So, “Democrats in Disarray” again, eh?
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Operating rooms and recovery room areas can easily be converted to ICU space. To do that you have to cancel all but emergency surgeries and you have to have the ICU nurses and Docs to staff the expanded beds. That was one of the big problems in NYC. They had to staff ICUs with people with very little ICU experience. This is what leads to increased death rates for COVID patients as well as non-COVID ICU patients.
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Like, in the middle of this shit? They sent 30 people out to get sick and spread the virus? Are they even moderately sentient?
ETA: Also, are they aware that there are already a bunch of Christian churches in San Antonio? Salvation is already at hand, no need for 30 dumbasses from wherever you are to save the locals from themselves.
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Not your usual “Tigerbeat on the Potomac” kind of article, it would seem. Surprisingly fact-based.
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They don’t have to be. They’re religious…
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A massive COVID outbreak in Washington State was traced to a choir, resulting in dozens of infections and multiple fatalities. I listened to an interview on NPR with an infectious disease expert/doctor, and he said the mechanics of a large choir performance was possibly the most deadly activity people could engage in during this pandemic. And there was Pence, applauding what looked like dozens of maskless singers in a church full of shoulder to shoulder maskless congregants.
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One would think that we (as a nation, don’t ya know) would have reached the critical mass required for our spell-checking software to stop suggesting that we correct “Rethug,” etc…
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“These epidemics are going to be hard to get under control,” said Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and an informal adviser to the Trump administration. He said he expects deaths to soon climb to more than 1,000 per day again. “It’s going to continue to spread until you do something to intervene. I’m not sure we are taking enough forceful action to break the trend right now.”
Meanwhile in Florida’s “Western Annex”.
In Arizona, public health experts and local officials largely credit lobbying efforts by mayors for pushing Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to reverse his position and allow cities to implement mask requirements as they saw fit.
Kristen Pogreba-Brown, an epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, said she found it “disgusting” to watch politics penetrate considerations about public health precautions. She pointed in particular to issues of testing following the president’s erroneous suggestion that increased testing is to blame for the scope of the outbreak.
“The fact that we don’t have a federal testing program is pretty embarrassing, frankly,” she said, noting that her university is developing its own in-house testing system, because “we don’t have faith people can go out and get tested in the community.”
(Same WAPO article I posted earlier up thread.)
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Joking aside? Actually, Houston does have a plan for this:
NRG Stadium is connected to The Medical Center Houston complex by light rail which might help facilitate movement of staff and supplies.
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With a sidetrack being built to a potter’s field on the outskirts of town.
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They were wearing the Armor of Jesus.
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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…
Because nothing says you’re “Winning!” better than hiding the score!!!
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Because the Trump " wishing it away" policy has worked so well thus far…
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Not likely. Took decades to get this nearly-useless stretch of track laid.
Uhhhh…“die motherfuckers”?
I’m surprised we haven’t heard of the USNS Comfort (one of the Navy’s Hospital Ships) being deployed to either Florida, Texas or Georgia. They’re currently still at Portsmouth/Norfolk after returning from New York.
I know there were issues with their employment in New York, but I would expect improved procedures and sheer need would put it back into use.
I wonder, once we have a competent government, what the fatality numbers will actually turn out to be.
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Oh, THAT Henny Youngman? Who do you think I stole it from?
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.[rimshot]
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“We have some great news to report! Although our usage of our ICU beds has, indeed, reached 100% of capacity, the Ministry of Plenty has confirmed that the official ICU capacity has been increased to 200%.”
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