Hospital Over Capacity in 'Unsustainable' Coronavirus Spike

usnews ^ | 10/16/2020 | AP

[ChicagoConservative27]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of Utah’s largest hospitals had no beds left Friday in its regular intensive-care unit as the governor declared the state's weekslong spike in coronavirus cases “unsustainable."

The University of Utah Health had to set up extra ICU beds staffed by doctors and nurses working overtime to care for its critical patients this week as the unit hit 104% capacity, said Chief Medical Officer Dr. Russell Vinik.

[ChicagoConservative27]

What is going on out there?

[wildcard_redneck]

“What is going on out there?”

Nothing but fearmongering and yet you post this crap.

[funfan]

I don’t believe it.

[SMARTY]

It’s getting closer to election day and the Liberals are planning their final and most dramatic hysterics...look for this whole sham to explode soon

[tatown]

You’d think the dimwits in here would have learned by now.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If true why hasn’t the Governor asked Trump to send in the Corps of Engineers?

In reality hospitals can gear-up additional ICU beds fairly quickly. It makes no economic sense most of the time.

[rktman]

Ship them to NY retirement homes. I hear the have some vacant slots now. Just cuomo doing his part.

[catnipman]

if these hospitals would actually treat people with treatments known to work and which are successfully used by nearly the entire rest of the world, it wouldn’t be such a crisis ... instead all they pretty much do is watch people die ...

[Mom MD]

And how many of those ICU patients are covid patients?

[lowbuck]

The article is full of weasel words. OK, maybe the “regular” ICU is full. . . of whom?? Folks in accidents, folks with major health problems or, OMG, someone suffering from CRAZY-19.

Folks, you (we) are being gaslighted. I suspect that come November 4th all of a sudden CRAZY-19 will begin to fade.

In my 67 years I never expected this kind of CRAZY but here it is.

[Mom MD]

Well why don’t you go over and volunteer your services and start healing people? I’m sure the hospitals would love to extend you privileges and are awaiting your expertise

[loucon]

The current numbers show 307 hospitalized with 102 in ICU for covid. According to the news story they are at 73% of the states capacity right now. The numbers don’t make sense.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Thank for the info. Instead i get yelled by others for posting stuff like this haha.

[Chickensoup]

there are non covid patients for the ICU too.

[ripnbang]

104% is only a slight surge...hospitals are set up to handle this with surge procedures.

[Born to Conserve]

They are probably defining anyone with the virus to be critical, whether they are or are not.

[BenLurkin]

They have had months to prepare.

[ripnbang]

And they can offload others to other hospitals. That’s what hospitals do on a daily basis.

[Oatka]

From Utah COVID-19 Statistics, as of 10-19-2020)
"Yesterday there were 1,097 new confirmed* cases, 0 recoveries, 3 deaths. The current 7-day rolling average of 1,222 new cases/day grew 17.4% from 14 days ago, while the average of 4 deaths/day declined 20% in Utah."

Note: You can replace "Utah" in the URL with your state to see the data.

[lastchance]

Not enough information to really tell.

How many beds does the unit usually have? How many more were added? How many of the new cases required hospitalizations? Of those requiring hospitalization how many had other health issues? Were those other health issues left untreated or undiagnosed because the priority given COVID case? What is the hospital policy regarding when COVID patients are admitted to ICU?