'Overwhelmed': Hospitals engulfed by rebounding virus

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: Politico

The coronavirus is engulfing big city hospitals in states including Utah, Wisconsin and Indiana that are running low on nurses and beds and are being forced to set up overflow facilities.

With new daily U.S. cases surpassing 62,000 on Thursday, the prospect of swamped intensive care units is prompting some governors who previously resisted public health orders to weigh new restrictions to ease pressure on their health care systems. From the early days of the pandemic, the availability of ICU beds — and hospitals' ability to treat people who need life-support equipment like ventilators to breathe — has been an important benchmark for whether local health systems can handle outbreaks.

“Our hospitals are getting overwhelmed,” Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said this week. “The dramatic increase in infections has put the integrity of our health care system at risk.“

The University of Utah Health System, one of the largest hospitals in the state, reported its ICU is 95 percent filled, and health systems in other parts of the country have been forced to relocate patients because of bed and staffing shortages.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/16/pandemic-states-virus-rebound-429753

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Trumpettes will have to wear ventilators soon since they chose not to wear masks.
Keep safe. Wear masks, maintain social distance and wash hands often.

[Ilsa]

1. Medium size city hospitals and rural hospitals

must have it really bad, with fewer resources to draw upon.

Curse trump & Kushner.

[yaesu]

2. in the North tents in -20 temps will not work, they will need buildings, probably use schools

as they close, again.

[NickB79]

3. National Guard has been deployed in Minnesota to staff nursing homes in rural areas

Staff are being depleted by infections, and there aren't any replacements to be had.

https://www.startribune.com/guard-called-in-to-contain-covid-outbreak-at-two-minnesota-nursing-homes/572728431/

[ffr]

4. Fake Noise! The impeached infected president said this would all miraculously go away someday.

And it's past someday, so either this is fake noise or he was once again wrong about something that affected people's lives and wellbeing.

[roamer65]

5. Late 1918 to early 1919.

Get ready for the redux.

[CrispyQ]

6. And yet, we will continue with the Con's herd immunity approach.

And a good segment of our ignorant population is OK with that if it means they can go to restaurants and bars and get their hair cut.

One of the guest doctors on one of the news shows last night pointed out something that needs to be repeated, that if you are in a car accident or suffer appendicitis, you might not be able to get medical care because the system is overwhelmed. The other night Rachel asked Kamala Harris if she was worried that if they win, the virus will be so out of control by Jan 20 it will be hard to get it contained. And of course, Harris said yes. We are so very fucked. The Con has found his reason/excuse to do continue to do absolutely nothing, while he struts around saying the virus isn't so bad, after getting platinum health care at our expense. I no words for how much I loathe this man.

This pandemic will accelerate the feudalism that the rich have been orchestrating since the New Deal. They really got their shit together after Nixon and now we're in the final act. On what side of the precipice will we fall?

[Happy Hoosier]

7. My local hospital...

is near capacity and the Republican governor continues to relax restrictions.

Moron.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Wear a mask now, or a wig later.

[ck4829]

9. Kick