Posted on 03/25/2020 5:18:53 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions at Elmhurst Hospital Center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiancé. All had tested positive for the coronavirus and had gone into cardiac arrest. All eventually died.
Elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in Queens, has begun transferring patients not suffering from coronavirus to other facilities as it moves toward becoming one dedicated entirely to the outbreak. Doctors and nurses have struggled to make do with a few dozen ventilators. Calls over a loudspeaker of “Team 700,” the code for when a patient is on the verge of death, come several times a shift. Some have died inside the emergency room while waiting for a bed.
A refrigerated truck has been stationed outside to hold the bodies of the dead. Over the past 24 hours, New York City’s public hospital system said in a statement, 13 people at Elmhurst had died.
“It’s apocalyptic,” said Dr. Bray, 27, a general medicine resident at the hospital.
With ventilators in short supply, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the city’s largest systems, has begun using one machine to help multiple patients at a time, a virtually unheard-of move, a spokeswoman said.
In the neighborhood it serves, Elmhurst, more than two-thirds of residents were born outside of the United States, the highest such rate in the city. It is a safety-net hospital, serving mainly low-income patients, including many who lack primary care doctors.
Patients came in faster than the hospital could add beds; earlier this week, 60 coronavirus patients had been admitted but were still in the emergency room. One man waited almost 60 hours for a bed last week, a doctor said.
The patients coming in now are sicker than before
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They died from not having a ventilator
and right near Flushing, which is teaming with Chinese...
And notice weeks later, we’ve still heard ZERO demographics about the victims, aside from an age here and there.
[Is this a Chinese neighborhood I wonder? Why aren’t we hearing anything about who these people were?]
It’s a real disaster for statistical research. I believe patients have to affirmatively sign a long document before their (anonymous) data can be released. I took one glimpse at the long list of bullet points and avoided signing the document when a loved one was in the hospital years ago. At the time, I was in no mood to deal with this stuff. I expect most people who might have authorized the release of this non-specific info on behalf of friends and relatives in ICU’s feel the same way.
Does not take a whole lot to push one over the edge.
Saw somewhere where Cuomo ordered you had to be in a “Study” to get those drugs
Think of it this way. Once you cannot swallow Plaquenil + Azithromycin (the latter ordinarily a horse pill) because of the ventilator or the need for same, you have to go to next-phase treatments ie RNA interruptors like IV Remdesivir.
chest compression’s on a woman in her 80’S.....
Wrong, illegals show up at the ER with a sniffle or more
azith. can be given IV and they could put a feeding tube down or place a peg tube for the plaquenil although I don’t know if it can be crushed and still remain effective...
there are several ways to administer medicine other than by pills...
Do you support Pelosi’s bill too? Why shouldn’t people be skeptical of the press/govt?
And assume any death that MIGHT be attributed, will be.
Queens is saturated with Chinese immigrants. Almost 250,000 Chinese immigrants live in Queens. Yes, the bulk of the patients are Chinese. It ain’t Archie Bunker’s neighborhood anymore.
You can look at block by block census data on the city-data.com website.
I’m sorry, but 13 deaths in 24 hrs in a city of 8 million is not apocalyptic...
That’s what I’m wondering. If they’d died after a few days of treatment with Hydroxychloroquine, I’m sure the media would have jumped on it. So I’ll go on the assumption for now that they did not receive treatment with these drugs.
Average life expectancy is meaningless without context.
For example, in a retirement home where the average age is 85, the life expectancy is at least 85 because they have ALREADY lived that long.
Can’t do Hydroxychloroquine via IV?
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