Across the country. Throughout the year there has been shifting demand for travel nurses and states relaxed their regulations on doctors from out of state practicing. As long as a few places were seeing demand that traveling staff could move around.
The state lease expired in September, just not staffed, due to lack of demand. But it remained in a stand by status. Whatever was removed could be returned, just like they did earlier in the year.
It's not just beds and staff that would be needed for such a facility but also higher skilled transportation crews and equipment. Moving people is not a decision made lightly as it brings additional risks and its not unusual for this work to reserved for more dedicated critical care teams who would already be busy moving patients between existing facilities.
Why wasn't it done in November? The Governor could have ordered it, just like in March....
Ordered what? The governor can't magically make staff appear. March was before the intense level of care was understood. These aren't people who just need a bed and oxygen away from others.
He ordered 11 Facilities to open, where did that staff come from?
Again, earlier in the year it was possible to bring in staff from other parts of the state and the country. Earlier in the year the false assumption is that there would be a big need just for beds, the realization that far more staffing recourses were required for each patient came later.
Then the State can get new ones, where did they get the stuff in March. They have the equipment for 11 facilities, transfer it, along with the staff.
Maybe the equipment is sitting in a gift shop.
You keep saying this over and over again as though it was all just locked away in a storage unit and not put to use somewhere. The equipment being used in hallways and gift shops came from somewhere.
I still haven't heard you - or anyone else - respond to my questions from earlier.
It's such a pity that an effort to save lives is perceived as impeding on their rights. But these people have been trained to think that the government is always out to get them, so any action on the part of Newsom is doomed to fail on these people simply because he does not have the right letter after his name.
You can't really blame Newsom for panicking. California ranks at the bottom with Washington state and Oregon for having the least number of hospital beds for their populations. California will be OK there are still a lot of rich people that still live there to keep CA afloat and besides that, the new Administration will bail them out for sure, big tech must be paid back.
