Posted on 03/31/2020 8:19:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - U.S. officials want to build hundreds of temporary hospitals across the country to cope with the thousands of new coronavirus cases being diagnosed daily after the United States endured its deadliest day yet on Monday with 575 fatalities.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which converted a New York convention center into a 1,000-bed hospital in the space of a week, is searching for hotels, dormitories, convention centers and large open space to build as many as 341 temporary hospitals, the chief of corps said on Tuesday.
“The scope is immense,” Lieutenant General Todd Semonite of the corps told the ABC News “Good Morning America” program. “We’re looking right now at around 341 different facilities across all of the United States.”
The U.S. caseload rose by more than 20,000 confirmed cases on Monday, overwhelming hospitals that are running out of doctors, nurses, medical equipment and protective gear.
The corps, the engineering arm of the U.S. Army, joined with New York state officials to convert New York’s Jacob Javits Convention Center into a facility to treat non-coronavirus patients. The conversion will relieve the pressure on hospitals treating patients with COVID-19, the respiratory ailment caused by the novel coronavirus.
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I'm not a logistics expert, I just play one on FreeRepublic, but where is the supply chain for this kind of rapid hospital expansion?
I think many of the people that are being hospitalized with more mild cases, should be quarantined at home.
I still say that these Army Corp of Engineers are right now, retrofitting the idle cruise ships with Corona filters in all a/c systems onboard. Who know how long we will need these cabins for quarantining.
After all is over, the cruise industry will claim virus free ships from the upgrades.
I’m guessing they’re quarantine centers as much as hospitals.
There are “in between” cases, still need some care and O2 support, but not quite sick enough for a hospital bed. Plus, some people have high risk people a home and they need to a step down quarantine after the hospital.
The implication is that 20,000 people checked into hospitals on Monday with COVID-19. I'm not sure that's accurate. "New Cases" does not equal "Cases requiring hospitalization".
Personnel is really not an issue. Supplies are an issue, but the ramping up of production should take care of most of that demand by the middle of April, if not sooner.
The just set up a alternative hospital in the Navajo Res in AZ.
The military sent medical personnel to help there.
Again, its the US military/NG on the front lines.
Gee, that sounds serious.
The question of demand........ does the demand actually exist.
Yes and no. scared people demand hand sanitizer and masks.
Governors demand more and more maskas and ventilators. They are creating a false political issue. The actual need for ventilators on such a scale is yet to be shown
The Speaker of the House tried to create an issue by screaming giddily “Tests, tests, tests” because being the ignorant woman she is, she believed she was making a demand that could not be satisfied.
Trump is denying them by not playing their game. His attitude is you want it, you got it.
If unused, there is a stockpile
Excellent questions since there is already a nurse and doctor and supplies shortage.
INHO, this is for show. It has zero practical use.
People have been gaslighted into believing the hospitals are overrun with the dead and dying from CORONA-19. The US Navy hospital ships Mercy and Comfort were dispatched to help but each have 1,000 beds and only 80 beds for intensive care and have been sent to help with the “overloaded hospital system”, as reported by the government and the media.
However, that’s a complete lie.
In the US, there are 6,146 hospitals with 924,107 hospital beds with 97,776 intensive care beds. The gaslighting of Americans is that two ships of 2,000 beds total and only 160 intensive care beds is absolutely necessary to a hospital system with 462 times the number of beds and 611 times the number of intensive care beds because somehow the virus is overloading the hospital system.
Are you sure about personnel not being an issue? In a lot of cases it seems like competing resources, as the doctors and RN’s being called up work as doctors and RN’s in their civilian capacity.
“ The corps, the engineering arm of the U.S. Army, joined with New York state officials to convert New York’s Jacob Javits Convention Center into a facility to treat non-coronavirus patients.”
NON Wuhan Flu patients.
I saw something the other day on one of the network morning news shows that the gov. Was looking to get recent medical retirees to come back and work during the crisis.
Strange times.
Will they be military hosp personnel?
‘NON Wuhan Flu patients’
NON China BIO WEAPON VIRUS’
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Doesn’t matter to them, the mission is build hospitals. Someone else will figure out how to staff them, or not. Right now we are just throwing money at the problem, something we are really good at.
What we are not good at is common sense and preparation and execution.
The President is doing the best he probably can with the help and the light he has to work by.
Convert the US Capitol. It’s not like those people do anything useful.
Ironic that until the early 1970s packaged Korean War era MASH hospitals were dispersed around the country often in remote areas in preparation for possible nuclear war. I worked for the South Dakota Department of Health in those days and knew of a project to collect these packaged hospitals and dismantle them reclaiming any useful equipment .
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