Hospital Systems Beginning To Collapse

Jack said:
This is probably Fake News. I wouldn't worry about it. The Shield of Jesus will Protect the True Believers.
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Cambodia is better at innoculating it's citizens than GOP

Hospital Systems Beginning To Collapse
Hospital Systems On The Verge Of Failure As Delta Rages In The South
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The vaccination rate in Cambodia is higher than in Arkansas, Idaho, Alabama, Tennessee, Wyoming, Mississippi, Georgia.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hospital Systems On The Verge Of Failure As Delta Rages In The South

Coronavirus news is coming fast and furious, as the delta variant fuels another surge in cases across the U.S.

Arkansas set a record for hospitalizations, while officials in one Florida county are urging residents to "consider other options" before calling 911. Health officials in Mississippi say the state's hospital system could collapse in five to 10 days if the current trajectory continues.

Current vaccines protect against severe disease, hospitalization and death — and institutions across the country are strengthening their vaccine requirements and guidance.

More spaces are now requiring vaccinations, or penalizing people who don't get the shot. The Department of Defense is moving to require vaccines for service members, and the federal Health and Human Services department is ordering them for its thousands of healthcare workers. Plus, several small colleges say they will charge unvaccinated students an extra fee.

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Residents in one Florida county are being asked to "consider other options" before calling 911

Officials in Brevard County, on Florida's east coast, are urging residents to "consider other options before taxing ambulance services with non-emergency calls and showing up at the ER for a COVID test when other test sites are available," according to its emergency management office.

All three of the county's hospital systems are already over capacity and have had to implement surge plans that involve canceling elective procedures and converting regular rooms into COVID-19 spaces, said Brevard County Emergency Director John Scott.

Statewide, 90% of Florida's intensive care beds are full.

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Mississippi's hospital system could collapse in days

Hospital leaders at the University of Mississippi Medical Center say the state's medical system is on the verge of failure due to an influx in COVID-19 patients, staff shortages and dwindling ICU capacity.

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Arkansas set a new state record for hospitalizations

The state reported 1,376 new hospitalizations on Monday, surpassing a record it set in January. Health officials said there were just eight intensive care unit beds available in the entire state.

The State Of Arkansas Has Only 8 Empty ICU Beds, As COVID-19 Cases Resurge.

Dr. Cam Patterson, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, told NPR's Debbie Elliott yesterday that the average COVID-19 patient was over 60 a year ago, but is now 40. Some 20% of the medical center's patients have been pregnant moms, he added.
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no they're not.

more fake news.
 
"By The Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday issued a state of emergency as state hospitals face a surge in COVID-19 cases, an order that came the same day the state tied a record low for available intensive care unit beds.

Ivey issued a limited state of emergency aimed at giving medical providers flexibility on staffing and capacity decisions and easier shipment of emergency equipment and supplies. The Republican governor stressed she would not be issuing any closure orders or mask mandates.

”I want to be abundantly clear: there will be absolutely no statewide mandates, closures or the like. This state of emergency is strategically targeted at removing bureaucracy and cutting red tape wherever we can to allow our doctors, nurses and hospital staff to treat patients that come through their doors,” Ivey said in a statement.

The order came as medical providers described a “tidal wave” of COVID-19 cases that is putting severe stress on Alabama hospitals. The state on Friday tied the record low for available intensive care unit beds with just 39 vacant beds statewide, said Dr. Don Williamson, the former state health officer who now heads the Alabama Hospital Association."

The Latest: Alabama Gov Issues State of Emergency Amid Surge
 
"SALT LAKE CITY -- Coronavirus patients are filling Utah hospitals beyond capacity.

Officials with the state’s largest health care system said Friday that intensive care units are at 102% capacity.

Intermountain Healthcare doctors say about 90% of the hospitalized coronavirus patients are not vaccinated.

Infectious disease physicians say the surge driven by the highly contagious delta variant is especially concerning as the new school year begins without a mask mandate for children who cannot yet be vaccinated. Officials worry about school outbreaks that could spread to kids’ families. The latest surge has also taken a heavy toll on healthcare workers’ morale.

