Posted on 04/04/2020 3:57:54 PM PDT by NRx
The night had been particularly tough. Patient after patient had to be intubated and put on a ventilator to breathe. At one point, three “codes” — emergency interventions when someone is on the brink of death — occurred at once.
Dr. Joshua Rosenberg, a critical care doctor, arrived the next morning at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Within hours, he was racing down the stairwell from the main intensive care unit on the sixth floor to a temporary one on the third, where he passed one of his favorite medical students.
“Shouldn’t you be home?” he asked, registering surprise. Clinical rotations for students had been halted to avoid exposing them to the coronavirus. “My mom’s here,” the student replied.
Dr. Rosenberg, 45, let out an expletive and asked which bed she was in. “I’m rounding there now,” he said and made sure the student had his cellphone number.
Earlier, residents from the I.C.U. had presented their cases to Dr. Rosenberg and others, speaking in shorthand and at auctioneer-like speed. There were so many patients to get through last Monday:
“Admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to likely Covid-19.”
“Admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to confirmed Covid-19.”
“Admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure, high suspicion of Covid-19.”
Nearly every person lying in a bed in the new intensive care unit, just as in the main one, was breathing with the help of a mechanical ventilator.
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If the Nazis at the NYT wrote it, it’s bullsh*t.
the NY fatality number does need proper scrutiny.
banned in NYC: no joke
Not a “Right To Try” state.
All of them from Covid-19? And you believe Cuomo’s numbers why?
In a city of 8 million.
How many did each day anyway? Not being snarky, but let’s keep it in perspective.
Sure AGREE with you on that.
Story is written like a script for "Criminal Intent."
Im in NJ. Walking my dog I noticed people are a little less oblivious today. Saw two mask wearers out of 20 or so people. Neighbors socializing with some distance. Neighbors boyfriend spotted my newly ‘off the track’ sliding door screen and asked if he could fix it. Heaven sent!
I’m still more concerned about what will happen to my dog if I get sick than I am about getting sick. But I know God will provide.. He Always does!
You are an ahole.
Fellow citizens are dying now 1000 a day and you think it’s a joke
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Flu > 1000 day
Cancer > day
Many other causes also.
Economy not shut down for them.
Prove shutting down economy is helping. You can’t.
But I am an uncaring ahole for telling the truth.
How many suicides could have been prevented by not shutting down the country?
Who is the ahole?
Putting things into perspective.
Agreed. Melodramatic.
The ship most likely is not setup for isolating patients. They’re actively screening for evidence of the virus and refusing those patients.
The ship’s mission is to relieve hospitals of non-viral patients.
I spent years in 1,000 bed hospitals in major urban centers. It would have been unusual to have more than 20 or 30 people on vents at one time in those hospitals. Sounds like they are getting more than that now.
The ship just got contaminated.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-patients-delivered-comfort-ship-new-york-mistake
In today’s society, you hear a lot of stories.
On one side are those about how NYC’s emergency rooms and ICU units are near the breaking point.
On the other side are some saying (especial on OANN’s Facebook site and even a bit on FR) that it’s not as bad as the media and Cuomo are making it out to be.
I have no family or connections to NYC so I can’t verify anything. Are there any Freepers out there who may have some inside angle or better info than just relying on Curomo and the MSM?
Believe the numbers or not. It’s your choice.
The Comfort & he Mercy were both brought to their new dockings TO TAKE THE PATIENTS THAT DID NOT HAVE THE VIRUS-—It was to isolate non-virus hospital admissions from the virus patients.
Comfort has 1000 beds available. I think Mercy is similar.
You are.
Clearly.
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