Hospital Over Capacity in 'Unsustainable' Coronavirus Spike

usnews ^ | 10/16/2020 | AP

[billyboy15]

This is ONE Hospital and State wide the Hospitals are at 73% capacity and that is NOT very high.

[datura]

It smells like Romney and “the Church”.

[fireman15]

Actually they were talking about the doctor's office down the dirt road from the Pizza Place in downtown Koosharem. The doctor went out for lunch and when he got back there were half a dozen kids coughing in the waiting room. It is pretty easy to see how the story got misconstrued in a bog place like Koosharem, Utah.

[cherry]

often hospital icu beds get filled up, its usually just a short time thing, and they “divert” to other hospitals....in a crunch, an Icu pt may be kept in the ER with one on one care.

[Buckeye McFrog]

And are all of those beds filled with COVID patients?

Article conveniently does not say, but I think not.

[StAnDeliver]

Not a complaint about the post, but the article itself is fearporn after checking the Utah bug dashboard:

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This is a preferred hospital of Mormon exalted and they often refuse to go to any other hospital. One might wonder if it has gotten around SLC and the Taberknuckle that this hospital has the Trump cocktail REGN-COV2 & remdesivir?

[hal ogen]

There are a lot of globalist/libs in SLC. Also, there is a financial incentive to diagnosis covid (approx $57K each for hospitals). The governor here is into lock downs and masks. The bum isn’t running for reelection. It is all a pathetic pig-in-a-poke. More fear-mongering.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Send NY Governor Cuomo in.

(AKA “Governor Doom”)

He will bring the number of infected live people down quickly.

[hal ogen]

I read where ICU units usually are at 85% “capacity” at any one time no matter when. This is merely more fear-mongering.

[George from New England]

“.look for this whole sham to explode soon”

Oh no !! Epsilon is about to hatch.

You haven’t heard ... the global warming is about to explode in our faces. They didn’t manipulate the over-nameing of storms for no reason this year.

We are six letters into the greek alphabet because they started naming storms that formed off the coast of Europe. Never before until this season. A one day storm named Alpha off the Portugal coast, used up that name.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Poke your head out and take a look of you want to know what is going on. Otherwise don’t past alarmist junk like this without some explanation too.

North of is going on out there. FreeRepublic has already fallen once for the leftist propaganda about hospital capacity. Let’s not have a second.

[JCL3]

Someone needs to drive by the crying hospital and verify with video. Houston did the same BS tales and finally got busted on video and by some facilities calling BS on the fearporn.

[tomkat]

And how many of those ICU patients are covid patients?

When Federal (ie your) $$$$ are up for grabs, they ALL are !

[cgbg]

Even if it were true, one phone call to a Denver hospital for help and the problem is solved....

[liberalh8ter]

I just visited Salt Lakes’ Regional and University hospitals websites. Nothing there to indicate what this article is attempting to say. They’re both “ready and open for business”. Our local news here tried to say the same about our ICU’s....husband did some fact checking....not true.

[fr_freak]

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

I'm a little younger, but I've been expecting this type of thing my whole life. I suppose growing up in California, on the front lines of all this increasing madness, gets you attuned to it. But to see the Orwellian nightmare actually unfolding in real time is an incredibly strange feeling.

[funfan]

In the article they do not say the ICU is inundated with Covid patients they just the cases have spiked since schools have reopened then they talk about they are worried about flu cases.

They are using a spike in cases which as you know doesn’t mean you are hospitalized or die most people do not even know they have it but if they get a test says the are infected with it.
I think they are trying to shut sown or scare people into voting by mail or not voting at all by this story.

[gas_dr]

Or maybe. Just maybe the treatments don’t work as well as you think they do. But I am sure your clinical expertise will shine through as you seem to know how to cure this.

[wildcard_redneck]

We live in an age of ‘doom porn’ and sadly so many Fearpers are addicted to it.

doom porn
Articles or videos online (prevalently in the blogosphere) that mainly talk about the collapse of either the financial world or the world in its entirety.

People can develop a fascination/addiction reading about this stuff (much like people who watch regular porn).

Just read an article over at to read about how the dollar is going to take a shit. I had to get my doom porn fix for the day.

[JennysCool]