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No reason to let data get in the way of doom and gloom, the latter being far more exiting.
The Institute for Health Metrics have published charts that show Tennessee has more that enough hospital beds and adequate (but not a large surplus) ICU beds.
No reason to let data get in the way of doom and gloom, the latter being far more exiting.
The Institute for Health Metrics have published charts that show Tennessee has more that enough hospital beds and adequate (but not a large surplus) ICU beds.
I go with data from Johns Hopkins and the news is not good. What the hell.
No reason to let data get in the way of doom and gloom, the latter being far more exiting.
The Institute for Health Metrics have published charts that show Tennessee has more that enough hospital beds and adequate (but not a large surplus) ICU beds.
Yes, Tennessee is in pretty good shape if people take this seriously and adhere to the idea of social distancing. Not a matter of doom and gloom, just have to be practical about the downside if this is not handled right. The big problem would be if people get complacent and do dumb things like the church choir in Washington that had a practice and now a lot of them are infected and a couple are dead. Things like that could snowball and overwhelm our medical system pretty quickly.
We have the resources to come through this if, we the people, do our part to keep this under control.
Yes, Tennessee is in pretty good shape if people take this seriously and adhere to the idea of social distancing. ...
We have the resources to come through this if, we the people, do our part to keep this under control.
Do you have any observation that this is in fact happening? I'd be surprised, not because it's Tennessee, but it's people and observations so far aren't very good.
This is going to get real bad, all over. Do what you can to protect yourself and others. Wear a mask in public. Have groceries home delivered or pick them up. Keep 6 feet away from people. Wipe down everything and wash your hands. It is all hands on deck, this is a real crisis.
If it gets severe in Tennessee, there won't be any referred to Nashville or driving to UT Medical Center Knoxville. They will have the No Vacancy signs hung out as they will be swamped from their immediate areas.
Like it or not our well being is pretty much going to depend on the hospitals in our immediate areas.
This is true.
I live in an Upstate NY county.
When gov. Cuomo said he would not hesitate to ship covid-19 ( or other patients) to upstate areas, our county executive leaders quickly informed us via news conference that "we will take care of our OWN PEOPLE FIRST, before any of the rest of that stuff from NYC comes"!
I think after enough county executives noted the same thing, was the reason Cuomo backtracked on that issue.
But still, if hospital beds are available in one area and needed for another, I can see an executive order stating the counties elsewhere must obey the transfer orders if push comes to shove.
He could always penalize unwilling counties by cutting out or cutting off state funding.
Our county now has 19 cases. Two were travelers. The other 17 include 16 nursing home residents and a healthcare worker at the nursing home.
Is Nebraska shutting down/stay in place? I was reading that Lincoln has the Biolevel 4 lab and treated some of the first COVID people in the country. I'd think that people would be aware of what needs to be done.
So now some hospitals are threatening to fire medical personnel if they publicize what conditions are really like at their medical facilities. Can't let the public know that things are not going well.
Reminds me of the movie where Jack Nicholson snarls "You can"t handle the truth"!
So now some hospitals are threatening to fire medical personnel if they publicize what conditions are really like at their medical facilities. Can't let the public know that things are not going well.
Appalling. I have many friends in healthcare in hot zones- Boston, Miami. Nurses. Terrible.
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