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Mississippi asks Biden administration to send military hospital ship
13NewsNow ^ | 12 August 2021 | Emily Shapiro,Ivan Pereira, and Meredith Deliso

Posted on 08/12/2021 1:36:02 AM PDT by blueplum

Norfolk-based USNS Comfort was deployed to help treat patients in the early days of the pandemic. Mississippi health officials hope it can be deployed again.

NORFOLK, Va. — Hampton Roads could send help to one of the COVID-19 pandemic's hardest-hit states.

Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the Norfolk-based USNS Comfort to help its overloaded hospitals with COVID-19 patients, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday....

The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said.

The dean warned, "The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues.”

(Excerpt) Read more at 13newsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; comfort; covid; mercyclass; navy; pandemic; usn; usns; usnscomfort
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1 posted on 08/12/2021 1:36:02 AM PDT by blueplum
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Illegals?


2 posted on 08/12/2021 1:37:03 AM PDT by madison10
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Whoever it is, the ship should go to Mississippi as it did in New York a year ago. Obviously Mississippi is desperate for the ship. Give it to them.


3 posted on 08/12/2021 1:41:25 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: madison10

not sure.
I did a look-see at MS and as of Aug 9 they’re in the weeds:

” Dobbs said there were zero ICU beds at Level 1-3 hospitals, and more than 200 patients were waiting in ERs for a hospital room.

As of Aug. 8, there were 1349 COVID patients in Mississippi hospitals, 205 of them on ventilators.”

https://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-reports-3-488-covid-010700750.html


4 posted on 08/12/2021 1:54:39 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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My daughter needed medical attention in NYC yesterday and went to NYU hospital. They took her in immediately with no waiting.


5 posted on 08/12/2021 1:56:36 AM PDT by albie
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To: blueplum

Captain Cuomo?


6 posted on 08/12/2021 2:00:52 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: blueplum

Look at the myth VS truth list attached to this article. Disgusting propaganda. Lies.


7 posted on 08/12/2021 2:02:23 AM PDT by antceecee
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follow on article from Newsweek says UMMC is setting up covid ‘ward’ in their parking garage - biggest issue is lack of critical care staffing. It doesn’t say it in this article, but last year I think that staffing was bumped in other areas by the NG, yes?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mississippi-s-largest-hospital-converting-garage-to-covid-ward-as-state-short-on-icu-beds/ar-AANcUiT?ocid=msedgntp


8 posted on 08/12/2021 2:10:00 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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Will the result be different this time? Treated fewer than 200 while in NY and multiple field hospitals fewer than 100.


9 posted on 08/12/2021 2:34:00 AM PDT by smoky415
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To: albie

New York City is in New York, not Mississippi.


10 posted on 08/12/2021 2:59:04 AM PDT by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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To: blueplum

CLOSE THE DAM BORDER !


11 posted on 08/12/2021 3:18:02 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (The 2020 election was stolen from MY President Trump)
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Now that Cuomo resigned and his brother is on shaky ground at CNN, meet captain Andrew Cuomo and first mate Chris Cuomo on the USS Comfort. Andrew will try to redeem himself from the 15,000 deaths on his hands a year ago when he refused the help of this same ship. Stay tuned on next edition of Below Deck: Cuomo Comfort


12 posted on 08/12/2021 3:18:54 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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wouldn’t Mobile Field Hospitals be a much quicker deployment?
The ship makes headlines, of course. And, it well supports the libturd narrative.
But, if the issue is getting medical services to the State, it seems to me the Mobile Field Hospitals would be much quicker.


13 posted on 08/12/2021 3:19:20 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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Agree....Field Hospitals are the better choice. Go back to the 1918 epidemic. OUTSIDE is the better choice to start with.


14 posted on 08/12/2021 3:29:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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90 percent unvaccinated, the die is cast the narrative to follow


15 posted on 08/12/2021 3:33:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (“When the people fear the government you have tyranny, when the government fears the people you have)
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To: albie
My daughter needed medical attention in NYC yesterday and went to NYU hospital. They took her in immediately with no waiting.

New York isn't being hammered by COVID this time around.

16 posted on 08/12/2021 3:59:49 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: napscoordinator
Whoever it is, the ship should go to Mississippi as it did in New York a year ago. Obviously Mississippi is desperate for the ship. Give it to them.

Agree.

17 posted on 08/12/2021 4:03:26 AM PDT by NautiNurse (The Swiss beach volleyball team was inspired by the Jamaican bobsled team. )
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To: blueplum

Fedex package of Ivermectin, maybe?


18 posted on 08/12/2021 4:06:50 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: blueplum

Fear porn for the media.


19 posted on 08/12/2021 4:07:50 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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“Fedex package of Ivermectin, maybe?”

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Can’t have any common sense solutions, they have a pandemic to nurse and people to kill, sterilize and ostracize.


20 posted on 08/12/2021 4:14:34 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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