Hospital Systems Beginning To Collapse

Cassie Sauer, president of the Washington State Hospital Association. said as of Thursday morning there were 1,240 people with coronavirus in state hospitals. The previous highest number was about 1,100 in December.

DOUBLING EVERY TWO WEEKS:

Hospitals are still really, really full across the state,” Sauer said at a news conference.

Hospitals are also seeing more people due the effects of recent heat waves, smoke from wildfires and injuries due to summer activities.

Sauer said until the recent uptick in cases and hospitalizations due to the delta variant the COVID-19 hospitalization rate in the state had been holding steady at about 300 to 350 people. The numbers began increasing in early July and have been doubling about every two weeks.

There has been a slight slowing in the COVID admissions recently, but Sauer said it's too early to say if that's a trend.

To help free up capacity Sauer said hospitals have been working with the state to move other patients who can be discharged into places like long-term care facilities

“We will have plenty of capacity if we can move patients out,” she said.

Washington Hospitals See Record Number of COVID-19 Patients

Notice the huge spike on the right side of this curve...

Graph of New Cases in Washington State:

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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.
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actually that sounds like pretty good advice......
 
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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NOT BECAUSE OF YOUR BELOVED PANDEMIC, LYING SACK OF SHIT.



August 18, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 48
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 151
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 289
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 95
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 23
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,211
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 89%
August 17, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 60
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 148
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 292
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 92
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 25
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,092
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 84%
August 16, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 60
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 148
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 292
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 92
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 25
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,092
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 84%
August 13, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 49
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 140
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 300
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 79
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 8
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,093
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 84%
August 12, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 56
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 133
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 307
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 71
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 21
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,212
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 89%
August 11, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 40
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 137
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 303
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 65
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 26
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,171
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 87%
August 10, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 35
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 147
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 293
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 65
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU: 26
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,148
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 86%
August 9, 2021

Total ICU Beds in Hospitals: 345
ICU Beds Available: 55
Total Reported Ventilators in Hospitals: 440
In-Use Ventilators in Hospitals: 140
Available Ventilators in Hospitals: 300
Total COVID-19 Patients in DC Hospitals: 56
Total COVID-19 Patients in ICU:19
Total Patients in DC Hospitals (COVID and non-COVID): 2,031
Percentage of pre-COVID Hospital Bed Capacity: 82%



https://coronavirus.dc.gov/page/hospital-status-data
 
guno said:
I'ma liddle bigot
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"As the coronavirus continues to sweep Tennessee, all intensive care unit beds are currently full at most hospitals in every major metropolitan area in the state, according to the Tennessee Hospital Association.

Metro-area hospitals, in addition to treating the most patients, normally accept transfers of the sickest patients from other hospitals. But when their ICUs are full, it creates a ripple that “affects the health care system statewide,” said Dr. Wendy Long, president of the hospital association.

“This means that if you or a loved one need treatment for any type of serious healthcare, problem like a severe injury, heart attack, or stroke, you may not be able to access the care you need, when you need it,” Long said in a statement on Thursday morning."

All ICU beds full at most hospitals in every major Tennessee metro area, says hospital association
 
"Napier and Danielle Taylor, the director of nursing, told the skeptical commissioners that the best way to deal with the threat of COVID is by getting vaccinated and wearing masks.

Oak Hill Hospital CEO Mickey Smith laid out the numbers and warned that on Wednesday night, Aug. 11, the hospital was in a dire situation, with 133 COVID patients of more than 300 total, and five nursing units in use to care for COVID patients. He said there were 25 COVID patients in the intensive-care unit, and 17 of them on ventilators, ranging in age from 25 to 75. There were 108 patients in the 29-bed emergency room."

Hernando Florida health officials detail dire situations of hospitals, EMS
 
The real reason we have a shortage of equipment and rooms is our for-profit medical system. They do not want to carry excess equipment and extra beds. They are on-time business. Profits max when you run at the edge of need. So we have a pandemic, they cannot cover it.
Out system is not built for the people. It is for investors and management.
 
Hello Nordberg,

Nordberg said:
The real reason we have a shortage of equipment and rooms is our for-profit medical system. They do not want to carry excess equipment and extra beds. They are on-time business. Profits max when you run at the edge of need. So we have a pandemic, they cannot cover it.
Out system is not built for the people. It is for investors and management.
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That is such an excellent point. A more socialist style of running a health care system would logically seek to be better prepared for any contingency since it is goal oriented instead of profit oriented.
 
We have a good-old-boy medical education system which seeks to limit the number of qualified doctors.

What we need is a system which seeks to expand the number to at least match the expanding population, and better yet, to match the greater expanding demand.
 
Ugly Monday.

Ohio refusing requests to take ICU patients from other States:

Ohio Hospitals Getting Requests From States Overwhelmed By COVID

"UC Health in Cincinnati got a request to transfer a patient from Alabama but had to turn them away too.

This comes as some hospitals say they’re being pushed close to capacity and have to consider options such as postponing elective procedures. There’s been a statewide, 10-fold increase in COVID patients in the last two months.

This isn’t just happening in Ohio. Other states are reporting getting calls about transferring patients from areas where there are no more hospital or ICU beds.

Texas has reported being overwhelmed with COVID cases for more than two weeks. Alabama ran out of ICU beds several days ago. Florida, Georgia and Louisiana are also reportedly nearing or exceeding hospital and/or ICU bed capacity.

(NPR has a tool to research how full hospitals are and where overcrowding might be happening here.)

UC Health said it sometimes will take in a patient from another state if they are an Ohio resident. "
 
Hello Nordberg,

Nordberg said:
Doctors are suffering from the job that rightys are forcing them to do with anti-science beliefs. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-icu-doctor-covid_n_612c46dde4b09266434d906f Rightys on this board have so much wrong and help make others suffer. The left asks them to get vaccinated. That is all.
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"“It is very difficult. If it wasn’t for my wife and my kids to go home to,” he said, his voice breaking. “It’s even harder when it’s your friends.”

Wiping away tears, he said that one of his current patients is the father of one of his son’s classmates.

“He’s not expected to make it. He was not vaccinated,” he said. “And I also have an ICU nurse that just delivered a baby and didn’t take the vaccine because she didn’t know if it was safe or not.”

“It’s not her fault. It’s not anyone’s fault. We just urge people to take the vaccine because we don’t want to lose anybody else.”

While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has urged constituents to get the safe and effective vaccine, he has resisted imposing any restrictions, even after the alarming escalation of cases. He has claimed that his state chose “freedom over Fauci-ism,” in a reference to the nation’s top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, and last month issued an executive order prohibiting mask mandates in schools.

A judge blocked that order last week, deeming it unlawful."

I just don't know how stories like this fail to reach the vaccine hold-outs. That's so cold.

Florida ICU Doctor Breaks Down In Tears Describing How Much This Touches Him.
 
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