Posted on 08/12/2021 1:36:02 AM PDT by blueplum
Norfolk-based USNS Comfort was deployed to help treat patients in the early days of the pandemic. Mississippi health officials hope it can be deployed again.
NORFOLK, Va. — Hampton Roads could send help to one of the COVID-19 pandemic's hardest-hit states.
Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the Norfolk-based USNS Comfort to help its overloaded hospitals with COVID-19 patients, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday....
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said.
The dean warned, "The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues.”
(Excerpt) Read more at 13newsnow.com ...
Mississippi has 128 hospitals and close to 15000 beds.
I live in Mississippi. I call bullshit. Yes, we are having a surge of covid right now, but the symptoms are light in all the cases I’ve seen. Mostly sniffles. They are just trying to hype it, to scare people into taking the jab.
popcorn .....
Save your BS righteousness. They are beyond overwhelmed. You don’t see the people too sick to visit with you. They are in the overflowing ER hallways and ICU. In addition to not enough beds, there are not enough staff to care for patients. The available staff are beyond exhausted. The current situation is dire in MS.
Mississippi will probably want to buy one of Hunter's paintings to sweeten the pot. That'll help entice Biden to send the ship.
Illegals?
It’s Mississippi we are talking about. SO most likely the patients are fat black people.
I smell a rat.
https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,21994,420,873.html
Hospital stats for MS. Scroll down and check out the bit about the hospital availability tool being “revised”.
Interesting timing, eh?
And wasn't used by evil Democrats because Trump sent it.
Nor believing it. We need pictures and proof because no story or news source can even be trusted to tell simple facts.
Wonder if part of the purpose of the hospital ship is to cost shift some the state’s Medicaid burden to the federal taxpayer...
Wanna bet Medicaid patients are sent to the ship and the hospitals keep the privately insured...
No state, either.
I don’t think it’s a coinkydink that MS’s hospital utilization data isn’t available right now.
Seek and you shall find, Doubting Thomas. Take off your blinders.
Local news outlets are sending film crews to Italy as I type.
Zero ICU beds statewide (crisis) are more efficiently and effectively managed centrally, rather than locally. Not rocket science or a conspiracy.
How do we know MS is at zero ICU beds?
Thomas Dobbs, MPH, MD
Definitely trending up in MS:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/mississippi/
https://www.nmhs.net/patient-family-information/coronavirus-updates/
Previously posted...MS State Health Dept.:
https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,21994,420,873.html
and
https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,420.html#Mississippi
Local news:
https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2021/08/10/no-icu-beds-left-in-mississippi-including-warren-county/
I just looked at a number of enemedia stories...
Interestingly the story varies.
Zero ICU beds in the state. Zero ICU beds in some counties. Zero ICU beds in state’s top hospitals.
All this while the state’s hospitalization data is conveniently offline.
I say trust but verify.
If there’s a state legislator down there worthy of the description, get your staff to start calling hospitals statewide and demand an honest bed availability count.
Better yet, have them all report numbers to the legislature daily.
I smell a rat.
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