Posted on 06/24/2020 12:05:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Coronavirus hospitalizations in Arizona and Texas have hit record numbers as cases continue to surge in states in the South and the West, overwhelming medical professionals.
Arizona reported a record high of 3,591 new cases Tuesday, with nearly 60,000 known cases in the state overall. The swell in cases came as President Donald Trump held a rally at a Phoenix megachurch Tuesday.
There was a surge in the number of inpatient beds occupied by positive or suspected COVID-19 patients, with 2,136 beds occupied, compared to 1,992 Sunday, according to data from the state's Department of Health Services.
Meanwhile, 84 percent of intensive care unit beds were in use at Arizona hospitals and 83 percent of inpatient beds were in use as of Monday, according to the data.
"Each day I've been going into work over the last month is worse, and what I mean by worse is ... just overwhelmed with COVID patients," said Dr. Frank LoVecchio, who works in several Arizona hospitals in emergency medicine and public health.
LoVecchio, who works with the Banner Health, the Valleywise Health and the Abrazo Health systems in Arizona, said hospitals have been very good about getting everyone personal protective equipment, or PPE, and offering counseling help lines for providers. Hospitals had been doing the best they could, he said, converting space to handle the increase in COVID patients.
But with the rush, medical staff were becoming exhausted.
"They complain of exhaustion — physical, mental — many times they're dehydrated and tired," he said. "I think back to like seven, eight months ago, one of our big concerns was nurses, doctors stay hydrated, make sure you get snacks, sleep well, take your breaks. That stuff is out the window."
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Every state gets its blow-off peak, and here those peaks come.
Most of the increase is in Border Counties (Yuma, Santa Cruz, Cochise) so yes the Chinus increase is Hecho En Mexico
Fake News. The left is ALL out to get Trump at ALL costs.
Having worked in healthcare for 34 years, there is a conventional wisdom that a hospital reaches it's effective capacity at around 70% occupancy. Over that you tend to run short of staffing including appropriate skill mix (medical floor versus icu skills). Throw in any complication to the just in time supply chains and a hospital can become full up with empty beds. Then again there are lies, damned lies and of course statistics.
Best I can noodle out from the state web page is less than 1/2 the people hospitalized and in beds are related to covid.
Who exactly are "these people"? I havent worn a mask once and I havent encountered anyone who actually contracted the virus yet.If you are going to finger point, get your facts first.
NBC News via Yahoo News.... One lies the other confirms the lie.
Non COVID hospitalizations were almost non existent in April and May. These type of cases have returned in June.
These people are now being tested for COVID even though that's not the reason why they are in the hospital.
So if these people test positive, they get counted as hospitalized COVID patients. That could explain the increase in COVID hospitalizations.
Texas and Florida (and Arizona) have the unique combination of having large dense populated cities but with a more lax government of less populated states like Idaho. And governors that caved and maybe opened a tad early. People acting like it was over and protests and everything It’s all so predictable that it’s frustrating
Seems like so many people I know in Ft Worth are getting tested positive and places closing back down on their own as a precaution etc. It’s interesting
Here’s the latest figures from Dallas County, Texas.
The “spike” doesn’t track with the ‘opening of the state’... but it *does* seem to track with the idiot ‘protestors’. Deaths have not spiked either.
While it’s not Captain Tripps, the 1918 Spanish Flu or the zombie apocalypse plague, this *is* demonstrably more serious than the peak of the last two flu seasons in Dallas by a considerable margin - so the “It’s only the fluuuuuuuuuuuuu” people can shut up now too.
Not so of the patoent tests negative for Covid.
Also, the primary things I’m tracking are lab-confirmed COVID-19 ICU admission/utilization and deaths. General hospital admission will take place for any reason including a hangnail, but ICU admission only occurs when it is serious. ICU admission is never frivolous in this day and age.
No, they aren’t. They are broken into non-COVID-19, COVID-19 suspected and COVID-19 confirmed, at least in my area. See stats link a few posts up from this one.
capacity at 80% is hardly stretched to the limits. During flu season we routinely run at close to 100%
Illegals are coming over the border with the Covid and the local authorities want to lock down the whole state?
How about closing the border?
And way before Covid, lots of diseases were coming across the border that we as a country had eradicated a long time ago.
As I umderstand it, both are counted even if it’s an incedental finding.
In tampa 152 reports from yesterday were tracked to one off campus bar. One bar.
What is being defied when trying to stay cool?
We have been seeing quite a few false positives on tests. That is why most people are taking these reports with extreme skepticism.
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