[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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?

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Send NY Governor Cuomo in.

(AKA “Governor Doom”)

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

[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.