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steve2470

(37,456 posts)
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 03:46 PM Jul 2020

Miami-Dade county ICU bed utilization at 122% as of yesterday

https://www.miamidade.gov/information/library/2020-07-18-new-normal-dashboard.pdf


https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html

Florida's numbers are trending in an alarming direction, experts say. In Miami-Dade County, intensive care units are at about 127% capacity, with 398 beds for 507 patients, but the county has the ability to convert more than 1,200 beds, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration. In the past two weeks, Miami-Dade has seen a 40% increase in the number of coronavirus patients being hospitalized and a roughly 64% increase in the use of ventilators, according to county data.

Of the state's 9,351 hospitalizations, more than a third are in Miami-Dade and neighboring Broward counties, the AHCA said.

"It's really a crisis moment at (Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital)," Martha Baker, the president of a union representing health care professionals, told CNN affiliate WFOR. "We're just, I say dancing on the head of a pin, hoping we can keep dancing."


In the article, I don't know where they get the 127% number. I am using the official Miami-Dade info.
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Miami-Dade county ICU bed utilization at 122% as of yesterday (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2020 OP
Wow. And it seems only like last week that they were approaching the limits of ICU beds, and ... SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #1
Within reason, there is not a lot of difference between an ICU bed and a Hoyt Jul 2020 #2
This is what annoys me about finding accurate data Roland99 Jul 2020 #3

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
1. Wow. And it seems only like last week that they were approaching the limits of ICU beds, and ...
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 03:58 PM
Jul 2020

have already blown past this boundary in one week!!

Be safe all in FL, pls.!! Ignore your governor, who doesn't seem to care one whit about your health. I hope he comes down w/ the CV, and see just how crippling this deadly disease truly is, to the citizens of his own state. Pathetic.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. Within reason, there is not a lot of difference between an ICU bed and a
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 04:07 PM
Jul 2020

regular hospital bed. Qualified nurses can work in regular rooms, but it’s not ideal. Equipment, like ventilators, can be moved easily (assuming they are available close by). That’s why the hospitals are currently handling 507 patients who would normally be in their 398 designated ICU beds.

If it goes on too long, or too many patients are admitted requiring intensive care, then you have real problems. That could happen here, but it appears they are good for awhile.

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