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As Covid hospitalizations soar, states struggle to find enough beds and staff
nbcnews ^ | November 11, 2020 | Corky Siemaszko

Posted on 11/11/2020 12:12:06 PM PST by be-baw

In El Paso, Texas, a convention center has been turned into a Covid-19 field hospital and refrigerated trailers have been trucked in to store the dead because there’s no more room in the morgues.

In Massachusetts, Michigan and several other states, hospitals are struggling to find enough beds for the influx of coronavirus patients and canceling elective surgeries so doctors and nurses can concentrate on Covid-19 cases.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks in Bismarck on March 20, 20 In North Dakota, Gov. Doug Burgum has given health care workers who tested positive -- but aren’t displaying any symptoms -- the green light to keep treating Covid-19 patients because he’s running out of nurses and doctors.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; fakenews; fakevirus; hysteria; madeup; nooneissick
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1 posted on 11/11/2020 12:12:06 PM PST by be-baw
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Turning out to be quite the diversion from the election news coverage and calls...


2 posted on 11/11/2020 12:13:21 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: be-baw

This from NBC.
Anything from a reliable source?


3 posted on 11/11/2020 12:13:50 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: be-baw

MSM clearly losing the narrative again. Fear is in their hearts.


4 posted on 11/11/2020 12:13:59 PM PST by conservativepoet
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To: be-baw

Thanksgiving is close so...... COVID BOOGIEMAN IS ALIVE AND WELL. CANCEL YOUR PLANS NOW!!!


5 posted on 11/11/2020 12:15:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: be-baw

Why is Biden killing people?


6 posted on 11/11/2020 12:15:13 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: be-baw

No worries, Governors like Cuomo have been following the science and are 100% prepared for this I’m sure.


7 posted on 11/11/2020 12:15:43 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: be-baw

I’ll be interested to learn the baseline diagnosis used to hospitalize these patients.


8 posted on 11/11/2020 12:16:36 PM PST by G Larry (There is no merit in compromising with the Devil.)
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To: be-baw
If they lied about the election what makes me think they are telling the truth about COVID?

There are 136,000 people in the hospitals today because of COVID. I did the math. There are a little over 6,000 hospitals in the US. That amounts to about 22 people in each hospital.

Why do I feel as though they are ginning the fear up to fit a narrative? And who benefits from it?

9 posted on 11/11/2020 12:16:43 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Balding_Eagle

It’s El Paso and Juarez.

“Migrants.”


10 posted on 11/11/2020 12:20:51 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: be-baw

Is the a MASSIVE increase in deaths?????


11 posted on 11/11/2020 12:22:12 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: be-baw

How many have died from just Covid?


12 posted on 11/11/2020 12:23:55 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Balding_Eagle

They have experts on the ground dont ya know! refrigerator trucks for the mounting dead, REALLY? Real or deliberate they are trying desperately to keep us all off the voter fraud coup attempt


13 posted on 11/11/2020 12:26:53 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: be-baw
I just retired on Monday....we do have covid....we also have all other ailments...we have old people who nursing homes won't take...very obese, demented, etc....dirty little secret is that our health care system does not have the capacity to care for these people and their families won't take them back....

mostly it is very hard on staff to watch these demented patients, many who are incontinent, plus have covid patient that require extra protective gear....its not the number of beds, its the shortage of people to staff them and its the burnout.

14 posted on 11/11/2020 12:27:08 PM PST by cherry
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To: be-baw

Well, they just extended the “mask mandate” here until February 23rd. Which is perplexing, because previously they were using some easily manipulated data criteria (something about how many new “cases” and what percentage of tests are positive).


15 posted on 11/11/2020 12:27:10 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: be-baw

Baloney!


16 posted on 11/11/2020 12:28:24 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: Slyfox

Two of my close friends are nurse’s at Parkland Dallas you know where they took JFK. They are nearing capacity and it’s not just the flu bro. Covid affects a good percentage of the population in a negative and substantial way. Americans are fat, diabetic, hypertensive, and renal diseased more than 40% of ALL Americans of all ages have one of those morbidity issues. The hospital rate is the key metric to follow it shows how bad the epidemic is at any given point. With beds running low they are not admitting “mild” cases it’s truly sick people who are being treated. My friends see death every day and it’s not just 70+ there are a good number of 40s 50s n 60s as well.


17 posted on 11/11/2020 12:30:20 PM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici")
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To: be-baw

For me, CV19 is like the flu. It’s not on my mind unless I get it.

Well, except for seeing articles like this. BUt I don’t have TV and rarely listen to the radio so I don’t hear much about it.


18 posted on 11/11/2020 12:32:34 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: tennmountainman

“How many have died from just Covid?”

... and how is it known that it isn’t just the regular old yearly flu.. What is the criteria for hospitalization ?
How many have the (”regular old yearly flu) Vrs Covid?

Covid 19 ______ Regular ‘ol flu _______


19 posted on 11/11/2020 12:34:13 PM PST by SoundApproach2
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To: JD_UTDallas

40%? Too many people throw numbers out there. The CDC stopped updating Covid total test numbers Aug. 27 at 67 million. Conservative numbers are 105 million as of now. This represents a deathrate of .0228%. So your 40% reasoning really does not make sense. None of this does!


20 posted on 11/11/2020 12:35:00 PM PST by mazz44 (http://knowledgeofhealth.com/why-animals-age-they-produce-less-vitamin-c-same-for-humans/)
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