president.

did I mention I think they’re trying to defame the president?


53 posted on 03/26/2020 6:28:09 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: over3Owithabrain

“Bullshit. You just jump on every negative news article and celebrate it. I can tell you this Atlanta storynis an exaggeration. Remember when FR didn’t take every news story as gospel?”

You guys are getting quite defensive. I guess the virus is more real than you guys thought it would be, now that our hospitals are being trashed.


54 posted on 03/26/2020 6:28:37 PM PDT by BobL
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To: DouglasKC

And here comes the biggest idiot..

Grady was already full. ANY outbreak of anything would overfill them, in fact they are always beyond capacity. Your comrades in the media found a convenient place for your/their narrative.
In the real world, Atlanta has tons of hospitals and beds. And there are relatively few dire cases here anyway.
I know this city like the back of my hand so take your weak shit elsewhere.


55 posted on 03/26/2020 6:28:43 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: JohnBrowdie

It is not a virus, it is a flu man.


56 posted on 03/26/2020 6:29:22 PM PDT by DEPcom
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To: Interesting Times

Well said post 40. It is not overwhelmed anywhere in Georgia.


57 posted on 03/26/2020 6:29:35 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: over3Owithabrain
Not sure what your pic is supposed to mean - if you got something to say, say it
okay. “Yikes. You just tore that guy a new tailpipe.”
58 posted on 03/26/2020 6:30:03 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Repeal The 17th

Thank you!

Georgia County Map
Cases/Deaths


59 posted on 03/26/2020 6:30:26 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: rb22982

Yup.

More and more stories coming out about all over the usa, they have deliberately been light on hospitals.

Part of it is the infighting between different hospital systems, in terms of ‘turf wars’, and trying to act like cable companies do in an area.


60 posted on 03/26/2020 6:30:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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