re: There have been 830 total Omicron cases in the United States

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doubt there's been that few. They're not testing for what variant it is when you get tested. There's certainly been way more.

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Who gives AF? Why are we tracking the sniffles?

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There have been 830 total Omicron cases in the United State

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I don’t support shutting anything, but it’s way to soon to dismiss the concerns. The hospitals where I have privileges at are already 95% full. They started getting ready to put up tents again. The surge is coming, but even if it doesn’t there is no harm in being prepared. Again I don’t support lockdowns, shutting stuff down, vaccine mandates for nonhealthcare workers, mask mandates, etc. However, I do support raising awareness and getting prepared. I wish our political leaders felt the same.

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They started getting ready to put up tents again. The surge is coming

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Why are you laughing at hospitals getting prepared for a potential surge?

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what if this is not a normal virus but was a manipulated one? Then what?

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Then it would depends on the particular mutations (if you think it’s natural) or manipulations (if you think it’s not natural). So far the research is showing the omicron mutations make it more contagious but less virulent (however that is limited research and subject to change). Unlike delta where the changes made it more contagious and more virulence.

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I don’t support shutting anything, but it’s way to soon to dismiss the concerns. The hospitals where I have privileges at are already 95% full.

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BS .... NYC had a Mercy ship 1,000 beds ......sent it home unused. Tent hospitals set up ...unused ....

Stop the hype BS and actually read what has happened. More important .... move out of a blue city ....don't bring the politics with you.

2000 people globally die every year from being struck by lightning

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Because the surges have all been so exaggerated beyond belief. There have been tent hospitals and ship hospitals and church hospitals and dome hospitals that were set up over the past 2 years and largely gone unused.

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I don't know about nationwide, but we used 2 out of the three tent wards set up during the delta surge back in the summer and used one tent for almost a year last year.

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Meanwhile there is actual floor space going unused in many hospitals at the same time. It has largely been a manpower shortage, not a bed shortage.

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Not the case at my hospital. During the delta surge we had a full hospital and still needed extra space. We also had a manpower shortage which kept us from being able to utilize the third tent ward fully and eventually made us close it early. However, manpower issues did not affect the number of patients in physical hospital rooms.

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The times of the “surges” have been some of the very slowest times for many health care providers, with few patients and little to do, because of the overreaction and shutting down of health care. The shut downs have harmed patients and harmed the resilience of the health care system.

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1. Just because OLOL had problems does not mean it is a nationwide problem.

2. Next weekend is Christmas and that is going to cause an increase in cases of covid as well as the flu and common colds all of which can cause people with chronic conditions like CHF, ESRD, uncontrolled diabetes, etc to get sick and need hospitalization. So we are predicting a surge in admissions for a variety of health conditions after Christmas. It turns out that it is suppose to rain or snow every day here the week after Christmas. Not the best conditions to be putting up tents and moving very expensive and specialized healthcare electronics in. However, this week is suppose to be relatively pretty weather. So we are going ahead and putting up the tents in case we need them while the weather is nice. That way we have the ventilators and other equipment as well as the extra bedspace ready if we need it. That way we can delay or avoid having to stop elective procedures and other stuff that we have had to do in the past. If we do not need them, then the only thing we lost was parking space. That is called being proactive and increasing the resiliency of our healthcare system.

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Can someone find out where all those deaths are happening at and send our current swamp creatures there to "investigate it" and hang around with all these people just to report back to us. Something like return back to the full session of House of Reps and senators and lock the doors until they figure it out or...., you know the thing.