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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:44 PM Jul 2020

'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
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'The threat is real': Miami hospital flooded with critical COVID patients (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
I just watched a CNN video of hospital in San Antonio where every bed they had was occupied. napi21 Jul 2020 #1
If you have a plan you can be very creative. In Chicago we had a convention center mucifer Jul 2020 #3
They had plans to turn the LACC into a hospital if needed. Initech Jul 2020 #4
Triage. marie999 Jul 2020 #7
That's Delphinus Jul 2020 #8
I have seen a busy ER set up beds in the hallway. forgotmylogin Jul 2020 #10
I wish there was more in the article about this statement progree Jul 2020 #2
Yes, she is saying current patients are more severely ill. LisaL Jul 2020 #9
10,000 is a staggering amount for a single state Lord Ludd Jul 2020 #5
This all happened in New York City in April FakeNoose Jul 2020 #6
I'm sure many healthcare workers did. Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #11
No longer a threat, it is reality Marthe48 Jul 2020 #12

napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. I just watched a CNN video of hospital in San Antonio where every bed they had was occupied.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 10:17 PM
Jul 2020

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)
3. If you have a plan you can be very creative. In Chicago we had a convention center
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 10:43 PM
Jul 2020

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)
4. They had plans to turn the LACC into a hospital if needed.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 10:45 PM
Jul 2020

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.

forgotmylogin

(7,496 posts)
10. I have seen a busy ER set up beds in the hallway.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:17 PM
Jul 2020

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)
2. I wish there was more in the article about this statement
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 10:26 PM
Jul 2020
"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."


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)
9. Yes, she is saying current patients are more severely ill.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:04 PM
Jul 2020

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).

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,848 posts)
11. I'm sure many healthcare workers did.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:20 PM
Jul 2020

As well as many others, but not the Trump cultists and the followers of the Church of Fox News.

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