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For These Southern California Hospitals, the Full-ICU Nightmare Never Ended
NBC-4 Los Angeles ^ | 30 September 2021 | Maggie More

Posted on 10/02/2021 12:47:50 AM PDT by blueplum

Ten hospitals around Southern California have had ICUs at or over capacity for 25 weeks or more. Three hospitals have had full ICUs for over a year.

During the earliest days of the pandemic, calls to "flatten the curve" flooded social media from all corners, as health officials and politicians asked everyone to stay home and avoid spreading COVID-19.

Those calls aimed to prevent more cases of the then-novel coronavirus, but beyond that, they aimed to keep hospital systems, healthcare workers and intensive care units from becoming overburdened with too many patients....

For some hospitals, ICUs began to slowly empty out in the spring and early summer, before the delta variant caused another spike in cases.

But for others, ICUs stayed full...

Here's a list of the 10 hospitals around Southern California that have spent an extended amount of time with full ICUs due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: california; ccpvirus; pandemic; socal
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not a complete list, but why it's just another pandemic groundhog day in SoCal for the past year
1 posted on 10/02/2021 12:47:50 AM PDT by blueplum
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Do ICUs generally have empty beds? Do hospitals in CA have enough money to have that additional space and staffing to have unused capacity just waiting for a surge? My gf, an ER nurse who has worked in five local hospitals, says the only time she has ever seen an ICU with empty beds was during extended heavy snow storms. At least in her hospitals, it is a question of who is most critical coming in, and who can be stabilized enough to get out of the ICU.


2 posted on 10/02/2021 12:57:15 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: blueplum

How much taxpayer money goes to hospitals that admit “suspected covid” patients?

Maybe if they leave them in the hospital long enough they will become real covid victims.


3 posted on 10/02/2021 1:07:31 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: blueplum

They have plenty of money.

If they have not built enough ICU capacity by now, that is negligence and malpractice.


4 posted on 10/02/2021 1:11:16 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: LambSlave

I don’t know what to say about that. Either there are really a lot of people who need ICU care - in which case we should invest in expanding ICU care - or it’s some kind of fraud. I’d be interested to see some statistics on what % of ICU patients can walk out the door if the hospitals didn’t insist on wheeling them out.


5 posted on 10/02/2021 1:12:32 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

ICU capacity is built around expected turnover of normal disease and trauma. Say 3-4 days to stabilize and move.

the pandemic messed that up because covid patients stay in ICU two, two and a half three weeks. which creates a bottleneck

So no matter how much capacity you have, if you can’t turn beds over, you’ve got a problem.

right now, my neck of SoCal is back to emergency surgeries only.


6 posted on 10/02/2021 1:34:34 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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Not mentioned in the article.

It's the pandemic of the vaccinated!

75-90% of the ICU patients are fully vaccinated!

7 posted on 10/02/2021 1:47:21 AM PDT by wannabegeek (And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. --John 8:32, it's about COVID, too.)
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To: blueplum

How many illegals took Americans’ beds ?


8 posted on 10/02/2021 1:55:09 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true. I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: blueplum

Scamdemic. Leftists push abortions for American women while importing third world kids en masse. Democrats have done a lot of damage in just 8 months and 11 days. I watched a video of a midterm ad showing the terrifying reality of Biden’s America, and you can check it out in crawler link top of page at Whatfinger News. The left’s goal is ‘Amerika’, a clone of communist China. We need more low IQ reliable leftist voters like we need mystery shots several times per year. Oops!


9 posted on 10/02/2021 2:02:14 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: LambSlave

If hospitals have had shortages of beds the last 18 months can someone explain all of the TikTok videos shot in hospitals with dancing nurses?


10 posted on 10/02/2021 2:03:07 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: monkeyshine

The people needing that help are ‘vaccinated’. A nurse said on video a few weeks ago that ‘delta variant’ is code for ‘vaccine injuries’. They are also the ‘super spreaders’ as the regular virus wasn’t cutting it. So many sheeple...I guess this will weed them out.


11 posted on 10/02/2021 2:04:57 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: blueplum

And just as with the ‘water shortage’ in California, if the illegal aliens weren’t there (10’s of millions of them) then it wouldn’t be a problem.


12 posted on 10/02/2021 2:06:16 AM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: wannabegeek

that’s not true, in fact the opposite. Not to mention SoCal gets a lot of ‘border visitors’

“in Orange County, Supervisor Katrina Foley said Monday that 90% of COVID-19 patients that have been hospitalized have been unvaccinated.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-09/covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-sharply-across-southern-california-as-surge-continues

“The average age for young unvaxxed or partially vaxxed patients is 51, younger than the average of fully vaxxed patients which is 66.”
https://omny.fm/shows/kcbsam-on-demand/hospital-admissions-are-on-the-rise-in-southern-ca

last month in San Diego:
“Three or four weeks ago, I was getting about one ECMO referral a week, and now I’m getting probably between two and eight a day,” she said. “These are physicians who are calling from all over Southern California who are looking for help and have already reached capacity...Of the six with COVID-19 who are currently on ECMO at UCSD, all are unvaccinated.”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-08-05/hospitalizations-continuing-to-rise-across-san-diego

LA times tracks ICU space:
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/hospitals/


13 posted on 10/02/2021 2:30:21 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: LambSlave

Empty beds, especially empty ICU beds, are money losers.


14 posted on 10/02/2021 2:34:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Not only dancing nurses, but videos of empty hospitals. The whole overwhelmed hospitals was a fraud.


15 posted on 10/02/2021 3:12:39 AM PDT by roving
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

They are heroes! Heroes dance!


16 posted on 10/02/2021 3:15:05 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: blueplum

The Big Lie!


17 posted on 10/02/2021 3:20:14 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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the pandemic messed that up because covid patients stay in ICU two, two and a half three weeks. which creates a bottleneck

First of all, it's a Scamdemic, not a Pandemic.

The continued use of the FAKE PCR Test confirms this. If your test cannot (and you know it) tell the difference between the common every-day flu and COVID-19 and you keep making statements about COVID-19 being the cause of something, You are a liar!
18 posted on 10/02/2021 3:23:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

if you’re in the ICU for covid, you’re not in there because of a positive pcr swab - you’re probably acting like a fish out of water, gasping for o2 and your body systems are going haywire

yes covid is the cause of ‘something’ - that something being 700K dead USA (460K on Biden’s watch), and 4 million dead worldwide.

If you have natural immunity, or are vaccinated, why are you scared of hospitalization numbers? Chances are you won’t be one.


19 posted on 10/02/2021 3:32:24 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

We really cannot trust media reports these days. Their talking points and themes are copied from each other, invariably parroting the leftist line of the day. Giving us multiple links doesn’t increase the confidence level in these reports.


20 posted on 10/02/2021 3:41:08 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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