fishtm2001
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Deaths attributed to COVID-19 for the past week were listed as 4,965, a 52 percent hike from the prior week.
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fishtm2001
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. Dr. Don Williamson, president of the Alabama Hospital Association, told a local news outlet that as of Tuesday there were 1,568 ICU patients, but only 1,557 beds.
wilberforce15
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As opposed to completely normal non-covid times where there might be 1500 patients and 1557 beds.
It's not a big deal.
fishtm2001
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“We’ve never been here before. We are in truly now in uncharted territory in terms of our ICU bed capacity,” said Alabama Hospital Association President Dr. Don Williamson.
wilberforce15
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Drama queen.
It's mildly over capacity system-wide. By 11 patients.
Total drama queen.
And he didn't increase staffing or beds in the past 18 months. What a loser.
wilberforce15
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Yeah they don’t count beds they don’t have staff for.
I don’t know how staffing is there but I know here the hospitals are “full” no beds within 2 hours but employees at the hospitals say there’s a decent amount of empty beds. Just no one to staff them.
fishtm2001
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rubbish as usual
wilberforce15
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It's true. They've refused to increase staffing, so they have beds they cannot attend to (at least according to their standards).
In a real pandemic, you hire anybody and everybody, and you increase workload and compensation for all. They haven't done any of that.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Right and this peak we will have volume “we’ve never seen before”
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Sorry you don’t like the truth
wilberforce15
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Yep.
We have trucks with no drivers. They have beds and no nurses. It's the circle of life for penny-pinching over-paid administrators.
fishtm2001
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Excuse me for trusting the Alabama Hospital Association President over you.
wilberforce15
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The guy who had 18 months to add a nurse or a bed and didn't?
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
I feel bad for the employees. Places offering $100 an hour to nurses and RT to come while they pay their own $25 an hour.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
My wife has worked for hospitals for 15+ years. One I thing I have learned. Never trust a thing administration says.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
You have extra trucks?
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Williamson said this doesn’t mean those patients aren’t getting ICU-level care. “They are, but to do that, they are taking up other parts of the hospital that would not normally be made into an ICU unit.”
OMG they had to temporarily write ICU on the dry erase board outside of a few extra rooms!!!! The horror!!!!
wilberforce15
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We have a dozen brand new trucks sitting in a back corner of the yard while we have million-mile package cars limping home every day, and not enough drivers to even fill them.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
‘These people were in bad, bad shape.’ A look inside of a Florida library converted to a Covid-19 treatment site
The scene at the Jacksonville main public library was haunting, Louis Lopez recalled. As he waited for a Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, he saw people so sick they couldn’t even stand…
www.mercurynews.com
This is way better. At least these people can do some vaccine research while they lie on the floor with a shower curtain for warmth.
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