New York state coronavirus cases soar to about 1,700, hospitalizing 19%

cnbc ^ | MAR 17 2020 | Berkeley Lovelac e Jr. Noah Higgins-Dunn

[RomanSoldier19]

New York officials say the state’s coronavirus total has jumped to 1,700, with at least 19% hospitalized. They said the number of cases will continue to rise as the state receives more test results. New York has 53,000 hospital beds and 3,000 ICU beds, far short of what state health officials are predicting will be needed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

[lepton]

There have been a few cases like that.

[Vaquero]

Turned 71 in February.
They say 70 is the new 50. To me 70 was the new 80.

[laplata]

You’re right on about the ages.

Mine is Feb. 8.

A belated Happy Birthday.

[Elsie]

Hospital ships and MASH units being activated, …

I think that CRUISE ships have a LOT more beds than hospital ships!

[Elsie]

I noticed

[narses]

Yawn. You are an idiot.

[Elsie]

Comfort is more advanced than a field hospital but less capable than a traditional hospital on land.

 

Capt. Dean Bradford, master of Comfort,

greets Princess Anne on 11 July 2002

while the ship was docked in Southampton, UK

 

 

USNS Comfort's Engine Room

 

 

Hospital beds inside Comfort while in Peru in 2018

---

General characteristics

• Patient capacity:
  • Intensive care wards: 80 beds
  • Recovery wards: 20 beds
  • Intermediate care wards: 280 beds
  • Light care wards: 120 beds
  • Limited care wards: 500 beds
  • Total Patient Capacity: 1000 beds
  • Operating Rooms: 12

• Departments and facilities:
  • Casualty reception
  • Intensive care unit
  • Radiological services
  • Main laboratory plus satellite lab
  • Central sterile receiving
  • Medical supply/pharmacy
  • Physical therapy and burn care
  • Dental services
  • Optometry/lens lab
  • Morgue
  • Laundry
  • Oxygen producing plants (two)
  • Medical Photography
  • Four distilling plants to make drinking water from sea water (300,000 US gallons (1,100,000 l; 250,000 imp gal) per day)

[Vaquero]

A belated Happy Birthday.....yourself

[MacMattico]

Yes

[MacMattico]

Thank you,

[DrewsMum]

Thank you. That seemed awful high.

[DrewsMum]

Thank you. I clearly wasn’t paying attention

[PA Engineer]

Since it’s an upper respiratory disease, the description you cited was pretty accurate

ACE2 protein is expressed bilaterally in the low areas of the lung where this virus binds.

Are you saying COVID-19 (China Plague) is a upper respiratory illness? Do you know where else it infects?

[SoCal Pubbie]

I was referring to the other poster’s comment to equating Covid-19 to a cold in the most superficial way. I wasn’t submitting a peer reviewed study.