Posted on 12/05/2021 10:04:37 AM PST by EBH
CLEVELAND — University Hospitals, MetroHealth and Cleveland Clinic issued a joint statement on Friday morning to announce that due to a surge in unvaccinated patients with COVID-19 and an unprecedented demand for inpatient care across their facilities, they are near reaching full capacity and are temporarily postponing non-urgent surgeries at some locations.
More than 90% of patients in the ICUs of these hospital systems are unvaccinated, hospital officials stated.
“This means that vaccination is protecting people from severe illness,” the statement reads. “The majority of vaccinated patients who are hospitalized have underlying health conditions.”
UH is experiencing a record-high census of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and both Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth are experiencing an increase in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19.
There are currently 1,875 COVID-positive patients in hospital beds in Ohio’s hospital regions two and five, which encompass Northeast and eastern Ohio counties, according to the Ohio Department of Health. That accounts for 18.5% of available hospital beds, and with 63.9% of hospital beds currently being occupied by non-COVID patients, current available bed capacity in our area is 17.6%.
There are currently 410 ICU beds left available in regions two and five; COVID patients are occupying 465 beds, and non-COVID patients are using 1,077.
Statewide, there are currently 3,916 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, compared to 3,032 one week ago, an increase of nearly 30%.
All three hospital systems are “making adjustments” to the scheduling of non-urgent surgeries at certain locations, the release states.
“This action frees resources for patients with immediate and life-threatening needs and manages the demands on frontline caregivers, who have served with distinction throughout the pandemic,” hospital officials said.
Below are details on the timing and other actions being taken by each hospital system, from the news release:
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic will temporarily halt the scheduling of additional non-urgent inpatient surgeries requiring a hospital bed in our Ohio locations, with the exception of Euclid and Lutheran Hospitals, beginning Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 through Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Essential and urgent surgeries, as well as heart, cancer, pediatric and transplantation surgeries, and outpatient surgeries not requiring a hospital bed will continue to be scheduled during this time period. We will continue to evaluate our scheduled surgical patients as the pandemic continues.
The MetroHealth System
In response to high demand for inpatient care – involving both COVID and non-COVID cases – we have begun postponing some elective surgeries to free up space in our hospitals. We are also exercising other options, such as encouraging more use of our Hospital in the Home program, to meet the latest patient surge.
University Hospitals
University Hospitals is currently rescheduling certain non-urgent surgeries at UH Cleveland Medical Center that require an inpatient stay for a short duration of time. At this time, UH Cleveland Medical Center continues to perform urgent surgeries and outpatient surgeries and procedures that do not involve an overnight stay. University Hospitals continues to perform all types of surgeries and procedures at its community hospitals, although the situation is fluid and subject to change. University Hospitals’ physicians are seeing patients as they always have, and UH labs and testing centers are open.
While the statement from the three hospital systems urged everyone eligible to get vaccinated, UH and Cleveland Clinic on Thursday halted their policies requiring their caregivers to be vaccinated after a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers at facilities that received funding from Medicare and Medicaid.
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And the definition of “unvaccinated” please?
2 jabs, more than 14 days ago. Plus a booster.
Or you don’t have your “card” with you.
Of course unvaccinated just means they didn’t get there boosters.
And all of the patients have been denied early treatment protocols and had been sent home to fester and told to go to the hospital when there symptoms demanded hospitalization and then they bring them in to administer the organ destructive Remdisivir and eventually they try to drown them on ventilators to finish them off.
Pure unadulterated evil.
Heh, I wondered the same thing. They’re very specific in their numbers except for the ‘above 90 percent’.
I don’t believe it.
Of course unvaccinated just means they didn’t get their boosters. (Corrected their for there.)
" “This means that vaccination is protecting people from severe illness,” the statement reads. “The majority of vaccinated patients who are hospitalized have underlying health conditions.”
" UH is experiencing a record-high census of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and both Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth are experiencing an increase in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19.
I see......
I do not believe anything that comes from Chicago; news, or politicians, or the Mayor.or anything associated with Chicago.
I just don’t believe that “[m]ore than 90% of patients in the ICUs of these hospital systems are unvaccinated, hospital officials stated.”
When I read “unvaccinated”, I think that these people haven’t had any of the Covid shots at all.
But that’s not necessarily true.
Unless it has changed recently, the CDC definition of “unvaccinated” is this: less than 14 days after getting the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine.
And that means, as far as I can figure it, that if someone is in the ICU, or hospitalized, or died within 2 weeks of getting the jab, they are recorded in the hospital book as “unvaccinated”.
So, this “90% are unvaccinated” crap is just that: crap.
We’ve been lied to so much that I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Cleveland
Also unclear is why, if the vaccines work to prevent hospitalization and, most importantly, death, COVID deaths in Ohio are now up (and rather significantly so, it would seem), compared to this same time last year, when nobody had yet been vaccinated. Should we not be seeing a significant decrease in COVID deaths, now that millions of Americans have now been vaccinated? According to the CDC, as of today, 85.5% of Ohioans age 65 and above are "fully vaccinated."
People Vaccinated with at least One Dose 783,164 62.46%
People Fully Vaccinated 716,934 57.18%
Doctors who want to play more golf?
So, this “90% are unvaccinated” crap is just that: crap.
We’ve been lied to so much that I don’t know what to believe anymore.
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Do what I do. Don’t believe anything coming from any government agency or Hospital benefiting from gov payments made to them for treating the China virus.
Pay attention instead to what real Drs have to say and who have been threatened or censored for what they say.
https://data.news-leader.com/covid-19-vaccine-tracker/ohio/cuyahoga-county/39035/
Data Central COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker
and yet, Texas and Florida aren’t having this issue.
Yes this type of story is complete BS 99.9% of the time.
No treatment, sent home to fester ...
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Just happened to a good friend this past week. We gave him early treatment info & links - I’m waiting for an update.
Hospital “overcrowding” for the reasons the hospitals are giving, that being “unvaccinated” patients, is self-inflicted because the medical community will not treat early to keep them OUT of the hospital COVID death wards. For those docs who will not give any early outpatient treatment & save lives, the MD after their names stands for “Merchant of Death”.
Non essential surgery? Are we talking breast implants and nose jobs? There are a lot of surgeries that are essential, yet not an emergency. I had to wait three months for my total knee, it was essential to me, I had three months of agonizing pain. Except cosmetic, isn’t all surgery essential. You have a ruptured ovarian cyst? Take to aspirins and call me in the morning, we’ll try to squeeze you in next week. It’s not about you, it’s about the crazies.
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