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re: Are the hospitals overwhelmed yet?
Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:33 pm to ManBearTiger
Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:33 pm to ManBearTiger
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My Aunt Karen writes every day from the frontline.
That's it! We need someone to start a General Karen twitter account. She's a military nurse on the front lines but also a concerned mom.
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 11:34 pm
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Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:35 pm to SportTiger1
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Why is your number so much different than everyone else's positive testing %? Which the majority of those tested are have symptoms.
Maybe I'm not getting what youre saying.
In this instance was only talking about a small cohort of patients. The 70%-80% I'm referencing here are patients who have already been admitted to the hospital with upper respiratory infections and negative flu labs and are thus classified as persons under investigation for having COVID-19. Given the constraints required to become a PUI, these folks are deeply unrepresentative of the broader population.
This was in response to a previous question about how do I know that most of our new patients are COVID positive given the testing lag.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:41 pm to DMAN1968
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Hmmm...We only test folks who have a temp and a cough and other comorbidities...in other words, we test people who are really good candidates for CV19. Our postive results fall in line with the averages seen almost everywhere else, around the 15-18% mark.
If your area is testing 70-80% positive? First, run like hell...second blow the bridges behind you.
That's not what I was saying. I was apparently unclear. Overall, the area's positive rate is probably in the 30-40% of those tested, which is super high. The 70-80% figure was just about the cohort of patients who are admitted with upper respiratory but also have negative flu labs.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 1:21 am
Posted on 4/3/20 at 11:45 pm to partyboy1930
Not even whelmed in JXN, MS.
Got any threes?
Got any threes?
Posted on 4/4/20 at 12:55 am to MississippiLSUfan
This board is just full of know-it-all doctors and smart asses....as well as arm-chair quarterbacks. None of you know shite.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 6:34 am to longwayfromLA
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Not necessarily trauma, but the other garden variety medical services hospitals used to do before COVID. There is plenty of that stuff to offload, give it a few days. They'll be full.
This. The negativity about the hospital ships is just nonsense. They have people tested at other hospitals to ensure they dont admit chini virus people onto the ship and turn it into a petri dish.
The friggin ship can be sailed into a war zone to handle casualties I would think they are capable. The issue about them not taking patients for 49 (literally that was the quoted number) of issues makes common sense. They probably will not take people who are giving birth (and can go to a 1000 other locations) or a sprained ankle.
The other argument is they are of no use because people are on lockdown so there are no car accidents etc. I guess that means no one is having heart attacks, falling down and cracking their skulls at home, and the violent crime victims just disappeared.
The press just looks more and more ignorant as this goes on and more and more middle of the road voters are moving to the good guys, let them keep it up.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 10:34 am to Tigahs24Seven
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Layoffs and furlows at hospitals Nationwide..
This is true, and is a sham.
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outside of that crap hole NYC... this is a sham.
It is not all a sham.
Hospitals operate at a count hair into where they want to be financially. A 3 week deviation in visits and panic ensues. HCA has closed 3 free standing ERs in our area (Houston). Docs are getting hours cut and straight paycuts. 10 days BEFORE the shite is supposed to hit the fan. If it doesn't, AWESOME.
The practice of emergency medicine is changing as well due to this shite. Tell you one thing Baws. If any of you are having chest pains that you feel is "the big one". You will be asked the screening questions about travel and a cough. frickING LIE!!!!! Cough or fevers? Nope! Right now if you are having a damned heart attack you will NOT be taken to a cath lab for definitive treatment, you will be given "clot busting" agents. Which is SO 2004... Why? because of fear of decontaminating a cath lab after a POSSIBLE COVID patient.
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