US coronavirus: Hospitalization rates are down across the US, but these 8 states still have fewer than 15% of ICU beds available

[AzogtheDefiler]

Your infection & hospitalization rates are low right now. In the Deep South and Intermountain West where vax percentages are low and mitigation standards are non existent, it’s an entirely different story. And not just rural hospitals.

I have a Boise friend who got real sick about three weeks and had to be coptered to a hospital in eastern Oregon. The hospitals in metro area (St Al’s & St Luke’s) are huge and they serve a total population of around 750,000.

Thankfully he was was able to get the antibody cocktail, recovered fairly quickly and was released last week. Nope, this not media frenzy or a myth.

Many Hospitals With No Beds Left Are Forced To Send COVID Patients To Cities Far Away

Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them hundreds of miles away for treatment.

www.npr.org

So we are just better up here. OK.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

I am actually outside..on the deck..nice day today. Beaches are in short supply..in Twin Falls Idaho~

Move!

 

[DrLove]

So we are just better up here. OK.

Thanks for conceding my point!

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Move!

Naw..I like it here..just fine~

 

[marvin martian]

You think Idaho has a large black population? Really??

I said primarily, and you people are not good at reading and understanding data.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

I said primarily, and you people are not good at reading and understanding data.

Well..I understand yer fulla shit, right?
That's all I really need to know~

If you had a clue you'd just look at the ten least vaccinated states--and compare it with the ten highest infection rates by state over the past 6 months.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Thanks for conceding my point!

If your point is that MA is superior to where you are. Great point. We do have the best schools and hospitals in the world.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Naw..I like it here..just fine~

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It is a duck. We have a ton of them here too.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

It is a duck. We have a ton of them here too.

Philistine..it's 2 ducks~ Cute couple too.

Point is..that's Rock Creek..and it's 70 yards from where I'm sitting.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

If your point is that MA is superior to where you are. Great point. We do have the best schools and hospitals in the world.

Are you extolling the virtues of your Nanny state? How droll~

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Philistine..it's 2 ducks~ Cute couple too.

Point is..that's Rock Creek..and it's 70 yards from where I'm sitting.

OK

Enjoy

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Are you extolling the virtues of your Nanny state? How droll~

I need something. Politics suck. Sports teams rule.

 

[Dana7360]

I remember those first cases at the nursing home. That place got hit by a ton of bricks.

Yup. It was in a nursing home in Kirkland.

We were predicted to become the wuhan province of America.

Thanks to the work of our governor and the people of our state that didn't happen.

I just hope this virus can be beaten so the suffering and death stops.

 

[Dana7360]

I am actually outside..on the deck..nice day today. Beaches are in short supply..in Twin Falls Idaho~

I've been to your town several times.

I love Shoshone Falls.

 

[DrLove]

You think Idaho has a large black population? Really??

Marvin is an idiot - The ONE dude I got on ignore

 

[Dekster]

I agree..from what I've heard. Here's the rub....say pre-covid, an ICU is running at about 90% with the usual patients-heart attacks, strokes, auto accidents, etc.
Now, enter Covid--Now the ICU is 95% full--with two-thirds or more Covid patients--so where do the usual litany of Heart attack victims, auto accident patients, etc. go for their emergent medical care? Who is getting turned away? Who is having to drive an extra hundred miles to get care...and how many are dying along the way?
The Covid patients are in addition to the usual demand for emergent services.

I assume step down units. I don't know what life is like for them since covid, but at my hospital of choice in the city down the road if I ever have a choice has at least 3 ICU's that I know of. One for cardio patients, one for neurology, and one for just general surgery/sickness patients. They also have a step down unit which is kind of JV ICU.