Posted on 03/30/2020 7:59:09 AM PDT by bort
In these trying times, and with the easy availability of social media, facts can become distorted. Over the weekend, a Facebook post painted a disturbing picture of a hospital ER overrun with COVID-19 cases. In truth, our ER has been experiencing manageable volume, and no emergency physician has been hospitalized with the virus. ...
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For later.
I can’t think of a bigger waste of time than watching nurses talk on facebook.
I’m sure travis will be posting the picture shortly.
‘I can’t think of a bigger waste of time than watching nurses talk on facebook.’
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It would be mighty interesting if all the social media “talking heads” posting doom actually were verified.
Before you believe all of these “nurses” on Facebook who are making doomsday claims about COVID-19 cases, deaths in their hospitals, overrun hospitals, dying medical personnel....This was in St. Louis, where a woman claiming to be a nurse at a large St. Louis hospital claimed that her hospital was a dying field.
Now, dealing with the added safety measures to keep it that way can really suck resources, but that is not the same matter.
12 Wuhan virus deaths recorded in MO since this all began. Not all of the deaths are in STL. Not good, but hardly a “dying field”.
St. Louis City, Missouri, US
Confirmed: 102
Deaths: 1
Recovered: 0
Active: 101
St. Louis, Missouri, US
Confirmed: 336
Deaths: 2
Recovered: 0
Active: 334
STL county appears to be taking the brunt of it, and IIRC, a bunch of that appears to be from one guy who HAD to take his daughter to a father-daughter dance while under quarantine due to his other daughter having caught the coronavirus in Italy.
Based on population it’s not quite that bad. City is 350,000; County 995,000. And there are three times as many hospitals in the County.
bort wrote:
“Before you believe all of these “nurses” on Facebook who are making doomsday claims about COVID-19 cases, deaths in their hospitals, overrun hospitals, dying medical personnel....This was in St. Louis, where a woman claiming to be a nurse at a large St. Louis hospital claimed that her hospital was a dying field.”
Interesting that the nurse(s) have time to post on FB.
Based on population it’s not quite that bad.
Even with a 5% ICU rate, that’s still only 20 critical patients.
I don’t do Facebook. My wife has shown me a couple of videos where self-described nurses give these apocalyptic accounts of their hospitals. My response to my wife is exactly what your point is. If these doctors and nurses are so overwhelmed with death and dying patients, how do they have the energy to be giving all of these interviews and doing these Facebook videos ?
All I was saying is that while the raw numbers make it appear that the county is taking the brunt of it compared to the city, it is not that bad when one factors in the difference in population. Believe me, I am glad it’s not bad yet, and sincerely hope that neither the father nor the daughter were infected when they went to that dance.
Ah. I was considering neither as actually “bad”.
A bit of trivia I heard about Saint Louis: It is not actually in Saint Louis County. It voted itself out of the county in the 1870s.
Yep. Known locally as the Great Divorce.
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