Beaumont nearing capacity, supplies running low
As I'm sure many of you have heard, Beaumont Hospitals are nearing capacity. As of last night they had admitted 635 known or suspected COVID patients.
All of the local hospitals are now asking for donations of PPE. So help out if you can.
Also, there's this...
"During a conference call Monday night, state officials said no COVID-19 patient who has needed a ventilator has been removed from the ventilator -- they have either died or are still on it."
Stay safe out there everyone. And by out there I mean in your house.
This is the whole logic behind having a national stockpile at the federal level and a federal government that had the authority had it so chosen to use it to increase that stockpile. There is certainly bipartisan blame that this wasn’t done. But one particular politician was fighting to decrease budgets for CDC etc. so other politicians had to fight just to keep the status wuo.
Hospitals have to rotate out most equipment thats out of date,unsanitary ,or just to bring in better products .The old items are usually destroyed for safety reasons,so there arent a ton of extra "hospital beds" or older supplies to be found .
The surplus issue only became an issue because Dr. Fauci's screaming into the void about lockdowns wasn't - and still isn't - being paid attention to.
A bit of positive news: Italy's growth in new cases today is 7.5%, its lowest to date if I'm not mistaken. Their curve really appears to be flattening. It shows that this takes awhile though - they went to countrywide lockdown on March 10.
Encouraging news indeed. Lockdown to peak number of new cases daily about 12 days in both China and Italy (so far - hope the trend continues!!).
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March 25th, 2020 at 10:29 PM ^
Yes, lockdowns work. Especially if applied early and broadly. About an incubation period to get an effect. But there’s going to be a lot of extra deaths because politicians were more worried about the travel, hotel, and tourist industries than public health. Since a lot of deaths are now already programmed in, may get over 1000 daily deaths in the next week. But it could have been worse... and could be if the country reopens too quickly.
From my buddy working at a hospital in Brooklyn:
”they’re selectively not doing cpr on full code elderly patients in the ED cuz of high risk of spreading during cpr and not enough vents, 5 died last night in the ED alone. 5 of the 8 medicine teams are dedicated to only covid patients and the hospital is being required to expand its capacity by 50% by building tents and opening up vacant units. shit show everyday.”
I'm hearing similar things here in Michigan and the big wave hasn't fully hit yet. NYC, I can't imagine what that's like right now.
Aside from the elderly and people with health conditions not directly related to their shitty, unhealthy lifestyles, maybe so many people wouldn't be getting so sick if they kept themselves in shape and ate better. Harsh truth.
All this talk about how unprepared "the system" is, rightfully so, but many people could've been better prepared had they taken a little care of themselves.
This would be more relevant if we weren't seeing the same exact story play out in every country that has an outbreak of this virus.
People have become extremely unhealthy and sedentary. Not just Americans.
Americans are generally out of shape and lazy. Smoking is still extremely prevalent in China. Not surprising how dangerous a virus that causes respiratory issues can be.
That may well be true, but it's a red herring in this discussion.
You aren't wrong.
March 25th, 2020 at 10:41 PM ^
Should people take better care of themselves? Absolutely. Should people wash their hands and not touch their face? Of course. You can turn on the retrospectoscope at any time in life and second guess things. But your point is irrelevant to this discussion. The people dying are not those who would have died anyway or just the sick. The “harsh truth” is that the older we get the more cardiovascular issues we develop. So instead of judging and blaming the victims of the disease, maybe not be a shitty human and show just an ounce of sympathy to your fellow man.
the fecal matter in this thread is deep
nothing more telling than one asshole demeaning another asshole because asshole #1 is blindly following a political believe that is the opposite of the political belief that asshole #2 is following.
Its sad AF when people can't leave their political loyalty at the door in a time of national crisis.
When is a complaint about poor response a political belief and when is it objective analysis? Do you decide that? The idea that one’s political membership is the reason for criticism are adding to the problem. I live in a state with Republican governor who is acting on the science and the facts from hospitals. His outrage aligns with mine; his criticisms align with mine. I didn’t vote for him though he’s done some good stuff here. Yet, he still owns too much land and property through his brother’s real estate business—which doesn’t keep,from,acknowledging the good governance coming from him. You threw out as much anger and assholes as anyone on here.
There comes a time when yelling and scoffing at lies is not being an asshole, it is just the damn truth.
Supply chain for the PPE flooding into the Hospitals is priority number one.
Italy experienced high levels of infections in doctors, nurses and general hospital staff. At one point estimates ran upwards of 50% of ambulances were contaminated. EMT infections became common.
With a neice and nephew working frontline trauma, both are detailing the re-using of dirty PPE daily.
Both have been sent home twice for 48 hr waits on testing results, after either elevated temperature readings/ scratchy throat at shift start.
This stuff hits home, here's to trying not to win the political aspects. Keyboard warriors need to stay on Twitter until their thumbs blister up.
If you need to feel victorious in your convictions, go win elsewhere.
My wife is an NICU nurse at St Johns (Detroit) and the Residents (higher up doctors in laymans terms) are asking employees to donate or bring in such items as wipes,hand sanitizers etc and they have asked the public to help out .
People need to stop trying to politicize this issue. Ford is making 90K PPE gowns per day, Elon Musk purchased 1255 vents and 500K N95 masks. There are freight planes flying out of willow run airport to Aberdeen, South Dakota to pick up enough N95 masks to fill up 17 x 727 jets. Vents are also being manufactured by GE, Ford and Phillips. as well. America is stepping it up - that’s important.
An unabashed politician at the top is making decisions... with nothing but political interests informing those decisions. *That’s* why it’s politicized.
Do you think Easter really means something to him? Or is he just, once again, playing up to that evangelical constituency?
Here’s a truly disgusting realpolitik thought: what if NY isn’t getting as many ventilators it needs from the stockpile because it’s not a swing state? “Whatami gonna do, lose NY?”
What if he’s saving them for Florida? Or Michigan?
This all (and much more) should have started two months ago. Period.
Actually, had the pandemic unit of the NSC not been disbanded two years ago, we very likely would have. But here we are instead. They're "coming soon", while hospitals are filling up and asking the public to bring in goddamn home made masks.
WTF, man. How do people think this way?
Probably not. When has the government responded rapidly and effectively to a large scale crisis without initial terrible missteps?
All local hospitals are running low on supplies. At my SE MI hospital, we (physicians) have all been issued one N95 per person. General masks are like cigs in prison. Vents are on short supply. Gloves are fine - unlike the rumor another hospital is having providers wash gloves between patients. It's an overall disaster.
I had 160 or so 3M masks from old dead inventory. Kept 20 for the family, split the rest up between Beaumont South Shore in Trenton and the fire department/ EMTs
They’ve turned the cardiac unit in a toledo hospital into a covid 19 center. So far as of my daughters 12 hr shift that ended this morning @7,, no customers! That’s a good thing.
Very interesting thought bubble here on mgoblog