Like these trucks:
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Posted on 12/29/2020 11:21:57 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Los Angeles area hospitals are at a breaking point due to the coronavirus pandemic in Southern California, where the mounting death toll has overwhelmed intensive care units and led to contingency plans for possibly rationing care.
Though coronavirus hospitalizations are stabilizing in parts of California, patients are still overwhelming hospitals in a large swath of the state, leading California Gov. Gavin Newsom to warn that the state must brace for the effect of a “surge on top of a surge” from recent holiday travel.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I take it that the homeless population of Southern California has been decimated during this horrendous pandemic - being that they are not able to shelter inside their homes like the rest of us.
Hospitals in the Los Angeles area have been closing for years. I am far from an expert (now live in TX - yea!), but if there is a shortage of beds then it’s not from too many flu patients, it’s from a decrease in the number of hospitals. This reduction has been going on for awhile (20 years maybe). Like its water, power and forests, CA lacks proper management of medical resources. It has maybe half the acute care beds than NY or Penn. Boutique full-service hospitals have increased (if you have the $$), but these you will never see and don’t even know you are driving by them. “In all, 27 acute care hospitals closed their doors statewide between 2001 and 2007. But 11 of those, representing 58% of the licensed beds in the state that closed, were in one county: Los Angeles...” Link to report is here: https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/california-has-fewer-acute-care-beds-population-other-big-states
¿COVID-19? ¿Máscaras faciales? ¿Distanciamiento social? ¡No entiendo!
Translation: COVID-19? Facemasks? Social distancing? I do not understand!
Meanwhile 12 illegals living in one apartment. ¿Conseguir la conexión?
This report needs a check — by people out there we can trust.
The President already sent them a hospital ship but they sent it back.
Like these trucks:
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
My daughter is a nurse at a local hospital and they are being overwhelmed. She sent me a picture the other day and there were 7 ambulances in the parking structure and they are triaging incoming patients in the covered ambulance parking structure. A good amount of the hospital beds are now COVID beds. And yes there is a refrigerator van there as a temp morgue but it has not been used.
The good news. They have just brought on many traveling nurses to help out and hired about 100 new graduate nurses. They have a survival rate of about 93% of ICU COVID patients. In order for a COVID patient to get to the ICU they really really have to be ill. If 93% of the really bad COVID patients recover then overall death rate of COVID still remains minuscule. They are just seeing a flood of illness like they have never seen before.
“my work is in LA County hospitals and as a matter of fact I was at Cedars Sinai yesterday and from what I could see there were plenty of open beds and the ER was maybe at 50% capacity.”
I got excited when I read your statement but your membership day of 12-14-2020 quickly deflated that excitement.
“Considering the actual survival rate, availability of therapeutics and vaccine rollout, NO ONE should be dying from COVID now.”
Add the amount of time the Hospitals had to prepare for this, did they not get the memo back in the spring. Did they waste all the federal tax dollars by not preparing?
“I was in an emergency room in Oakland yesterday. It took seven hours to get a bed. When I was treated and left the hospital at 2 am, I saw that the ambulance cases were all lined up in the parking lot.”
Where the ambulance cases line up normal for Oakland. If I remember correctly Oakland is San Fran right? Are they reporting bed shortages there too?
I’ve been asking myself this as well. Our hospital has 3 times the icu level patients we are set up for, so much that we were kicked out of our area (recovery) and relocated in an overflow area. Staffing level for icu patients is usually 1-2 per nurse, it’s been 3-4 for the last month. No Bueno. Last summer we had some military units come in and help out. We never used the off site field hospital that was set up. My question is, why does the county health officer ask for help again? We are supposed to be getting travelers next week, but why not ask for military units as well?
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I know I’m new here, but what does my membership date have to do with anything? Is there some sort of secret ritual or vetting process I need to go through before posting on this forum? Is this forum like the Masonic Lodge, or do I have to wait to receive my Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring?
Since a non-responsive government has kept the State economy closed, supposedly to contain the virus,
do you honestly expect that same government to protect its population without regard to class, race, or political affiliation ?
I used to believe,..but not now !
Especially in Chinafornia .
Rationed care sounds like something I heard several years back, but there was a different term for it . . . . can’t place my finger on it . . .
...as FLU death toll mounts...
the vaccine has barely started to be distributed. No one has had the second vaccination yet abs it is a few weeks after that for full immunity. Therapeutics are better but people are still dying and he’s going healthy people are still dying. Our area leaked a while ago and is easing up now but we were close to rationing beds last month. This is a real disease and people do get really ill from it regardless of what the popular belief is
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