Patients Fill Utah's Hospitals Beyond Capacity
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
It's easy to tell. Take a similar period in time in the recent past, average how many ICU beds were occupied during that period, and compare it to today. You'll find that the average has drastically risen.
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Or perhaps he can explain the 15,000 patient increase since June. A sudden rash of mosquito bites maybe? Good grief, the denials are mindnumbingly stupid.
 
Hospital Systems Beginning To Collapse

Hospital leaders

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Dr. Alan Jones, the center's associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs

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verge of failure due to an influx in COVID-19 patients, staff shortages and dwindling ICU capacity.

Define failure

THE SKY IS FALLING ... THE SKY IS FALLING ...

Will the hospitals turn into sand ???

This is the same crap cum-o came up with and The Donald sent a hospital ship (never used) and built a massive portable hospital (hardly used)

The dimlib adage of never let a crisis go to waste is alive and well ... STILL

The ship and portable hospital are still available ...

THE SKY IS FALLING ... THE SKY IS FALLING ...
 
The southern states are being creamed by Covid. You would think even the right would eventually get the message. Vaccines and masks work. pretending Covid is inconsequential is putting the people in ICUs. it is so sad what anti-science,pro-trump beliefs are doing to the people. it may be that Trump is getting more powerful in the right as the suffering and illness continues. There has to be some explanation why? Are they that conned by Trump?
 
'Impossible to find' empty ICU, ER beds in Middle Tennessee, hospital chief medical officer says

" The chief medical officer of a hospital in Middle Tennessee said it was impossible 'to find an empty, staffed ICU, ER or med/surg bed,' in the region on Thursday night, as COVID-19 cases have surged in the area.

The hospital in Gallatin shared Dr. Geoff Lifferth's post from the facility's official social medial account on Thursday night as a note from the chief medical officer at Sumner Regional Medical Center.

"No beds.

There are no beds.

In Middle Tennessee right now it is impossible to find an empty, staffed ICU, ER, or med/surg bed. As an ER doc and a healthcare administrator, this past week has been one of the most exhausting and disheartening of my career.

The delta variant has burned through us with a ferocity that’s hard to describe. 6 weeks ago there were 200 Covid patients in hospitals in Tennessee. Today there are 2000. A 1000% increase. In 6 weeks. It has overwhelmed tired doctors, nurses and healthcare systems that were already stretched thin."
 
‘Every hospital is quite full’ in Washington as delta variant of coronavirus spreads

"Health care leaders are again becoming increasingly worried about hospital capacity in Washington as intensive care units and emergency rooms start to fill up, driven by the spread of the extremely transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus among unvaccinated residents.

Cassie Sauer, president and CEO of the Washington State Hospital Association, said during a Monday news conference that the delta variant, which now is responsible for most new cases of infection in the state, is one of the biggest concerns among health leaders. It’s particularly “demoralizing” for staff to care for very sick COVID-19 patients when they’re not vaccinated, she added.

“It is scary and emotionally draining and very physically exhausting work to care for COVID patients,” Sauer said. “And to know that this is a preventable disease at this point, that people can take an easy action to protect themselves from getting this sick, is really challenging.”"
 
With no beds, hospitals ship patients to far-off cities

"MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them hundreds of miles to far-flung states for treatment.

The surge in the delta variant of the virus, combined with low vaccination rates, has pushed hospitals to the brink in many states and resulted in a desperate scramble to find beds for patients.

The issue is that large hospitals in urban areas already were running short of space and staff with non-COVID procedures like cancer biopsies and hip replacements when the summer surge started. That means they have very few free beds to offer to patients from small rural hospitals without ICUs or from medical centers in virus hotspots.

“Just imagine not having the support of your family near, to have that kind of anxiety if you have someone grow acutely ill,” said Steve Edwards, CEO of CoxHealth, whose hospital in Springfield, Missouri, is treating patients from as far away as Alabama.

Hospitals across the U.S. had more than 75,000 coronavirus patients as of last week, a dramatic increase from a few weeks ago but still well below the winter surge records. However, Florida, Arkansas, Oregon, Hawaii, Louisiana and Mississippi all have set pandemic records for COVID hospitalizations in recent weeks."
 
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