'The threat is real': Miami hospital flooded with critical COVID patients
Source: ABC News
Krystal Spaulding is almost out of breath as she sprints from one critically ill patient to another at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Coronavirus cases are increasing at an alarming rate and the hospital is seeing more and more patients every day, the nurse said.
"There's just a lot of running around with this current wave of [COVID-19] that we're experiencing here in Miami," Spaulding told ABC News. "The patients seem to be way more critical than the first wave."
Florida reported over 10,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the biggest one-day increase in the state since the pandemic started.
As the state continues to shatter records for coronavirus cases amid the reopening of the economy, hospitals in Florida -- like Jackson Memorial -- are seeing a rise in hospitalizations. And as a safety net hospital, it is seeing more minority populations being infected with COVID.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-threat-is-real-miami-hospital-flooded-with-critical-covid-patients/ar-BB16jhxh?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP
Meanwhile mike Pence says thank God for Donald Trump
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142529058
napi21
(45,806 posts)I don't know what happens when there's no more beds available for virus patients? It's looking more like that in quite a few places and cases aren't slowing down.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)that barely got used but was ready to turn into a hospital. They also opened up old hospitals when things were busy. We might need it in a few weeks or a few months. Either way there is a plan here and the governor of Texas could have had a plan. Well the president of the united states coulda had a fricking plan.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Thankfully it hasn't come to that. Though yesterday my brother said that his ICUs were both at 95% capacity and were moving to double occupancy. Fuck.
Help those who have the best chance to live. The others die.
what my Arizona son said they are doing.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)This was a year or two ago before COVID, but essentially the ER was full of patients waiting to be admitted to the residential floors, and there was a backup processing discharges and cleaning rooms for new patients. My mom luckily didn't get put in the hallway, but she got there at 3 and had to wait until about 11pm before finally being moved to a room. They had to bring her dinner in the ER.
progree
(10,864 posts)Is she saying the strains of Covid-19 we're experiencing now are worse (more severe symptoms on average) than in the first wave? (which nationally and in Florida peaked in early April)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
On the Daily New Cases graph, click the "7 day average" box just below the graph ...
The current U.S. 7 day average is about 45% more than what it was at its April peak.
The current Florida 7 day average is almost 7 TIMES what it was at its April peak!
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Could be because people wait too long before going to the hospital (for obvious reasons, hospitals are full, and you probably need to be near death to be admitted).
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)That's 20% of the record-high national total.
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)Wasn't ANYBODY in Florida or Texas paying attention?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)As well as many others, but not the Trump cultists and the followers of the Church of Fox News.
Marthe48
(16,696 posts)and reality is a nightmare