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Posted on 01/09/2021 11:13:47 AM PST by buckalfa
LAURENS, S.C. (WSPA) – City of Laurens Mayor Nathan Senn announced a healthcare emergency this week as Prisma Health Hospitals in the Upstate reach capacity, and said the National Guard has been called to assist what is becoming “a field medicine scenario.”
In a recorded message, the mayor explained measures being taken at Laurens Hospital, saying the third floor has been converted to a surge area for COVID-19 patients to provide 29 extra beds. Workers are exploring other facilities to house patients, as critical care units are overflowing.
“What we feared has now happened,” Senn said of hospitals being at capacity. “People will have delayed care because of the overwhelming situation, which could have devastating consequences to your neighbors and you.”
The National Guard has been brought in to provide medics, as well as community family medical doctors and nurses. Senn reminded the community that healthcare workers have been working since February and are exhausted.
“We have taken their work for granted. We’ve taken the guarantee that there will be a hospital, with a bed waiting for us if we need it, for granted.”
Senn pled for the community to wear masks, wash hands and social distance to help.
Coumo doesn’t deserve the credit. Trump does.
And none of those facilities provided were used.
If they didn’t get tested and had spent the last year living in a cave with no internet or TV, they’d probably think they just caught a routine Winter bug.
Live here, yes there are few Guard medics, know several Docs, yes there are patients no its not a crisis, Prisma Health is healthcare company that purchased most small hospitals in upstate, there are plenty of beds in there system and they are taking full advantage of increased payments for covid especially for Medicare and medicaid.
Also have known this Mayor since he was a kid. Nice guy, but full time liberal.
Sorry, fear porn mongers. I already HAVE a God.
Ann Barnhardt is a fanatic, but she nailed it in one of her prior posts. She called Covidism a religion, and masks a form of “sacrament”.
Not to worry, these stories will go away on January 20.
Who is paying the Guard Soldiers?
In North Alabama physicians are under treating symptoms with OTC decongestants then crying when the patient worsens enough to need ICU..
thankss for posting that link,saved me the trouble
its not very far from me.
A very misleading article as its their 8 bed ICU thats full.
18 beds still available in their virus ward
Greenville Co is adjacent with 38 ICU beds available...maybe NG is providing transportation?
Get Cuomo to come down there.
He knows EXACTLY how to handle the “overflow”.
He’s good at and has plenty of “experience”./s
“what percentage of beds are covid patients versus flu and pneumonia?”
Not flu.
Need demographics. Never mind that it’s politically incorrect. It would be good science for us to know them.
“Not flu.”
but this has always been the season in which flu and pneumonia fill our hospitals.
Has covid cured flu and we no longer need the annual flu shot?? (sc)
About 70% white. The hospital is licensed for 90 beds. They likely has been taking some over flow covid patients from Greenville, which is just to the north. The hospital's staffing level and skill mix is also part of available bed equation.
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What’s the mortality rate of Covid, again? Less than 1 percent?
magicvirus
I have a few family members in that area, just outside of town.
Not one peep about anything.
There had to turn Central Park into a cemetery for ALL the bodies. /s
Covid’s, how convenient.
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Question is : how many of those are actually lif threatening sick ??
Hospitals like operating at full capacity - all that CASH $$$$ rolling in. They even get paid MORE than normal for handling “covid” “cases” ...
Not just politicians can exploit a contrived crisis.
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