Posted on 06/26/2020 10:29:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thank you for posting. A lot of people loosing there mind here. They forgot the President Trump got some extra time to prepare with the lock downs.
We are ready for any breakout... It Texas or any other state runs out of Bed, President Trump will send help.
We did not actually exceed hospital capacity in New York City at the very height of the worst of this.
What makes anyone think it is going to happen now?
If it was actually happening wouldn’t Debbie Birx be on TV raising the alarm with charts and graphs? Wouldn’t Trump be sending a hospital ship?
Hospitals seem to be admitting and then counting as COVID 19 patients admitted for other reasons. Follow the money. More COVID 19 more money. Gotta make money somehow to survive - but the stats sure look bad.
The only number that matters is deaths and Dan Patrick said it is still flat. All this seems to be much ado about something that is certain to happen. More tests = more cases.
Texas has a 7,200 ICU bed capacity.
Of those beds, 4,400 - or 61% - are filled w/NON-Covid patients
This, btw, is about average, for TX ICU occupancy.
18% (currently) are Covid
So, we are at 79% of ICU bed capacity, with and additional 2 - 3 K beds that can be turned into ICU beds, if needed.
This info is per Dan Patrick, who was on Varney & Co, this a.m.
Also....the surge, in Harris County hospitals (and other areas) is, imo, directly related to the Floyd protests.
(I posted, earlier, on another thread)
Texas Children’s PEDIATRIC Hospital is taking in overflow from these indigent hospitals.
....The safety net hospital system, which treats many of the roughly 1 million uninsured or underinsured residents in Harris County, was treating high volumes of patients prior to the recent spike in cases, said Harris Health President and CEO Dr. Esmaeil Porsa. Now, Harris Health is taking steps to ensure its hospitals can sustainably weather the surge in hospitalizations.
“Our ICUs are already overwhelmed, and that’s the reason why we are going through our next level of surge planning,” Porsa told the Houston Business Journal.
Harris Health has 94 ICU beds between Ben Taub and LBJ, and the hospital system is working to convert some of its 395 adult medical/surgical beds into ICU beds to handle the surge. But Harris Health needs additional ICU nurses to staff those beds, Porsa said. Harris Health has pulled employees from other non-acute areas to address shortages, but staffing is a concern, he said.
“If somehow, magically, there’s a group of 10 or 20 ICU nurses that I can have, then I can transform more of my beds into ICUs,” Porsa said.
Harris Health has also been transferring patients to other Houston-area hospitals to free up capacity. In a June 25 virtual news conference, Texas Children’s Hospital President and CEO Mark Wallace said that his hospital had taken transferred patients from Ben Taub and LBJ. Earlier this week, Harris Health transferred around 60 patients to larger hospital systems within 48 hours, Porsa said....
(HBJ link/subscription only.)
That is right the only number that counts is the death rate. Listening to Vice President Pence briefing now. The number of positive spike are the protesters under age 35. A lot of those folks are young and will not die.
The parents and grand parents they spread the virus to, we can treat, the USA is ready to take care of them.
Today in New Mexico the governor tightened the restrictions which were stricter than most places. They have/had mandatory mask wearing everywhere plus closed restaurants, shops, gyms, etc. they are far from reopening their state.However the cases of Covid have increased in spite of their strict regulations. It’s curious that the population being affected are the 30 so age group....Nah never mind the riots wouldn’t have anything to do with this outbreak....crazy me for thinking that.
Cases (or those who have had covid) rising is a good thing. It grows the denominator. The funny part is, no one seems to realize this, that those numbers moving up is not a bad thing. The more who have had it, the harder and harder it is for the virus to move through humanity. That is why we should’ve never closed schools. If we had not shut everything down, we would be out of this by now.
But little tin pot dictators are gonna dictate. It is just too bad many people buy into the hysteria. All they need to do is crack a textbook on the human immune system, and they would quickly find that EVERYTHING we have done, and continue to do, is incorrect.
More testing = more cases detected
More cases detected among the ‘young and restless’ = more herd immunity
More herd immunity = more chance the virus plays itself out
More chance the virus plays itself out = Less chance the elderly and those with underlying conditions who are staying home will get infected.
Also, mask-wearing/identity-hiding and anti-social distancing restrictions bog down the economic recovery and maintain the high level of fear, distrust, depression and anger among the population as when wearing their little mask, most people (people on the street; waiters; store workers; you-name-it) look like they belong in a sick ward. The Democrat/Left needs to keep these soul-crushing mandates going to the first Tuesday in November to have even an outside chance against Trump.
ZERO evidence that lockdowns/shutdowns slow transmission rates of the chinese virus or reduce hospitalizations.
lockdowns or ‘pauses’ are to give politicians cover that they are doing something to justify their existence and providing a foil to hurt their opponents (i.e. Trump)
What makes anyone think it is going to happen now? "
You don't have to overload the ICUs to have a bad outcome, it is just a symptom of the real problem, which is the spread of the virus. NY didn't overload, but 1 out of 500 people in in the city died of Covid in a 2 month period. That's not a "Yay" we didn't overload the hospitals number.
Please clarify. Did Pence come right out and say that these spikes are due to young protesters? That would be EPIC if he did. The media has worked triple-overtime to suppress such talk.
Kinda coincides with all of the protestors/Rioters who started roaming the streets, hand and hand, without masks back in late May and June, doesn’t it? I doubt it has spread from the few that were run out of their churches in the last month.
“””lockdowns or ‘pauses’ are to give politicians cover that they are doing something”””
you are not correct. Lockdowns provided time:
1. To produce PPE in sufficient quantities in the USA. Let us not forget that our Medical Supply Companies had outsourced almost all of their manufacturing to China and elsewhere.
2. For our doctors and hospitals to better understand the virus and develop treatments.
3. To implement practices in our nursing home facilities to stop the virus from getting in.
4. To develop mass testing capabilities to know who was infected.
These are the reasons the lockdowns were put in place.
Absolutely it is time to panic: All liberals in Austin need to flee back to New York and Boston where they will be safe!
Bars shut down for a while and 50% capacity at eating establishments. My friend is the head nurse at one of the larger hospitals north of Dallas and they have exactly 2 patients in their COVID ward. 30,000 test/day and the way they are counting COVID hospitalizations = liberal panic
“4. To develop mass testing capabilities to know who was infected.”
Why? What does testing do? Is it magical?
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