Any hospital working patriots here?
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Are they actually "full" like the media is saying? Are they actually full in LA and Arkansas and everywhere else? I highly doubt it but I'm just wondering if there are any first hand experiences with anyone who is currently working in hospitals where covid is "out of control" again.
I went to the ER in Bardsville,KY a few weeks ago and there was literally one person there. I doubt they are full.
Yeah they are! I took my bf to the ER in bardsville and it was empty AF
Kentucky here too. Took son for stitches early July and not a single person in front of us. Waited a whole 5 min for doctor to come in. Nurses were hanging out chatting with us without a care in the world. We live in a small town but 🤷🏼♀️
You can see the information on sites like these; Memphis Hospitals - Covid
Houston Area Hospitals Note that the # of Covid patients daily average is only 6 people at present, down from 11 in June and 14 in May.
LIES
Not full, NEVER have been.
EXACTLY!!!!
Though I’m no longer in the hospital setting let me give you some context to keep in mind:
Hospitals say their “beds a full” or they “have no beds” if they have no available beds. They may have beds that are not staffed, or in a closed section.
Hospitals regularly go on “bypass” for ER or Critical Care beds during surges of flu or the summertime festivities of gangbangers. These periodic “no beds” typically last 12 hours or so, but sometimes several days if they’re really slammed or when they can’t move patients through.
How efficiently hospitals move patients through (called “throughput time”) is a measure more of bureaucracy than sick patients. Any of you or your family discharged from being an inpatient? You notice that your doc writes the discharge order at 9a and you’re lucky if they release you by 5pm. For those going back to nursing homes this takes longer.
A real journalist would be monitoring the following:
• How many total critical care/ICU beds are available in the city (or catch basin)?
• How many are fully staffed?
• How many potential beds could be converted to critical care during a surge in volume? (all hospitals plan for this and prepare to flex, not novel)
• How are ambulances and medical transport assisting with moving patients from high flow to lower flow areas?
And finally, a graph showing year over year hospital days of “full beds” — particularly during flu season.
Of course this type of reporting would leave people feeling confident in a well run medical system.
All I know is I had to go to the ER at the height of the "Covid pandemic " The ER
waiting room was absolutely empty...as in not one person was in there. The hallways were empty except for two security guards hanging out near the doors. With no wait I was taken to a draped triage room. Right away a nurse came in, followed by the admissions worker. Within a few more minutes a ultra sound tech came in . She did her thing and told me the Doctor would read it. about 20 minutes the results were read and I was told to go home. There was 1 other person in the triage area with me . Some drunk guy singing at the top of his lungs. It's been a sack of lies the whole time IMHO. I have a niece in law who is an RN at the area's biggest hospital, but I would never ask her. She has pictures of her masked face and vax card online. Ick.
I had a 5 day stay in my local hospital last Jan time, I asked a few nurses about it but they were all very nonchalant and gave a nothing answer. Whilst they were using masks, patients were not.
Ohhh I get to answer something!! This is right in my wheelhouse working for a top 5 healthcare system in the country in data/analytics.... We had a system wide C19 inpatient census of about 4000 patients in Jan 2021 with deaths around 500 and currently have ~500 C19 inpatients as of July 2021 and C19 deaths in single digits.
A rough extrapolation for the other large hospital systems by multiplying our numbers by 10 (accounting for smaller and larger systems all together) and there would be roughly 5000 patients nationwide currently in the hospital for C19 which is a small % of beds available as every major city has a hospital with roughly 1000 beds if not multiple.
The numbers to me never matched the narrative or hype portrayed in the media. All scare tactics.
My friend went to a hospital in England now that we are off the lockdown. The accident and emergency room was full over capacity.
After a year of not being allowed in, whilst they were empty, people are rushing in to get there ailments sorted.
Usually X amount of people would of been diagnosed with cancer, heart problems etc but that was put on hold for all this BS.
So many people don't know they have serious health issues but staying home because of a cold.
Alabama hospital here- we have stayed between 9-18 positive inpatients since mid February.
I didnt see one area hospital full even at the height. They always talked about icu beds and percentage increase or decrease of icu cases. It was always something omg we had a 50% increase in icu hospitalizations!!! Which equated to the icu case count going from 4 cases to 6 or something along those lines. Its all fear mongering.
Indiana here. Worked yesterday. Census was down. Most patients being swabbed for the virus are resulting negative.
Full? A few + here and there. Think the hurricanes wiped out most of our Covid. Literally!
Hi, a friend has been working in a hospital local to me (not in the USA) and she told me last week that they had 1 CV positive patient in a side room, but she was perfectly ok needing no help. and in fact got moved out a few days ago.