Coronavirus

[Singuy]

Update from our hospital network in Central FL.

We now have 108 pts who are pt positive hospitalized in our network. This is 2x more than our peak earlier April.
The good news is that our ICU usage for these pt is only at 8, and only 3 are on ventilators. Compare this to our first peak in April, only 3/108pts are on vents today vs 26/53 pts back in April. Every pt is either being treated with Remdesivir or convalescent plasma. We also improved our respiratory management. Our hospital is attributing our drop in ventilator usage to these factors.

 

[DanCar]

... deleted another crappy statement ...

I'm also hard-pressed to find a single post of yours that contributed to the discussion of covid-19 other than to dismiss its seriousness including not a single post on epidemiology, biology, treatment, outcome, Etc. If you have made a contribution to the discussions about covid-19 please point to that post cuz I just can't find it

Many posts. Must be some good dope you are smoking. Coronavirus

 

[Dr. J]

I'm now about ready to release for licensing to a certain political party the most relevant slogan of the day "where trump goes, death follows."

You might get an infringement suit from Rick Wilson: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Trump-Touches-Dies-Republican/dp/1982103124

 

[dhanson865]

darn it our health department here doesn't understand Trumps message, they keep testing and we have more cases, record numbers of new cases.

We are almost out of ICU beds, notice the beds and ventilator data is 5 days older than the test results.

At least we have plenty of ventilators available.

 

[RobStark]

There are two meat processing plants closed in US and one in Canada.

COVID-19 meat facility closure tracker

 

[dhanson865]

There are two meat processing plants closed in US and one in Canada.

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COVID-19 meat facility closure tracker

Two? There are two on that map in one status (orange circles) and dozens that are closed (red circles), 9 that are reopened (blue/gray circles)

 

[dhanson865]

Tennessee's largest county could return to Phase 1 of reopening due to spike in COVID-19 cases

 

[RobStark]

Two? There are two on that map in one status (orange circles) and dozens that are closed (red circles), 9 that are reopened (blue/gray circles)

The red dots with numbers can be closed, limited operations, or reopened.

Click the link and you can click "+" sign to zoom in.

Those red dots with numbers in them become blue and orange mostly

 

[RobStark]

For example this is what happens to the "Red 2" in Texas.

 

[cwerdna]

Talk about stupid crap in the middle of a pandemic! This is from an Arizona Republican.

A new GOP bill would give each taxpayer $4,000 to take a vacation anywhere in the US through the end of 2021
This senator wants to give you a big tax credit to take a vacation

Wouldn't be a terrible idea if we had very effective treatments and/or a vaccine... but now?

 

[HG Wells]

Talk about stupid crap in the middle of a pandemic! This is from an Arizona Republican.

A new GOP bill would give each taxpayer $4,000 to take a vacation anywhere in the US through the end of 2021
This senator wants to give you a big tax credit to take a vacation

Wouldn't be a terrible idea if we had very effective treatments and/or a vaccine... but now?

But its a way to balance the budget. Put the death tax back to just one or two million with no loopholes.
In 3 months we could pay back the stimulus. / S

 

[SageBrush]

These days AZ has very good Covid-19 data reporting. In time to chart their jump off a cliff into hospital collapse. IIRC AZ has a total inpatient capacity of 2800 beds. Elon can sell them tents

 

[CyberGus]

 

[SageBrush]

I find it interesting that the local newspapers of the collapsing states (AZ, FL, TX) report the increasingly dire hospital situation reasonably well but not a one mentions the past few weeks that each of those states had increasing case loads but did not take action because their politicos bought into the 'it is from more tests' BS

Now they are kinda sorta, maybe taking action but it is too late. The simple lesson of epidemics is that either you act early and aggressively, or you are too late. It is an exponential thang with lag built in. Way too complicated for trumpers.

 

[Doggydogworld]

Compare this to our first peak in April, only 3/108pts are on vents today vs 26/53 pts back in April.

San Antonio had 42/84 patients on vents in mid-April, 79/518 yesterday. Same general trend, but not nearly as dramatic.

There seems to be a real effort these days to keep people off ventilators as long as possible, since the vent survival rate is so low with COVID.

 

[Singuy]

San Antonio had 42/84 patients on vents in mid-April, 79/518 yesterday. Same general trend, but not nearly as dramatic.

There seems to be a real effort these days to keep people off ventilators as long as possible, since the vent survival rate is so low with COVID.

Since our volume was low, we had plenty of Remdesivir so every pt was on it. Our stock however is dwindling as of yesterday. I wonder if most pts are on the drug in San Antonio

 

[Daniel in SD]

There seems to be a real effort these days to keep people off ventilators as long as possible, since the vent survival rate is so low with COVID.

Other than "proning" I've been wondering what is being done to keep patients off of ventilators? I figured invasive ventilation has always been a last resort.
It's good to hear that treatment is improving.

 

[SageBrush]

There seems to be a real effort these days to keep people off ventilators as long as possible, since the vent survival rate is so low with COVID.

correlation is not causation, and while ventilation has its own adverse effects, here it is a marker of Covid severity.

The push to keep people off vents has to do with vent supply, ICU beds, and ventilator associated personnel

Tangential trivia: 'Proning' is also a time honored position for people on vents. It is mostly used in sedated patients, in part due to patient discomfort. The general idea is to put the least involved lung tissue on the top so it is not under the the weight of the soggy, involved tissue.

 

[AlanSubie4Life]

These days AZ has very good Covid-19 data reporting. In time to chart their jump off a cliff into hospital collapse. IIRC AZ has a total inpatient capacity of 2800 beds. Elon can sell them tents

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Get your hospital bed now, before they run out! Maybe those kids at the rally yesterday are smarter than we thought?

 

[NikolaACDC]

CDC director: US has about 28,000 contact tracers, needs 100,000
"Redfield said at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that the number of contact tracers has increased from around 6,000 in January to around 28,000 as of early June. But he said the country needs to "continue to increase in my view towards 100,000.""

If there was just a way to make this happen. But I guess there isn't, so onward and upwards it is...

But then there's this bit:https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243748642.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243748642.html
"Contact tracers find positive coronavirus cases, determine the patient’s contacts, and connect people with services to test and isolate, NPR reported. Many states already have a bank of trained volunteers or workers reserved, bringing the nation’s total to 68,525 contact tracers - still well below the 100,000 mark Redfield aims for, according to NPR."

What does 'have...reserved' mean? They're currently in training?
Or they are ready to go and it was decided not to use them?