‘There are only so many beds’: COVID-19 surge hits hospitals

[libertybele]

Here we go again, only the concern I am feeling is that this is our off season and come our in season which is Thanksgiving  - Easter the capacity will be stretched further than it's ever been. We are always stretched during season.  So many have moved down, that our hospital capacity is already peaking and I don't believe it's just from COVID.  Having to put off elective procedures again, is a true health issue.

‘There are only so many beds’: COVID-19 surge hits hospitals

Florida hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are suspending elective surgeries and putting beds in conference rooms, an auditorium and a cafeteria. In Georgia, medical centers are turning people away for lack of space. And in Louisiana, the sick are left waiting and waiting some more in the emergency room before being airlifted elsewhere.

“We are seeing a surge like we’ve not seen before in terms of the patients coming,” Dr. Marc Napp, chief medical officer for Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida, said Wednesday. “It’s the sheer number coming in at the same time. There are only so many beds, so many doctors, only so many nurses.”

Coronavirus hospitalizations are surging again as the more contagious delta variant rages across the country, forcing medical centers to return to a crisis footing just weeks after many closed their COVID-19 wards and field hospitals and dropped other emergency measures.

The number of people now in the hospital in the U.S. with the virus has more than tripled over the past month, from an average of roughly 12,000 to almost 43,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That is still nowhere close to the nearly 124,000 in hospitals at the very peak of the winter surge in January. But health experts say this wave is perhaps more worrying because it has risen more swiftly than prior ones. Also, a disturbingly large share of patients this time are young adults.............

https://www.winknews.com/2021/08/05/covid-in-florida-hospitals-there-are-only-so-many-beds/

[PeteS in CA]

From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ , while FL's new cases numbers are similar to the winter surge, daily deaths are half of those during the winter surge. That suggests that cases are less severe, so how are FL hospitals overwhelmed by something like half of what they worked through during the winter surge. It doesn't add up. Either someone is exaggerating or information is missing/omitted.

[Smokin Joe]

panic....Panic....PANIC, damn you!

Mo-om, the Media are at it again..

[MajorClay]

lies, all lies

[Wingnut]

“They rely on the most alarming anecdotes from individuals who work in hospitals without verifying the capacity data, available beds, or providing context about the flexibilities hospitals have to meet their patients’ needs,” he said.

As of Aug. 5, the total number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida was 12,888. Last summer the hospitalizations peaked on July 22 with 12,282 beds occupied by COVID-19 patients, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.

On a conference call with the governor on Wednesday, Hospital CEOs stressed that hospitals still have sufficient capacity. They also said that not all patients were suffering from COVID-19 symptoms.

John Couris, President and CEO of Tampa General Hospital, suggested that Floridians “not delay care.”

“The hospitals are ready, and we’re able to take care of patients in a crisis and an emergency,” Couris told the group. “At TGH right now we have 126 COVID patients—we are a 1,041-bed hospital. That’s a little over 10 percent of our beds devoted right now to COVID patients.”

According to HHS data, as of Aug. 5, the state’s hospitals had more than 84 percent of beds occupied. COVID-19 patients accounted for around 25 percent of the occupied beds. The state had over 9,000 hospital beds available, according to the data.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/desantis-hospital-ceos-seek-to-calm-fears-over-hospital-availability-amid-covid-19-increase__trashed_3935658.html

[Kamaji]

Query:  how many of these new hospitalizations are due to the infected illegals Biden has been shipping into Florida?

Perhaps this is the result they secretly intend to happen from that little exercise in biowarfare?