'We are in trouble': Kansas City hospital leaders to call for new mask mandates

[pstokely]

Source: KC Star

While COVID-19 hospitalizations in the metro haven’t reached their winter peaks, the current spike is placing additional pressure on the health care system because more people are hospitalized for non-COVID reasons now than in the winter. On Wednesday, Stites said the University of Kansas Health System was turning down transfer patients because its beds are full.

“We have a severe shortage of in-patient beds and that shortage is throughout our community,” Stites said.

He also raised the possibility of asking state officials to provide additional resources. Local officials in Springfield asked Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to fund an alternative care site to help treat the inflow of virus patients.

“We saw in Springfield, they tried to put a field hospital up — and maybe we could be getting close to that,” Stites said.

Hospital leaders, who cannot themselves issue mandates, will have to build support for the idea with elected leaders and public health officials in order to obtain a second mandate. Officials would almost certainly face intense blowback from some portion of their constituents against any new order, especially after going months without one.

Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article252958273.html#storylink=mainstage_lead

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what's really need are statewide mandates? Missouri has never had one

[SWBTATTReg]

1. And where is our esteemed governor, Parson? Missing in action, as usual. Or worse, following

the same old GOP blue prints, and letting them die by the thousands before they get off their a&&es and finally realize just how deadly this disease is, how rapidly it can spread.

[greenjar_01]

4. Ranting about George Soros

Missouri has elected an idiot to be in charge during an emergency.

Horrific.

[greymattermom]

2. KU Med is in Kansas.

Do they have to take patients from Missouri?

[pstokely]

3. it's just over the state line in KCK

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[Javaman]

5. delta is going to burn through the red states.

it's going to kill countless unvaccinated people.

all of which could have been prevented.

there will be many red voters that will not vote or will switch parties next election because the fucking right wing asshole politicians lied to them.

so much stupidity it's horrible.

if there is a better case, lately, of crimes against humanity, I can't think of one.

the current manifestation of the right wing should be burnt to the ground

but the repuke obstructionists will spin this and bank on the publics, (especially repuke voters) to have a short memory.

[Warpy]

6. Old folks generally got the message, so it's killing young adults now

in their prime working years, 20s through 40s. This is the pattern that made the 1918 flu so devastating.

They had an excuse, they knew it was flu but they didn't know it was a virus, those had only recently been discovered. There was no vaccine and the only way to prevent it was to mask up and avoid crowds, which is what San Francisco mandated. Philadelphia went the GOP/business friendly way and ended up with mass graves.

This is not as efficient a killer, probably because we've got oxygen delivery and that's all many people need to survive. However, they're finding that the recovery period is longer than they once thought it was, even for very mild disease. People need to understand how bad this is, even if it doesn't kill them.

I don't know how much blowback there will be against the lying far right. These people tend to favor personalities and put them up on pedestals and it takes a lot more than disease and disability to pull them down.