According to data from HHS at https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization, 19% of inpatient beds and 16% of ICU beds in FL are not currently being used. We may have a different definition of "filling up" but that doesn't fit my definition of it.
Exactly. Prior to Covid, we did more recreational traveling after age 65 than when we were younger. No planning time off, working around school schedules, having to pay x4 for flights, tickets, etc.why not? My 65+ parent is on vacation right now.... granted a non Disney one with one of my siblings, but they do travel ya know
This narrative has to stop also. We need to dispense with the myth that patients were never seen in hallways of ERs before COVID. I took my next door neighbor's daughter to the ER at Memorial West in Pembroke Pines circa 2012 and she was put on a gurney in a hallway, was seen and treated there and spent 12 hours there until she was released.
A booing audience in a state with one of the lowest rates of vaccinations, though, doesn't exactly make them look like a reasonable bunch of individuals.
AdventHealth obviously thinks there is an issue. Are the vaccinated people having care delayed not being impacted?
Hospitals typically filled up for short bursts in the winter. Not for several weeks over the summer.
No, full ERs are nothing new. The degree and frequency of this happening, though, has been unprecedented over the past year and a half, particularly for the summer months. Hmm, what changed in that time that wasn't a factor previously?
An open ICU bed means nothing if you don't have the nurses to staff it. And only 16% vaccancy seems really tight. In hospitals where I've worked, usually about 50% of the ICU beds were open at any given time. Only at Walter Reed during the height of the Iraq war were the med and surgical ICUs consistently full.
If we look at the UK spike you have to be encouraged.
You are incorrect. This is no narrative or myth. I have friends and family also that work as doctors and RNs. The hospitals are currently being overrun. I have seen it with my own eyes.
Mitigation measures were removed only last Monday. It’s too soon to know whether the decline will continue, which I hope it will, or reverse, which I fear is likelier.
I bet we would see close to that here if we kept testing at a high rate. But we aren’t testing vaccinated people as much anymore so won’t see the true case numbers. And that’s ok.
Liklier how? I'm looking at data in India and a few other places and don't see it. https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart...1&per100K=1&startDate=2020-09-01&values=cases
Because many unvaccinated people suddenly started mixing in crowded settings, with no masks, distancing, or testing whatsoever. Even the prime minister, who tried to sell the lifting of restrictions as a triumphal move, has urged people not to jump to conclusions about the figures (see the link I posted above).
If they can dream it, they can screw it.
Here’s what we know about the C.D.C.’s new mask recommendations for vaccinated people. (Published 2021)
The new guidance calls for masks in schools and indoors in areas with low rates of vaccination for everyone regardless of vaccination status.www.nytimes.com