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Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:43 pm to gadknot
Ok. That sums it up.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:43 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
BASED AF
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:43 pm to gsvar2004
Hospitals know they can get fed money to cover shortfalls.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:45 pm to geauxjo
quote:Gosh, I wonder if these folks were inoculated?
My wife just finished 3 12-hour shifts on the OLOL Covid unit. She also worked in it last year during one of the first surges. She says this latest surge is no joke. Younger patients with worse symptoms than before. People dying daily. We are far from Covid fear mongers and I’m so ready for this to be done- but some serious issues are going on.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:47 pm to jimbeam
Hospitals today are not designed to run with 100 vacant beds. Its not financially feasible. At a normal time most facilities run at around 95% capacity. When there are 80 Covid patients as inpatients, the hospital is over capacity and out of beds. This does not mean the hospital is overwhelmed with Covid patients. It means when you add those 80 patients there is nowhere left to put them. The only option left is to figure out how to open beds up so patients that need immediate treatment(covid or other diagnosis) have somewhere to land. Elective procedures is your only option. You would be pissed if your family member was truly sick and there wasn't a room to put them in.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:48 pm to geauxjo
My source who works in admin at another hospital in Louisiana (Not OLOL) says that yes, covid admits are definitely up. But the patients needing hospitalization are the same type of patients who needed hospitalization during the last surge (obese, HTN, diabetes). He also said that the patients are requiring a shorter length of stay due to treatment options and are overall not as sick. Of course, there are outliers in each demographic (the young, healthy 30-40 year old needing hospitalization) but that those cases are definitely not the norm.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:49 pm to MonroeTigerstripes
We can see in the data deaths are not trending up in this surge like they did with others
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:55 pm to teke184
OLOL has 1 billion dollars in cash so they dgaf.
Also OR doesn’t turn a profit.
Also OR doesn’t turn a profit.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:55 pm to MonroeTigerstripes
As of Friday, 97% of those hospitalized at UAB with covid (not just icu) since July 1st were unvaccinated and 89% were with the delta variant
Posted on 7/26/21 at 12:57 pm to LSU Tigershark
quote:FaKeNeWs
As of Friday, 97% of those hospitalized at UAB with covid (not just icu) since July 1st were unvaccinated and 89% were with the delta variant
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:00 pm to teke184
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Considering word during 2020 was that OLOL was up shite creek financially due to cancelling so many surgeries, I think “suicide” is appropriate.
Ochsner is about to blow the doors off OLOL and they are too stupid to see it coming.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:01 pm to Rust Cohle
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Also OR doesn’t turn a profit.
You are wrong. OR turns about 80% of a hospitals profit
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:04 pm to LoneStar23
Wife's company currently has more people out with Covid today than at any other point during the pandemic. Its crazy and she is about to lose her mind.
1200 in the hospital today. Hopefully 87 is right and it tops out at 1500ish and reduces.
I think if it gets to 1800 we will absolutely see mandates and lockdowns (which won't do anything but will give the appearance of doing something.)
1200 in the hospital today. Hopefully 87 is right and it tops out at 1500ish and reduces.
I think if it gets to 1800 we will absolutely see mandates and lockdowns (which won't do anything but will give the appearance of doing something.)
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:05 pm to Rust Cohle
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OLOL has 1 billion dollars in cash so they dgaf.
Also OR doesn’t turn a profit.
If they aren't making any money off of the OR, they need to be in a different business.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:05 pm to dukke v
quote:July positive tests are 38,853 in LA through reporting of 7/26.
If all this is a hoax then why are so many people dying from it?????
Reported July deaths are 176.
That’s .45%. Deaths are less than half a percentage point of the positive tests.
It has never been lower.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:07 pm to lsupride87
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We can see in the data deaths are not trending up in this surge like they did with others
I'm hearing there are younger patients this time around? Is that just because a lot of the older patients are either dead or vaccinated?
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:07 pm to teke184
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Those surgeries bring in money.
The ER is a massive cash drain because everyone stiffs them and by doing this, they are basically having people show up in the ER, get admitted, run up a huge bill, and split.
So instead of having an elective surgery people are going to flock to the ER? What am I missing, people going to the ER are there because of an emergency, or they don’t have a doctor and don’t know where to go. They don’t go there because their elective surgery was cancelled.
This post was edited on 7/26/21 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:07 pm to LSU Tigershark
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As of Friday, 97% of those hospitalized at UAB with covid (not just icu) since July 1st were unvaccinated and 89% were with the delta variant
What I really want to know and wish they tracked was: out of the 97% how many of these patients are covid reinfections and how many are new.
I would love to know how good our natural immuinity is from already having COVID and surviving.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 1:08 pm to Eat Your Crow
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Is that just because a lot of the older patients are either dead or vaccinated?
This is almost certainly the case.
Older people have an extremely high vaccination rate. People under 30 have a crazy low one.
And the 20-29 age group was always the largest group in terms of infections. They just got hospitalized at a much lower rate than higher age groups.
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