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 ...
Piedmont I(which has a 408 bed hospital 100% vacant)
Northside
Wellstar-
Emory
CHOA
Grady
Phoebe-Putnam in SW GA is also a chain of a dozen hospitals or so. But most of them are small. Many not in the chain have closed. Maybe those recently closed need to be reopened.
” Grady is always a cluster.”
So there is more to the Story. I wonder if New York City Medical facilities are badly run too.
I was the SC governor today, it appears SC has move ventilators for our population then New York does. I have to wonder if New York system was badly run.
Go easy on the seasonal flu boyz, reality is going to hit them like a ton of bricks.
Defensive? You’re showing your ass again. I stated first hand facts here that there is zero medical crisis in Atlanta. Other posters have added facts to it and obliterated this fake news story.
Am I pissed at you and your sick ilk? Yes righteously furious, you are spreading complete lies here gleefully.
If it were up to me I’d kick your ass off this site.
THIS ARTICLE IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT. As are you.
Glad to hear it.
Don’t ask me why, it’s off though
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For the media it’s all about viewership
I hope it’s below 1 percent, myself. Some figures indicate much higher. Feel free to take a trip to New York; some of their hospitals are really getting slammed. And no, I’m not rooting for it; if I break my leg when this thing reaches its height in Maryland, I’m SOL.
Yes inner city Atlanta is horribly run. Metro Atlanta is gold standard in health care and everything else.
Democrat shitholes are overwhelmed because A) they WANT this crisis; and B) they’re poorly run shitholes
“Just a flu, bro.”
Hey Laz, hope all is well with you.
Today while working I went from Johns Creek, to Alpharetta, to Roswell, then on to Buckhead. On the trip I passed at least half a dozen Emergency Care facilities that had tents in place outside. There was no one there in line. Not a sick person in sight. Those poor folks in the tents had no patients to wait on.
I was doing patch panel/switch work in a high rise building on Roswell Rd in Buckhead. Those boys were working as usual. None were ill, none were coughing. Work was getting done. Production was good according to the CM. ATT had been onsite and the internet connection was as close to a gig per second as I have ever seen. Made me want to put a cot in the AV room, for sure.
The less better news is that since everything is shut down, I got there in record time since there is no traffic, plus, for the first time ever, parking in Buckhead was plentiful!
All in all, what I am seeing in the news is not what I am seeing working around Atlanta.
Grady has close ties with Emory. They’re also where Army Ranger medics training out of Fort Benning go to for trauma experience . . .
Hahaha!
Yes, flu can be deadly. We also have been dealing with that virus for many years and substantial amount of the public is immune to it through vaccine - including our healthcare workers - so it isn’t nearly as deadly nor as contagious as this. The two are not in any way comparable, and it is ridiculous to continue to act as though they are.
In GA 18% of those tested test positive.
5% of those tested show sick and are hospitaized.
0.5% of those tested die (so far).
Oh, I posted 5 hospital chains in Atlanta and forgot to list the VA chain.... and one of them is the one closest to me.
I have no idea, but some of this — probably a modes part — is due to ONE sh*thead who broke quarantine to attend a funeral in Albany, GA, which subsequently turned into something of a hot spot.
“All in all, what I am seeing in the news is not what I am seeing working around Atlanta.”
100% accurate and my personal experience here too.
Oh, definitely defame the President. There should be people from the mainstream misleadia swinging from ropes after all this is over.
But there won’t be.
You’re right. When this is all said and done this one will probably be less lethal.
“...but it almost appears as though people are actually rooting for the virus.”
Agreed. There was a poster on the daily Coronavirus who made actual mention of being vindicated when the real death toll and resulting supply chain effects became more evident.
“Massachusetts hospitals began to see a mounting number of suspected coronavirus patients Tuesday, an ominous indication that the pandemic may be spreading in the region at a clip that is more rapid than the official state numbers imply.
Massachusetts General Hospital officials said the number of patients suspected to have COVID-19 in their emergency room or in beds had quadrupled to 53 between Monday and Tuesday, in addition to three other confirmed cases in intensive care and three in regular beds.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/18/metro/hospitalizations-covid-19-escalate-greater-boston/
Bookmark it. It is updated daily.
I found the link to it from the AJC.
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