Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

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DCBaker

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"When Florida set its COVID-19 pandemic record for current hospitalizations in a report released Tuesday morning, it did so by blasting by 14,000 all the way past 15,000, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

HHS reported 15,169 inpatient beds in use for COVID-19, an increase of 1,192 from Monday’s report. And that statistical leap came from 231 hospitals, 20 fewer than were reporting to HHS the previous day. So the average number of COVID-19 patients per hospital shot from 55.7 to 65.7.

That represents 27.6% of the hospital patients in those 231 hospitals. Nationally, 10.1% of patients are hospitalized for COVID.

Intensive care units reported a congruent increase, of 225 patients to 3,060. That’s 47.2% of those hospitals’ ICU beds, compared to 21.3% across the United States."


Here's a graph to put it in perspective -

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Nubs70

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Not meant to be political and will remove if mods ask me to. Just posting to show the state of things in Arkansas 8 available ICU beds seems a bit low even tor a small state IMHO

Vaccines are shown to reduce hospitalizations but still allow for the contaction, incubation, and transmission of the virus.

My have success criteria been shifted.
 

Lilofan

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Not meant to be political and will remove if mods ask me to. Just posting to show the state of things in Arkansas 8 available ICU beds seems a bit low even tor a small state IMHO

Execs with a lot of responsibility should remember one name , Dr. Barbara Jean Morris (PhD) who was the college president of SUNY- Oneonta. Under her watch approx 700 of of her students tested positive for Covid. She accepted responsibility and she resigned from her position.
 

DisneyFan32

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This COVID back and forth and passive-aggressive politicking in the thread is going to be around and awful for YEARS. Whether or not I participate isn’t going to change that. I don’t mean it being around like the flu, I mean this madness. Gotta love it.
I mean the pandemic will continue for USA for YEARS too. NOOOO!! I hope the pandemic ends in USA as the pandemic will continue for rest of the global world until 2023.
 

Kman

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Those plans were announced before the delta wave really caught fire, so that means that the planning probably preceded the announcement by at least several weeks. Knowing the speed of government, kind of hard to pivot away from such a major undertaking in less than a month.

Really hoping that the US border reciprocates soon. My wife hasn't seen her family in over two years.
I really hope we shut it down again...there is no way the borders should be open at this point regardless of what precautions are taken. Obviously it sucks for families and people with loved ones on the other side but right now I think it is a pretty dangerous move. I think they should have pulled it back before it happened on Monday IMHO
 

Lilofan

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I really hope we shut it down again...there is no way the borders should be open at this point regardless of what precautions are taken. Obviously it sucks for families and people with loved ones on the other side but right now I think it is a pretty dangerous move. I think they should have pulled it back before it happened on Monday IMHO
You do understand shutting all borders includes denying travelers flying into the USA to enter?
 

Kman

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British Columbia has a better run government run health system as compared to Ontario which health care system falters , and BC numbers are better than Ontario, but nothing comes close to Florida.
I'm reasonably disappointed in our provincial government in Ontario. There is a LOT of pressure to bring in some form of vaccine passport but our conservative government is not budging so far. To be fair, I believe they still might. I thought it was incredibly dumb to not require our school staff and teachers NOT to be vaccinated nor kids 12+. My personal opinion is that this should be the case as well as for anyone working in health care or elder care. There should be absolutely no excuse for anyone not to have the vaccine other than legitimate medical reasons. I'm pretty concerned about the school year. We don't have kids in that age bracket but I feel for those who do. Poor management in my opinion.
 

Kman

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You do understand shutting all borders includes denying travelers flying into the USA to enter?
correct...until we get our vaccination rates to very high levels we should not allow travel. I realize it's kind of strong but frankly, the US is a disaster right now and I don't see that correcting any time soon, unfortunately. I really hope they do as I would love to travel there. We were very disappointed to cancel our November plans to visit Florida including WDW but we thought it was the most prudent thing we could do.
 
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