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Arkansas governor: 8 ICU beds open in state
The Hill ^ | 08/10/2021 | Mychael Schnell

Posted on 08/10/2021 6:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: BikerJoe

Something else I noticed...

States are making it harder and harder to easily access hospital utilization info.

What used to be done with a couple of clicks before now takes wading through screen after screen to find the info.


21 posted on 08/10/2021 6:56:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Read Abbots statement again, he’s just asking the hospitals to be prepared to cancel elective surgeries if that step is needed. He’s not ordered them to do anything. As for the Arkansas story, is there any independent sources that can confirm this news like Freepers who live there, if there’s not then I would be skeptical of this story. Why do so many here just believe these stories rather than waiting for the facts to come out before getting outraged.


22 posted on 08/10/2021 6:58:11 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many are vaxed?


23 posted on 08/10/2021 6:59:16 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How manu ICU beds are normally available?


24 posted on 08/10/2021 7:01:46 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Absolute BS!
The local news was reporting last Wednesday that Mississippi had only 7 ICU beds left open. That is demonstrably false. My daughter is a nurse at a hospital here in Jackson. She hasn't heard of an ICU bed shortage. I am a clinical pharmacist. I speak to case managers, nurses and physicians all day long and not one of them has said there is an ICU bed shortage in Mississippi. I would bet that it is the same in Arkansas.
25 posted on 08/10/2021 7:03:12 AM PDT by Malichi (!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The COVID death toll peaked at just under 26,000 per week in early January 2021.

That death toll has steadily come down for the last 28 weeks.

For the last 8 weeks, the COVID death toll has been below 2,000 per week.

2,000 deaths per week is similar to the death toll during a bad influenza season.

Fauci - by the way - has been in charge of USA influenza policies for the last 35 years.

Anyone remember when Fauci shut down the country for 2,000 flu deaths per week?

I do not remember that happening, either.

26 posted on 08/10/2021 7:05:12 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Hatteras

I wish you were a little closer to us. I was on the phone all night last night trying to find a bed for a non-covid patient. We have never had to call different states, from last night I know there are no ICU or step down beds in Oklahoma, Kansas or Arkansas. Finally got smart and started calling northeast. Had to fly patient fixed wing to the other side of the state.

Talked to one guy in Oklahoma who was also trying to get beds - he said they were having luck in Denver and Albequerque but since it was out of state, the transport companies were requiring a $10,000 deposit up front to fly people out of state.

I’m all for don’t believe the media, sadly don’t believe our own government but I know first hand it’s crazier than before when we were in this situation. Don’t hear about as many deaths tho so I guess that’s a blessing.


27 posted on 08/10/2021 7:05:13 AM PDT by ozarkgirl ( )
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To: Hatteras
"Like the USNS Comfort leaving New York Harbor. Not. One. Covid. Patient..."

Actually The USS Comfort, docked at Pier 90, treated 179 patients before leaving, most of which were COVID cases.

Initially the idea was to use Comfort as a non-COVID care unit, then COVID broke out on the ship, so they converted the mission to COVID treatment.

Not many, but it was utilized.

"And there were only 62 patients, including 26 in intensive care, on the 500-bed Comfort medical ship, which is dedicated to the sickest COVID-19 cases, an occupancy rate that remained virtually unchanged for a second day. By Saturday night, the ship had treated 100 patients."


28 posted on 08/10/2021 7:06:59 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
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To: alexander_busek

Hospitals do not make money by having wards full of empty beds. They plan the hospital to be full all the time. They have overflow capacity for ICUs to account for unexpected surges but it’s not massive. If they have a small number of open beds than that’s exactly how they were planning to operate from day one when they opened the hospital in the first place.


29 posted on 08/10/2021 7:07:25 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Was just about to post about Abbott making a similar comment.

RINOs are circling!!


30 posted on 08/10/2021 7:08:27 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: alexander_busek; ChicagoConservative27; mewzilla; bray; Salamander; metmom; grey_whiskers; ...

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31 posted on 08/10/2021 7:12:06 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yikes! Better close EVERY business in the state AND EVERY government office from now until it’s no longer necessary!


32 posted on 08/10/2021 7:14:14 AM PDT by stevem
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To: Salamander

Good vid.


33 posted on 08/10/2021 7:20:53 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: alstewartfan

Velkomen to Auschwitz? Take zee experimental medicine!


34 posted on 08/10/2021 7:26:04 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How does putting a diaper on a kids face change any of this


35 posted on 08/10/2021 7:28:27 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Trump 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is that due to actual beds full? Or, due to staffing shortages?

Most large hospitals are requiring employees to get jab.
2 people walked off job within 10 minutes of receiving notification email at hubbies hospital. They anticipate many more leaving.


36 posted on 08/10/2021 7:32:00 AM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Malichi

We are hearing the same thing in Texas. “Don’t come to the hospital. We are just plumb out of beds. Just stay at home and die, especially if you didn’t get the jab.”


37 posted on 08/10/2021 7:34:21 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ozarkgirl
What percentage of the ICU beds are occupied by COVID patients in your area?

In COVID ravaged Florida, the average is less than 20%.

Something else besides COVID is obviously going on in these overwhelmed ICUs.

Do you have any insight on this?

Thanks.

38 posted on 08/10/2021 7:44:58 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The normal occupancy of ICU beds (pre covid) is about 75%. Most of those ICU beds today are filled with non covid patients. The media will not say this.


39 posted on 08/10/2021 7:57:05 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, consultant, pilot instructor, pharmacist , retired now)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First, that sounds doubtful.

Second, why isn’t he setting up Army tents or converting schools to care facilities if this is true?


40 posted on 08/10/2021 8:03:56 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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