Posted on 08/10/2021 6:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Only eight intensive care unit (ICU) beds were available in Arkansas on Monday, as COVID-19 cases increase in the state and nationwide due largely to the highly infectious delta variant.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) announced that 103 people were hospitalized in the state on Monday, marking the largest single-day increase in hospitalizations.
The state reported 995 new cases on Monday and 21 additional deaths, according to Hutchinson.
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Also, putting someone in ICU is a judgment call in many cases.
If they want to fudge the numbers, simply admit more non-critical patients to ICU under a COVID diagnosis.
I don’t trust anyone when profit factors into what they do.
They started giving shots at the VA for 65-and-older in Jan and Feb 2021.
Also other places; my work mentioned the shots, but since I wasn’t 65 yet, they weren’t available.
Currently the only ones in the ICU and dying are unvaccinated.
https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-32617c0cb852301b4bfed849e207baad
That may change once everyone’s vaccine loses efficacy.
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.
// How many have Covid? Funny they don’t mention that in the article.
Yup. This is strictly fear porn, as there is no useful information in it to actually determine if occupancy rates are normal or not. Hospitals don’t build ICU facilities just for the hell of it. An empty bed is not generating money. ICU facilities are DESIGNED to be run at 90% capacity.
How many beds are occupied by illegal aliens.
3,545 in the last 7 days per Worldometer. Up 35%.
I don't know, we are a critical access hospital and don't have ICU so we transfer all patients that require ICU - that's if we can :) We've been having to keep patients that might otherwise need a higher level of care if they are borderline.
I would think quite a high percentage is covid but I don't know. I am near Springfield MO which was recently the hot spot of the nation.
After talking to Oklahoma last night (never had to transfer out of state before) it makes me think Oklahoma, Ks, Arkansas are overflow from Texas with all the illegals coming in with covid.
The real time death numbers from Worldometer and the Johns Hopkins website are estimates.
My numbers come from lawfully required U.S. Standard Certificates of Death.
Those Certificates are filed electronically with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is administered by the CDC.
NCHS receives 95% of its COVID death certificates within one month, so there is always some lag in the real time NCHS numbers.
However, the NCHS total COVID death number - 605,600 - is almost identical to the Johns Hopkins estimated number, which is 618,000.
You can view the NCHS numbers by following these unfortunately complicated steps...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
(1) Scroll 60% of the way down the page to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Mortality Surveillance
(2) Locate the Pneumonia, Influenza, COVID-19 chart below that title.
(3) Click on that chart. New page opens. On the right hand side of that new page is the same chart. Roll your cursor over the new chart for weekly numbers.
(4) Also - you can click on View Chart Data below the chart on the FIRST PAGE. The data appears in an Excel spreadsheet on my computer.
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