” It’s a huge lie every damn bit of it.. “
And you work at a hospital?! You deny that elective procedures are being cancelled? You affirm that you’re a moron?
I do work at a hospital. I know they are cancelling surgeries, and I’m not a moron.
You must be a janitor in a hospital based on your replies.
Elective procedures being canceled is done in states through government intervention and piss poor hospital management whose only concern is $$.
No elective procedures canceled around where I live. No massive spike and hospitalizations. Florida is doing fine... As of today:
COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATIONS IN FLORIDA There were 1,411 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Tuesday report. This data is reported from 234 Florida hospitals. That is eight more people than in Monday’s report, when 258 hospitals reported. COVID-19 patients take up 2.61% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.48% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals. Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 296 were in intensive care unit beds, an increase of five. That represents about 4.76% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.69% the previous day.
Minnesota’s ICU capacity (including those available at 72 hours notice) stood at 1,929 on November 15th. This was 229 ICU beds (10.6%) fewer than there were as recently as early October (as of today it is down even further, to 1,848). Indeed, it is 839 beds (30.3%) down from the state’s ICU capacity of 2,768 beds in April. As of November 15th, Minnesota’s ICU beds were 58.5% occupied. If ICU capacity had been maintained at the level of early October, that number would be down to 52.3%. Why did Minnesota get rid of 839 ICU beds? Money and staffing…
As of yesterday 12/13/2021 there were 352 ICU beds housing covid patients (Source: https://mn.gov/covid19/data/response-prep/response-capacity.jsp). Of the 1848 you have that’s slightly less that 20% being used for covid. 824 are being used for non-covid issues which is just under 45% so the combined to ICU bed capacity in Minnesota is at ~ 65%.
Had they kept the 2,768 ICU beds they used to have back in April of this year you’d be even better off with a number around 42% capacity.