Posted on 04/09/2020 6:08:47 PM PDT by abb
Gov. Jay Inslee's office on Wednesday announced that the state will be returning a field hospital deployed to CenturyLink Field Event Center to the U.S. Department of Defense.
The 250-bed facility, for which setup began on March 30, was intended to help Washington state's health care system tend to non Covid-19 patients in the event of a hospital surge.
But just three days after announcing the facility was ready to receive patients, officials say they're returning the hospital to the federal government.
The action is aimed at helping another state with a more significant need for hospital capacity at this time, according to the Governor's Office. The facility did not see any patients during the time it was slated to operate in Seattle.
"We requested this resource before our physical distancing strategies were fully implemented and we had considerable concerns that our hospitals would be overloaded with Covid-19 cases," Inslee said in a press release.
"But we haven’t beat this virus yet, and until we do, it has the potential to spread rapidly if we don’t continue the measures we’ve put in place."
State officials also say they've recently procured 1,000 hospital beds and over 900 ventilators to assist hospitals responding to the Covid-19 emergency.
Additionally, the state is leasing the former Astria Regional Medical Center in Yakima to serve as a 250-bed field hospital if a need arises in Central Washington.
Yup, a big old boondoggle
The ventilators of death.
Fake crisis.
btw century link sucks too.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/09/830805085/washington-state-returns-unused-army-hospital-as-covid-19-curve-flattens
Washington State Returns Unused Army Hospital As COVID-19 Curve Flattens
https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-field-hospital-coronavirus-dismantle
Washington’s 250-bed field hospital to be dismantled, sent to states worse-hit in coronavirus pandemic
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/08/field-hospital-at-c-link-center-not-needed-headed-/
Field hospital at CenturyLink center not needed, headed elsewhere
And you can bet that if you call for help again, this great President will be just as responsive.
No matter how big an ASS you are!
Dont think the mass graves in Central Park will be needed either. This whole COBID-19 crisis has been blown way out of proportion with the gleeful support of the media who are using every aspect of the crisis to bash Trump. The media and the left are doing what they can to destroy the economy and thus bring down Trump
B-b-but, I thought this was the WORST PANDEMIC IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oops!
No doubt this was Trump’s fault.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s we starting scrapping all the warships we built for World War 2. A lot of them we didn’t really need, like the Alaska Class Large Cruisers. We built them because we could, and they never really saw action.
Same with the B32 Dominators. Even though the B29 had beat it into mass production, we still let the contracts for the B32. And the Bell P-63 King Cobra; the jet engine rendered it obsolete.
So we built a hospital we didn’t need. We are pretty good at doing stuff like that.
Good news!
So much uncertainty around this viral outbreak.
Uncertainty”... it should be called the “uncertainty virus”.
It’s like “The Price Is Right” game.
Only you die.
Trump’s mitigation plans worked and saved the country from a big catastrophe
Kudos to President Trump, VP Mike Pence, Dr. Doom and Dr. Birx and of course all other members for the response team for their hard work and dedication from curbing this deadly virus from destroying this country.
Scam
Ca Bill Gates
Forget the panicdemic. We have thunderstorms going through here in Loosiana. I DON’T WANT TO DDIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!
In Baltimore they have converted the convention center into a 250 bed hospital. So far there is not a single patient.
The Worst in History!
.
Just ask the Media
or Marxist DoGooders.
Massive unemployment? No problem.
Pay half of the unemployed to dig holes.
Pay the other half to fill them in
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