Posted on 07/23/2020 1:34:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Florida reported more than 21 percent in hospital bed availability statewide as of Thursday morning, despite the month-long surge in cases of the Chinese coronavirus, which has ushered the Sunshine State to the forefront of the national conversation.
Florida’s Department of Health added 10,249 confirmed cases of the virus on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases, among residents and non-residents, to 389,868. The state has added more than 189,000 cases since July 5. Yet, hospital capacity statewide is remaining relatively steady, despite the dramatic surge in cases.
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MSM and the dems are full of crap once again.
Curve. Flattened.
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21% sounds like a safe level of reserve. But it all depends on how they are distributed geographically.
For instance, if ALL the unused beds are in the peninsula, then they could be in panic mode in the other end of the state.
Without anything other than my pure speculation, I surmise that with 10% of beds unused a state is probably O.K. However, if a state reports less that 10% available, then they may have some severe regional shortages in some areas.
Florida has 62,000 hospital beds.
Currently, there are just over 9,000 of those beds occupied with corona virus patients.
For the last two weeks the number of new hospitalizations by covid patients has averaged just over 400 patients per day.
Patients discharged from the hospitals due to death (about 100 per day) or cure (also about 100 per day) for the past two weeks.
Net admissions to hospitals is about 200 per day and keep in mind there are over 60,000 hospital beds.
All seems well under control and well managed, contrary to what the media purports.
Rather than speculate, check out this site.
Unlike many other states Florida publishes an amazing amount of detail about covid. One principal reason is Gov Ron DeSantis’ excellent management skills. If only the other 49 governors were as good in doing their jobs.
The media loves 2 stats. Cases (testing + which might be meaningless if you have no symptoms because the test caught a bit of rna from some other coronavirus) and deaths (which are often just someone dying of another cause but testing +). The two important stats are hospitalization from coronavirus and recovery. Look at those two and no one would be shut down.
Wait. Aren’t cases and deaths the same thing?
Empty hospital beds are expensive. There was an article a couple weeks ago where an FL hospital chain spokesperson effectively said they had deactivated beds (and likely layed off staff) to save money back in March, when hospitals were empty due to suspension of non-critical care. With more COVID-19 patients, they have been activating these beds as required to meet demand. I have no doubt this practice is pretty typical in the healthcare industry. There is capacity, and more can be added.
That’s not to say it’s not getting bad in FL, nor that it won’t get worse. How much worse depends on Desantis and Floridians. But they are not going to be NY or NJ. Not unless they start dumping patients into their Senior Care facilities.
Oh, here’s the article mentioned above:
I heard over the weekend from someone who is involved in this tracking, ONE Miami-Dade County hospital was entering surge mode due to their ICU getting full. That’s ONE hospital in Miami-Dade County...a county of over three million people so there are many other hospitals to handle surge overload. Hospitals generally do not operate day-to-day with empty beds...the hospitals do not make money that way. There is a definite sweet spot in terms of being full enough to be profitable but not being overrun, and the hospitals are not there.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. We are being had.
Here are the FL ICU numbers: 6195 ICU beds available statewide in Florida...5212 currently filled...983 available (15.87%).
In Florida there are many positive tests right now, but hospitals are not overloaded and fatalities are trending down, as a matter of fact on the State Dept of Health website there were only 20 on 7/20 and less than 100 from July 13 on. Florida has 21 million people in 67 counties...not belittling the deaths at all, it is sad, but we have to keep it in perspective. There have been less than 5,518 deaths in Florida from COVID. Using 120 days (four months, starting mid-March) that’s 46 per day from COVID...that’s less than one death per day per county from COVID since mid-March.
WOW! this is bad, people must be dying in the streets everywhere, every other house must have a black flag hanging to signify they have the plague, WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
I propose we Prot6ect Our Elected Officials!!
All Elected Officials in Californis shall be Immediately Quarantined in Isolation for a period of not less than 990 days and no more then 10000 days, without PAY, Visitors or any contact with another human being except their keeper. TO SAVE THEIR LIVES!!!
The fact the CDC case count rules are reckless .
Reporting positive antibody counts with active cases and actual sick actives cases makes it false count.
Europe does not use these skewed counts .
The positive case count is fraud .
The leftist media is reporting benign old positive results with positive healthy cases and sick positive cases thanks to the CDC .
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