Posted on 10/04/2021 1:09:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Alaska allowing hospitals to ration care as virus cases surge © Istock The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHHS) on Saturday activated crisis standards of care for 20 hospitals in the state as it struggles with the latest surge in COVID-19 cases, with some hospitals resorting to having to ration health care.
"Today’s action recognizes that Alaska has an interconnected and interdependent health care system, requiring the need for activation of the State’s decision-making framework. That framework includes a progression of conventional, contingency and crisis standards of care identifying strategies to be used depending on the situation and types of resource shortfalls being experienced," the state health department said in its announcement.
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Still waiting for just one Governor to Distribute Ivermectin to the entire State to show the others what happened in India and Africa
The data, again, does not support the Lying Media’s hysteria
https://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/epi/id/pages/COVID-19/default.aspx
I am wondering why so many COVID cases seem to run to the hospital. I had COVID (They tell me) and it was a bad case of the flu but to the hospital? I know many folks where I live that had COVID and just stayed home to recover. There must be something else going on with these people.
The HHS's own "hospital utilization" website (updated as of today, purportedly) indicates that there are 1,574 in-patient hospital beds in the state of Alaska, of which some 1,130 are currently in use (i.e., 72%). Of these, some 233 are currently filled by COVID-19 patients (i.e., 15%).
As for ICU beds specifically, the HHS reports that there are 134 staffed ICU beds in the state of Alaska, of which some 102 are currently filled (i.e., 76%). Of these filled ICU beds, 41 (i.e., 31%) have COVID-19 patients in them.
Some crisis.
For many with COVID going to the hospital is basically a death sentence. First remdesivir to fail your kidneys then onto a ventilator to finish you off for $39K bonus.
I would agree, I don’t know anyone that would go to the Hospital for Flu symptoms and most would not see a doctor either, I would bet all or most have other Serious Health Problems, but now that the COVID Hysteria is in full control, hard to say what happens next
Public assistance folks, (welfare deadbeats for us real world people) use the ER as their primary doctors.
They call 911 for colds and sore throats and demand an ambulance ride there and get it, all at tax payer expense.
Get rid of welfare deadbeats and illegals and watch hospital capacity skyrocket.
[[I am wondering why so many COVID cases seem to run to the hospital.]]
Likely by illegals to get their ‘free healthcare’ - they flood the hospitals for every little minor ache and pain- - If you ever have to go to emergency room, where you WILL have to wait hours and hours for any kind of help, look aroudn and listen- not many in there even speak English these days-
Just checked the state’s dashboard.
It’s not a CoupFlu issue.
It’s a staffing issue.
Alaska has plenty of beds and ventilators available.
It’ a staffing issue.
All Part of The Plan™
Geez unless you cannot breathe, stay outa the hospital
Once you test pos they wont let you leave, wont let you make healthcare decisions, won’t let you have family.
Fauci protocol
Remdesivir ( 25% death rate) then a vent as your kidneys fail and lungs fill with liquid
5 days and buh bye…unless they decide to keep you vented for weeks or months to collect govt money
Some desperate families managed to get loved ones out for hospice care so they could treat and save them!
More vaccination coercion drama.
Can you imagine the amount of money Alaska’s healthcare system is raking in?
It depends on what it means to “have Covid.”
My friend’s mom had Covid two months ago. It was like a sinus infection. She happened to have a doctor’s appointment— gastro— when she had it, got tested, popped positive, and he, the gastro, prescribed her, from what it sounds, HCQ and Zithro. She did fine— sort of. She got an ear infection.
She was supposed to have surgery today but tested positive for Covid, so they said she has to wait two weeks. She doesn’t really have Covid symptoms.
She really needs her colostomy fixed. I guess the surgeons hands are tied.
So it sounds like the positive Covid test, which could have picked up Covid remnants, gave the hospital an excuse to postpone surgery.
But what if they decided she really couldn’t wait and they had to do the surgery anyway? Would she be a Covid case?
The gastro issues have been there for years.
>>It’s not a CoupFlu issue.
>>It’s a staffing issue.
Which doesn’t change the problem. Wether the ‘beds’ are 100% full, or 50% full, if you only have enough staff to work 33% of them, you have a problem - a crisis even.
My local hospital system currently has over 800 unfilled positions they are trying to hire for.
>>Once you test pos they wont let you leave,
Not true at all, did you just make that up?
Except one problem is self-induced and the other is not.
If there is no bed space because of a surge in people needing medical care, there is little the hospital or the authorities can do except react.
On the other hand, the State of New York's largest private health care provider just fired 1,400 employees who refused the Covid shot, which was a requirement mandated by the state.
If New York does not currently have enough health care providers, the fault lies with the governor and nobody else; this crisis would be completely man-made.
(One of these two problems can literally be solved within hours.)
Absolutely right!
Very sad.
Fauci protocol
Remdesivir ( 25% death rate) then a vent as your kidneys fail and lungs fill with liquid
5 days and buh bye…unless they decide to keep you vented for weeks or months to collect govt money
Some desperate families managed to get loved ones out for hospice care so they could treat and save them!
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