We called this months ago. We knew that once we reopened the hospitals that were short staffed and are now taking on increased loads because other hospitals closed down permanently from the shut down that they would be hit hard with everyone coming in at once. This whole fucking hoax is playing out exactly like we knew it would.
I know a person through work that works at parkland memorial in Dallas, and she's basically been saying "no we're full now because we're trying to take care of all the people who had surgeries delayed on top of an increase in covid patients".
She even talked about how the patients coming in were younger, needing respirators less (mostly just enriched oxygen) and needing less hospitalization time too, so they're churning out people from the covid ward faster. Also talked about how they're emptying out the hospital as fast as possible to send all the non-covid patients to other hospitals since parkland is the newest in the area and best equipped to handle the pandemic.
It's fucking insane how they don't even bother to talk to people who work in the hospitals for 5 minutes..
The Houston hospital CEOs stated: we ALWAYS operate ICU and all bets at a high occupancy (because having normal 25% would be stupid and inefficient.) They are moving Covid positive patients into ICU more often than not to isolate. And they stated that they ALL have plans to convert other beds to ICU in the event of a real issue... but the media scares people with 'ICU at 85.6% and rising...' well, on a normal day in July of any year they are probably at 85%, because that's what they do. They operate with high utilization. It's more profitable that way.
One other item... those "overflow morgues" are due to funeral homes operating at 1/3 capacity, people wanting to wait until "no cases" to have funerals, etc.
Covid deaths per day continue to decline. US daily covid deaths are now 1/2 of what they were in May. (FACT: May was average 1,411 deaths per day and the trailing 30 day average is 652). Cases are "up" because, well, more people are getting it AND testing is way up. (OP, you know this, but I'm just piggy backing on your comment)
But yes, you open up with fewer staff and people are ready to have "elective surgery."
Also, people don't even understand that term... ANY SURGERY that is not immediate... ANY SURGERY where you are told to come back... is "elective."
If you go to the ER and end up in surgery, it is not elective. But everything else is.
My daughter is a nurse who works in hospital administration. She said the same thing. Surgeries, procedures etc are keeping them full.
Orthopedic surgeries that have been delayed are one of the biggest contributors. Gall bladder, hysterectomys, plastics, ent, are all being done now and the surgery schedules are full.
My mom works at hospital in central Florida. They've got one Covid patient and the next hospital over had 20 last week, all nursing home patients (in other words, none of the social distancing or masking did anything to help these folks, as they're already in full time care).
Reporters that cared about the truth would. The problem is most reporters are activists/opinion writers/useful idiots. So long as the truth stands in the way of The Agenda ™, there's no chance of hearing it.
Isnt that what businesses are supposed to do maximize the use of their space, especially hospitals and doctors with appointments?
It would be kind of a shity buissnes model to keep an empty hospital.
I live in the mountains. Go away!😂
We have bears here. They like city folk. More fat. Kek
The Starbucks is 300+ miles that way 🖕....... best be moving along.....
We called this months ago. We knew that once we reopened the hospitals that were short staffed and are now taking on increased loads because other hospitals closed down permanently from the shut down that they would be hit hard with everyone coming in at once. This whole fucking hoax is playing out exactly like we knew it would.
I know a person through work that works at parkland memorial in Dallas, and she's basically been saying "no we're full now because we're trying to take care of all the people who had surgeries delayed on top of an increase in covid patients".
She even talked about how the patients coming in were younger, needing respirators less (mostly just enriched oxygen) and needing less hospitalization time too, so they're churning out people from the covid ward faster. Also talked about how they're emptying out the hospital as fast as possible to send all the non-covid patients to other hospitals since parkland is the newest in the area and best equipped to handle the pandemic.
It's fucking insane how they don't even bother to talk to people who work in the hospitals for 5 minutes..
The Houston hospital CEOs stated: we ALWAYS operate ICU and all bets at a high occupancy (because having normal 25% would be stupid and inefficient.) They are moving Covid positive patients into ICU more often than not to isolate. And they stated that they ALL have plans to convert other beds to ICU in the event of a real issue... but the media scares people with 'ICU at 85.6% and rising...' well, on a normal day in July of any year they are probably at 85%, because that's what they do. They operate with high utilization. It's more profitable that way.
Not in Dallas, but I had some minor surgery a couple of weeks ago.
Recovery's going great in part to all the HIGH ENERGY around here keeping my spirits up.
One other item... those "overflow morgues" are due to funeral homes operating at 1/3 capacity, people wanting to wait until "no cases" to have funerals, etc.
Covid deaths per day continue to decline. US daily covid deaths are now 1/2 of what they were in May. (FACT: May was average 1,411 deaths per day and the trailing 30 day average is 652). Cases are "up" because, well, more people are getting it AND testing is way up. (OP, you know this, but I'm just piggy backing on your comment)
But yes, you open up with fewer staff and people are ready to have "elective surgery."
Also, people don't even understand that term... ANY SURGERY that is not immediate... ANY SURGERY where you are told to come back... is "elective."
If you go to the ER and end up in surgery, it is not elective. But everything else is.
ICU units are NOT full.
Fake news.
My daughter is a nurse who works in hospital administration. She said the same thing. Surgeries, procedures etc are keeping them full.
Orthopedic surgeries that have been delayed are one of the biggest contributors. Gall bladder, hysterectomys, plastics, ent, are all being done now and the surgery schedules are full.
My coworker's wife works at a hospital and she said they had two covid cases last week. Two in the whole hospital.
My mom works at hospital in central Florida. They've got one Covid patient and the next hospital over had 20 last week, all nursing home patients (in other words, none of the social distancing or masking did anything to help these folks, as they're already in full time care).
You go in without Covid...
Reporters that cared about the truth would. The problem is most reporters are activists/opinion writers/useful idiots. So long as the truth stands in the way of The Agenda ™, there's no chance of hearing it.