For more than three days, Texas Medical Center hospitals had stopped publishing key data after an earlier update seemed to indicate its hospitals were reaching 100% base intensive care capacity, the Houston Chronicle reported on Sunday.
Wow, they must be back to 100% availability! Well played, Governor Abbott!
570 new cases in Dallas County yesterday. That’s a doubling about every 20 days.
Who knew that Rethugliklans would be such huge fans of Soviet techniques?
Besides me, of course.
I’ve been told by a hospital administrator in the Dallas area that their hospital is now just over what they consider capacity for COVID cases. They never came close previously. So, this surge is definitely real.
Rough percentage of masks wearers you’re seeing in public?
Governor Abbott is Stalinesque.
Did Abbott magically wished those Covid ICU patients away?
Never vote RethugniCONS into public service again!
Remember in November
Those GOP governors just learn from the best. If you can count it, it must be zero
TMC hospitals have a combined 373 beds that can be made into ICU beds with a “challenging” but “doable” amount of effort, Boom said.
What does that mean in the real world?
Cots and oxygen bottles in the parking lot…
Patient has cancer? Just throw away the x-ray. No one will know.
“It’s a whole other country.”
I’m not in that area, but was told they’re seeing nearly 100% compliance in the northern areas, don’t know about other areas. I live in a very rural area, and see about 30% of people wearing them. But, there’ve been only 2 cases I know about so far, and those knew about it before coming back to the county.
Do patients get validated parking?
“Stalin on wheels!”
Right, in Houston, in July, during hurricane season. Abbott’s timing could not have been better.
Was just about to post on that same quote. 
It means they can convert areas like the post-anesthesia unit (where patients recover immediately after invasive surgery) into high-acuity inpatient units if necessary. However doing so requires major sacrifice. In the post-anesthesia example, it would mean cancelling elective surgeries so the area is well-below its normal capacity, and that has knock-on effects throughout the healthcare system.
Any (competent) hospital should have some sort of critical care surge plan, but activating it means deactivating something else. Pretty much by definition. It also means things like cancelling vacations for staff, which of course is doable in the short or medium term but risks burnout the longer it goes.
Get the feeling the Texas Republican overlords don’t want their citizens to know just how badly they have fucked up?
