Hospitals ‘Nervous’ Over Knock-on Effects From COVID Medical Supply Breakdown | Talking Points Memo

The expanding outbreak of COVID-19 poses a series of threats to the healthcare system’s ability to treat patients, as hospitals and state governments brace for the disease to impact their communities.


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I don’t understand our hospital’s concerns. Coronavirus is just sort of a bad cold. You can even go to work while you’re dealing with it. And damned near no one dies from it. What the hell is the big deal?

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This is exactly why a Q-Tip is the head of the COVID-45 response.

Who better than a medical supply?

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Despite the documented cases of community transmission, “travel abroad” still remains a requirement (along with symptoms) for testing where I work in California. This is guaranteed to delay the recognition of hotspots, and a sign that the President’s concern with the stock market continues to outweigh any concern for citizens.

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Watch Fox news much? You are SO dangerously wrong.

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Might want to check your snark meter…

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Well this shouldnt be a surprise…

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This is the first time I’ve seen or heard the phrase, “Knock-on”.

WTF? Knock-knock? Knock on wood? Check a bet? Makes no sense.

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Problem:
See EMT holding up the sheet for the presumed corona patient in the above picture from Feb 29?

He’s not wearing gloves. WTF?

Hope he’s self-quarantined now.

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Are you not OK with learning a new term?

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Paging Mike Pence…are you hearing any of this, or are you still busy handling COVID-19 spin for the WH?

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Here’s the word from Tennessee.

Sen. Ferrell Haile, R-Gallatin, a pharmacist, said the statistics related to coronavirus had been “overhyped.” “This is not a lot different than what we experience with the flu.”

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And well they should be. The overall effect of this epidemic/pandemic is an interruption of supply lines. Considering the lack of preparedness of the administration, they’re emphasis on a political response and their belated budgetary reaction, hospitals ought to be a little anxious. It’s their workers, and their families, who are at risk after all.

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One side effect of coronavirus is the inability to roll up a bite of spaghetti using a fork and spoon. Ergo Italians fear coronavirus more than most other ethnic groups.

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I live in a blue metro in a red state. Last year when I was having one of my regular doctor visits, the computer system in the hospital medical group went down for about 10-15 minutes. My physician is also head of the medical group and seems to be pretty up on the latest issues. While waiting for the computer system to come back up, we chatted and he told me then his biggest fear was something like this because he felt the medical system was not prepared for the potential case load. I doubt anything has happened since to make him change his mind.

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At least now authorities know the children vanished from a beach in Hawaii. That’s more than they’ve had to go on previously in this whole sordid affair.

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Dammit, Jim, you’re a pharmacist, not an epidemiologist. And you watch FOX too much. Shut up and do your job—there’s a customer over there confused about which of the Dr. Scholl’s corn cushions to choose.

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This is going to devastate rural hospitals, you know the ones that were already hanging on by a thread.

I think this song reflects Pence’s response.

As for the supply chain giving companies tax breaks to manufacture overseas is not a good idea. Because ramping up domestic production always takes time.

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Is this the case where you hope for them being sex trafficked instead of dead?