Posted on 07/17/2020 7:31:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As novel coronavirus cases in Florida continue to soar, 49 hospitals across the state have reached full intensive care unit (ICU) bed capacity. That's according to the latest report from Florida's Agency For Health Care Administration.
The ICUs in at least three Florida counties—Nassau, Okeechobee and Putnam—were said to have reached full bed capacity.
A total of 971 ICU beds were reported to be available across the state, nearly 16 percent of the state's total number of ICU beds, as of Thursday.
More than a third (23) of Florida's 67 counties were reported to have less than 10 ICU beds available.
Eight hospitals in Miami-Dade, the state's most populous county, were reported to have hit full ICU bed capacity, with only around 15 percent of their total ICU beds available.
Hospitalizations in Florida have reached at least 19,334, according to the latest report from the Florida Department of Health.
Earlier this week, daily new cases in Florida, whose residents form about seven percent of the total U.S. population, were reported to make up nearly 25 percent of the country's total daily case count.
Over a quarter of the state's total cases are in Miami-Dade County, which has seen 72,317 confirmed infections to date.
The number of active cases in Florida began to rise on a sharper incline from about mid-June. Several reopened bars in Florida were closed again after customers tested positive for the virus.
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Political enemies of POTUS appear to be deliberately spreading COVID-19 in key election states. It is all about mass voting.
Saw a FB post from Winter Haven hospital showing what’s supposedly a picture of a FL Emergency Mgt. mobile ICU unit set up there.
Complete fabrication.
Fewer than, not less than :-) <— grammar nazi ...
But I’d find it much more informative to know percent ICU beds occupied and length of stay/ turnover of rooms.
Raw numbers are just a scare tactic.
OK, now I will go back and read the article.
Agree
Newsweek? Really? They’re about as trustworthy as CNN or MSNBC.
Biased to the max.
these are tiny sparsly populated counties and probably have tiny hsptls if one at all.
ICU beds are few.
Lets see stats for major densely populated Fl counties
Because patients who needed surgeries or those who had an emergent incident went to the hospital. This scare tactic is more Panic Porn
So, go through the hospital and find out who is actually in the beds. Why not do something like that?
Especially since it’s being learned that folks in the Sunshine state have been drastically overstating and putting out fraudulent numbers.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-35-investigates-florida-department-of-health-says-some-labs-have-not-reported-negative-covid-19-results ..... The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-charles-lockwood-florida-coronavirus-cases-increase ..... “We are picking up asymptomatic cases, [and] picking up milder cases than we did before,” Lockwood said. “When you test this number of people, thousands and thousands — really, if you think about it, we are approaching one percent of the population in Florida being tested every day.”
Apparently, someone got caught swabbing one person, up each nostril - test came back positive - but was being logged as 2 positive cases.
All because of the money involved and, most importantly, because one man happens to the President of the United States.
Looks like all the face-diapering and anti-social distancing isn’t working out so well, is it? (A virus just being a virus, y’know! ... running it’s course no matter what the tyrants dictate to “stop it from spreading”)
so the article could be titled... “2/3 of Florida Counties Not Substantially Impacted By Covid19”
RE: these are tiny sparsly populated counties and probably have tiny hsptls if one at all.
See Post #9 above.
Seminole County for instance, has a population close to 500,000. The list tells us that it has only 2 ICU beds available now.
OK so overall they have about 14% available ICU beds in FL. What is normal?
Also ICU rooms protect the staff, due to ventilation and other factors. So even if the patient doesn’t require INTENSIVE care, COVID positive patients often go into ICU aka the COVID floor because it’s the best place for staff and patient safety. NOT necessarily because the patient is soooooo sick, just Covid +
My wife has been a nurse for 35 years. All of those have been spent in Emergency, Critical Care and Cath Lab.
Her response to these stories -- NEVER in her career has there been a day where ICU was NOT completely full. They were always holding patients in the Cath lab or in the hall in the Emergency room waiting for an ICU or CCU bed to come open.
How many ICU beds to they normally have? Some counties are pretty rural.
They had four months to prepare. Why didn’t they?
here is the source—
Newsweek must believe there are impenetrable walls around each county and that patients cannot be transported outside the county boundaries.
The low life media is working overtime to make the public believe that all of us in Florida are going to die because Trump is going to make his acceptance speech in Jacksonville.
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