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As of Tuesday, Aug. 17, St. Charles had 61 total COVID-19 patients, the most ever. Because those patients require critical care, patients who are only slightly less sick — people who need surgery for cancer, heart conditions or other needs — must be put on hold. Since most of those surgeries would require an overnight stay to recover, they have slowed considerably. Dr. Merrill said in normal times the hospital would perform as many as 30 elective surgeries a day where the patient stays overnight to recover. Now, because so few beds are available, surgeons do just five elective in patient surgeries a day.
“We are completely packed. We have not been able to provide surgical care to patients for many months,” Dr. Merrill said.”
Among staff who've been working the frontlines from the beginning, there is now a profound sadness and frustration that none of this needs to be happening.
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first off what covid test is being used? Pcr tests who the inventor mr mullis said should not be used for virus detection. The same ones the fda said are no longer valid because they can’t differentiate between the flu and Covid?
icus run at 80-90% capacity always to run profit. It only takes 1 Covid patent to put most hospitals at icu bed capacity. So the news says “ICU’s OVERUN”. They are not lying, but people who don’t grasp how hospitals run don’t understand what they are saying
the feds sent Florida ventilators, the media was sure to tell this story…. But Desantis said he wasn’t even aware, and said he was in contact with all hospital ceos/boards and none asked for extra ventilators.
first of all, parents get tested for COVID when they get to the hospital. Broken arm and need it to be set via surgery? Covid test. That counts as a covid hospitalization even if no symptoms and even if for something unrelated
my wife literally works in the Operating room doing elective surgery’s. She had to report to an emergency surgery last week where a patient was Covid positive, yet was on the brink of death due to a unsuccessful hip surgery and infection. She most likely ended up in the icu and died after the surgery.
=Covid hospitalization and most likely Covid icu statistic snd most likely Covid death….. all stemming from an elderly lady who fell, had a massive fracture, a first surgery that didn’t go well and an infection after.
My state shut them down because the cdc and feds are forcing them to take extreme precautions, segregating parents ect. Hospitals are not going to go against that be than liable if a fat diabetic dies.
medical workers know how overblown this whole thing is. I live in a red state where the media says everybody is dying, yet they are shipping out nurses to other states. There are not enough patients due to the stoppage of elective’s.
this article is from “ground zero”, hospitals are still able to handle the patent load
A statement says "three out of four Florida hospitals expect to face critical staff shortages in the next seven days".
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