Posted on 01/14/2022 1:21:26 PM PST by matt04
Massachusetts hospital executives, terrified over the crush of coronavirus patients threatening to overwhelm the state’s health care infrastructure, issued a dire warning Friday to the public as caregivers are now “beyond the point of exhaustion.”
The commonwealth has just days — not weeks — to change the trajectory of the omicron surge, said Steve Walsh, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association.
“We are counting on the people of the commonwealth to take this message seriously and help lift our providers up in their greatest time of need,” Walsh said in a statement. “There is nothing our healthcare organizations care about more than being there for their patients and communities.”
In mid-December, Walsh had already sounded the alarm to lawmakers, describing the post-Thanksgiving spike in hospitalizations as “terrifying.” At the time, he warned hospital capacity was stretched more than ever and putting pressure on health care workers “every single day.”
People must mask at all times in public, as well as get vaccinated and boosted as soon as people, to preserve hospital resources, the association pleaded.
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For now, the association said, weary health care personnel leave work only to find people unmasked people in supermarkets and other settings that can easily spread infections.
“We must continue to fuel their hope through the decisions we make every day,” the association said.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
“The commonwealth has just days — not weeks — to change the trajectory of the omicron surge”
It looks like reported new cases in Massachusetts has just peaked, on 11 January: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases
According to wastewater analysis in Massachusetts, total viral load in the community seems to have peaked about a week earlier.
Over the next few weeks, we should see new cases and hospitalizations nose dive.
“Stop your whining and get to work, people.”
It would be less tacky if they expressed concern for the sick rather than themselves.
Exactly. Just like they planned for a winter surge last year, theoretically and we weren’t in as bad of shape. This year, apparently all the experts decided Covid was over, possibly because Biden said we beat the virus on the Fourth of July or something like that, then these idiots pair themselves on the back and then got caught off guard when Oma Cron came through and the vaccine made no difference.
Then, they want to turn around and blame everyone else for their failure and leader ship and planning. Even if Covid did go away over the summer, they should have been prepared for a potentially bad flu season, etc. Or any other respiratory illness that is popular this time of year that would increase hospitalizations. They did none of that.
Well, if that is the picture of health, I don’t know what it is. He could stand to lose just a bit of weight and that is just based on his face and neck, never mind the rest of him. The local department of public health, I mean compliance, in a nearby town recently reinstate a mask mandate because they were something like 800 positive cases in a week. Of course, they never said how many those required hospitalization or any medical care but just based it off the cases.
Someone Send me a screenshot of the zoom meeting, of course, it was too dangerous for them to meet in person, and the three members on the Board of Health were all morbidly obese women who probably could have stood to lose a good hundred pounds or more each.
TWO YEARS TO PREPARE
LOL. No wonder they were so scared of Covid.
You’d lose that bet.
Hospitals are over run.
The Mass. Hospital CEO’s did a horrible job
of making their case.
There are some empty med/surg units in hospitals because of lack of staffing but ER’s and ICU’s are full.
People must mask at all times in public, as well as get vaccinated and boosted
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The liturgy of the covidians.
A box of donuts doesn’t have a prayer with that guy.
I remember watching a 550 lb man telling a 350 lb woman to lose weight during a blood test. I tried my best not to laugh my ass off.
“Massachusetts hospital executives” = Communists
Wait until the Pi, Rho, Sigma, and Tau variants hit them in addition to the medical conditions of those suffering from adverse effects of the Jim Jones Jab.
I know that guy( not personally)he’s a large fella. Typical MA left wing hack , went from state rep to that job. Probably payback for helping get something thru that helped the hospitals etc. You know the drill.
His mother was in local politics actually a very nice lady he’s a donkey
Based on everything I’ve read the trajectory is about to change.
Funny how firing a quarter to a third of your staff impacts
things isn’t it.
Enjoy!
The MA hospital ICU occupancy stats:
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend/massachusetts
Let me guess. She and her colleagues are also sick and tired of hospital administrators squeezing the nursing staff to increase their profits. The hospital administrators should stop whining about how overworked their staff are and explain to everyone why they didn't hire enough staff, and have structured hospitals that originally had a mission of helping society into businesses focused on profits.
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