More than 40 Texas hospitals face ICU bed shortages

The Hill ^ | 10/19/2021 | MONIQUE BEALS

[ChicagoConservative27]

Hospitals in Texas have reported an increased number of full intensive care units (ICUs) as the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to ravage communities.

According to data released Monday, 42 Texas hospitals reported that their ICU beds were filled to capacity between Oct. 8 and Oct. 14.

The data is released by the federal government's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on a weekly basis and accounts for about 200 Texas hospitals that have more than four ICU patients or four staffed ICU beds. Other hospitals with smaller ICU departments also reported data to HHS.

[fuzzylogic]

Exactly...by design. People don’t understand the business side of running a hospital. You’re not going to allocate 50 beds for COVID if you have a running average of 4 needed at any given time.

It’s far too easy for the media to distort reality here. If they’re at 90% capacity then somebody is correctly doing their job of resource allocation. The media translation “they’re almost out of CCOVID beds!”.

Aggravates me no end...

[DoughtyOne]

How could that be? There are so many people vaccinated out
there.

[so_real]

We are on to this trick already. We know it is a staff shortage not a bed shortage. The tyrannical bastards speak with forked tongues. End the mandates for mRNA gene therapy and see how quickly the bed count goes back to normal.

[fatman6502002]

This is total BS and to say the least it is Berlin_Freeper level propaganda.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[indthkr]

"Whenever anything in Texas is too crowded the first thing that should come to mind are illegal immigrants."

Where's Greg Abbott?

[mewzilla]

Something else to keep in mind.

Nosocomial cases might be an issue here, especially with all-vaxxed staff.

I wonder if vaxxed staff are still subject to testing...

In any case, it’s likely staff are coming in sick, intentionally or on purpose, and are spreading the coof to patients.

[OVERTIME]

Yes, something is very wrong with this report about Texas.

According to CovidActNow.com, here is how Texas is doing today, compared to 7 weeks ago on September 1st.

Hospitalizations - down 60%
New Cases - down 70%
Deaths - down 33% (Deaths are a lagging indicator).

Compared to other states, Texas is in the bottom 3rd for new cases, and the bottom 10% for infection rate.

Currently, the highest infection rates are currently in heavily vaccinated New England.

BTW, the entire South is doing far better than the rest of the country. Especially low is Florida. Its 5th lowest in new cases, and 4th lowest for rate of infection.

Finally, in Texas, the number of premeditated murders has dropped by over 90% (110 per day) since Sept 1st, when new legislation making most abortions illegal came into effect

[Dr. Sivana]

I am not causing any ICU shortages, as I do not work in a hospital and I am not a patient. My wife has strict orders NOT to send me to the hospital if I am sick, but to treat at home without hospital styles of treatment (and non-treatment), so folka like me are NOT stressing the system. We don’t TRUST the system.

[al_c]

Liars. Covid numbers in Texas have dropped from 22k to 5k over the last month.

[Hattie]

Please name these hospitals and their specific locations.

[Manuel OKelley]

yep, and cases are dropping fast as well

[americas.best.days...]

This tells me that in about 4days we’ll be reading a story about a sweet old guy that tried to be admitted to 37 hospitals, but they all denied him and his last words as he clutched his chest and died in his driveway was “ I just wish I would have got the vaccine!! “

[T.B. Yoits]

Hospitals got burned at the beginning of the Scamdemic and lost a fortune due to canceled surgeries and other treatments. They shut down their COVID wards and won't reopen them. The few hospitals that still have COVID wards shrunk them as small as they could and now get ALL the patients in the region.

They can't release many of them because the nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities won't take them back.

[Zathras]

Nonsense from The Hill...again.

[FlipWilson]

They sky is made of steel.

Report to follow on CNN and the rest.

[airborne]

Blame it on the weather...

Global Covid Climate Change! (GCCC)

[zeugma]

# They run at 80 to 90 percent all the time...

By design. An empty bed is not making money.

[so_real]

"Finally, in Texas, the number of premeditated murders has dropped by over 90% (110 per day) since Sept 1st, when new legislation making most abortions illegal came into effect"

I see what you did there, and it was awesome!

[mass55th]

"The majority of COVID-19 patients in the Texas hospitals and ICU beds are unvaccinated, according to the Tribune."

That's the Austin-based Texas Tribune, which I believe is a liberal rag. August 2021 false story:

Texas Tribune erroneously reports 5,800 children were hospitalized due to COVID in first week of August

Lying liars. The true number was 783, and who knows if that was even factual. Washington Composter Jennifer Rubin fell for the false statistics, and shared it in her tweets, only taking it down after it was proven to be a false story.