LSUnurse and other AZ posters, some evidence of a crest in Arizona hospitalizations

Looks almost as if.....it runs through a society, peaks and levels off, then drops.

Kinda like how early on N.O. and to lesser extent BR get hit. Now other parts of the state worse off.

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Looks almost as if.....it runs through a society, peaks and levels off, then drops.

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That's a bingo:



Once it starts spreading in a community it has to run its course. New Zealand suppressed it, but will have to be vigilant for the next couple of years. Is it worth that?

if you use that site to toggle for "rates for 100,00 population" it is remarkable how maricopa county looks in comparison to other, smaller counties. we have the most total cases because 5 million people live in this county. but rates for 100,000 population is less than half of santa cruz county's totals. yuma county is pretty bad too. and of course navajo and apache counties on the reservation.

i know imperial county, CA is pretty hard hit right now and i doubt it has to do with kids going to bars (is there even anything to do in el centro?) i know the borders are "closed" but there is still a lot of cross-border traffic, mostly migrant workers and people with dual citizenship who live/work in both countries.

Is that 117 Covid hospitalizations in the entire state of Arizona?

Simple case of not testing enough. Need moar testing.

7/10 people reading this post will be dead in 14 weeks

Looks like the masks are working.

A couple of issues with the 7 day average spreadsheet:

1. The net disregards the 400+ per day average that is being discharged, and

2. Fails to take into account deaths.

So, in reality there are approx. 450+ per day being newly hospitalized.

Check the other tabs under the the Hospital Metrics tabs and you will see that ICU covid admits and patients on vents are rising. Also see the daily intubation tab, only 66 (iirc) for yesterday, but over 100 for most of the recent past.

Net number of hospitalizations is a worthless metric for trying to get a picture of what is actually happening. This is one of my biggest grips with LDH reporting.


ETA: Arizona by far has the most transparent reporting of any of the States websites and provides by far the most information.

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subtle "my hospital is going to be so rich" brag is subtle.

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Not at all


I don’t think you understand how much more it costs the hospitals to have so many COVID patients.

Whatever they get from the government in reimbursement isn’t covering all they had to actually spend when you look at things like:

Construction costs to turn rooms and entire units into negative pressure areas (my hospital did this)
Construction costs to make certain units COVID only so you can have separate “clean” and “dirty” areas (we did this...had to build temporary walls in many areas)
Additional hazard pay to staff on COVID units so they don’t up and quit their jobs
Massive increase in PPE and supplies needed for everyone (we all now have to wear masks and face shields walking into any patient care areas)
Costs of testing all the staff that are sick (they aren’t asking for your insurance cards so the hospital is footing the bill for staff testing).
COVID patients staying for months at a time in the ICU....that 37k they get only pays for only a couple days of ICU care
Costs of trying to find lots of extra staff through outside sources (Ex: travel nurse agencies).....those cost $$$ to the hospital

Those are just the ones I can think of...I’m sure posters that are more involved with hospital administration can enlighten us with other costs as well

It is almost like humans have lived with overcoming diseases for tens of thousands of years!