Posted on 08/10/2021 6:28:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Only eight intensive care unit (ICU) beds were available in Arkansas on Monday, as COVID-19 cases increase in the state and nationwide due largely to the highly infectious delta variant.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) announced that 103 people were hospitalized in the state on Monday, marking the largest single-day increase in hospitalizations.
The state reported 995 new cases on Monday and 21 additional deaths, according to Hutchinson.
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Something else I noticed...
States are making it harder and harder to easily access hospital utilization info.
What used to be done with a couple of clicks before now takes wading through screen after screen to find the info.
Read Abbots statement again, he’s just asking the hospitals to be prepared to cancel elective surgeries if that step is needed. He’s not ordered them to do anything. As for the Arkansas story, is there any independent sources that can confirm this news like Freepers who live there, if there’s not then I would be skeptical of this story. Why do so many here just believe these stories rather than waiting for the facts to come out before getting outraged.
How many are vaxed?
How manu ICU beds are normally available?
That death toll has steadily come down for the last 28 weeks.
For the last 8 weeks, the COVID death toll has been below 2,000 per week.
2,000 deaths per week is similar to the death toll during a bad influenza season.
Fauci - by the way - has been in charge of USA influenza policies for the last 35 years.
Anyone remember when Fauci shut down the country for 2,000 flu deaths per week?
I do not remember that happening, either.
I wish you were a little closer to us. I was on the phone all night last night trying to find a bed for a non-covid patient. We have never had to call different states, from last night I know there are no ICU or step down beds in Oklahoma, Kansas or Arkansas. Finally got smart and started calling northeast. Had to fly patient fixed wing to the other side of the state.
Talked to one guy in Oklahoma who was also trying to get beds - he said they were having luck in Denver and Albequerque but since it was out of state, the transport companies were requiring a $10,000 deposit up front to fly people out of state.
I’m all for don’t believe the media, sadly don’t believe our own government but I know first hand it’s crazier than before when we were in this situation. Don’t hear about as many deaths tho so I guess that’s a blessing.
Actually The USS Comfort, docked at Pier 90, treated 179 patients before leaving, most of which were COVID cases.
Initially the idea was to use Comfort as a non-COVID care unit, then COVID broke out on the ship, so they converted the mission to COVID treatment.
Not many, but it was utilized.
"And there were only 62 patients, including 26 in intensive care, on the 500-bed Comfort medical ship, which is dedicated to the sickest COVID-19 cases, an occupancy rate that remained virtually unchanged for a second day. By Saturday night, the ship had treated 100 patients."
Hospitals do not make money by having wards full of empty beds. They plan the hospital to be full all the time. They have overflow capacity for ICUs to account for unexpected surges but it’s not massive. If they have a small number of open beds than that’s exactly how they were planning to operate from day one when they opened the hospital in the first place.
Was just about to post about Abbott making a similar comment.
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Yikes! Better close EVERY business in the state AND EVERY government office from now until it’s no longer necessary!
Good vid.
Velkomen to Auschwitz? Take zee experimental medicine!
How does putting a diaper on a kids face change any of this
Is that due to actual beds full? Or, due to staffing shortages?
Most large hospitals are requiring employees to get jab.
2 people walked off job within 10 minutes of receiving notification email at hubbies hospital. They anticipate many more leaving.
We are hearing the same thing in Texas. “Don’t come to the hospital. We are just plumb out of beds. Just stay at home and die, especially if you didn’t get the jab.”
In COVID ravaged Florida, the average is less than 20%.
Something else besides COVID is obviously going on in these overwhelmed ICUs.
Do you have any insight on this?
Thanks.
The normal occupancy of ICU beds (pre covid) is about 75%. Most of those ICU beds today are filled with non covid patients. The media will not say this.
First, that sounds doubtful.
Second, why isn’t he setting up Army tents or converting schools to care facilities if this is true?
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