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RandySF

(58,823 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2020, 04:48 AM Mar 2020

NYC hospitals will be at capacity in four days.

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Michael Donnelly
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(1/) Five days ago I forecast that NYC’s hospitals would be at capacity with #coronavirus cases by Mar 30. I was wrong. New data suggest that #NYC’s hospitals will reach capacity of approx. 3,000 cases by Mar 24. #shutdownNYC

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NYC hospitals will be at capacity in four days. (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP

Welcome to Trumpistan... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #1

Wow.... OhioChick Mar 2020 #2

Seeing this now duforsure Mar 2020 #3

Capitalism, it is an ISM! Brainfodder Mar 2020 #4

I am shocked that NYC hospitals have so few beds thecrow Mar 2020 #5

I think that was 3000 beds for Corona cases DFW Mar 2020 #6

Hospitals run almost full at 80% capacity most of the time, not much room for any kind of surge Baclava Mar 2020 #7

3000 ICU beds Sunsky Mar 2020 #8

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)

1. Welcome to Trumpistan...

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 04:50 AM

Mar 2020

best healthcare in the world.

OhioChick

(23,218 posts)

2. Wow....

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 05:04 AM

Mar 2020

I'm speechless.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

3. Seeing this now

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 05:09 AM

Mar 2020

Every Governor , since trump refuses to do his job , needs to be lining up hotels near hospitals to use and have them set up ASAP,, and employ people now to start making PPE and equipment after being stiffed by trump for it. Every Governor needs to get busy getting temperature guns to be made in huge numbers for monitoring everyone, everywhere, now. I also see Republican Governors dragging their feet like trump is doing.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)

4. Capitalism, it is an ISM!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 05:17 AM

Mar 2020

Socialism isn't bad, people are.

I can prove it, Jared & his bro with DJT & surely others, conspired to wait on testing for the C-19 virus so that they could profit from it?

News to you?
Search on Oscar Health, only takes a minute, you'll be upset, but educated?

thecrow

(5,519 posts)

5. I am shocked that NYC hospitals have so few beds

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Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:15 AM

Mar 2020

Why is that? I wonder how many beds there are in my town.
I have a middle aged child in NYC and one in FL.
Guess I am gonna die alone at home with my dog.

DFW

(54,378 posts)

6. I think that was 3000 beds for Corona cases

Reply to thecrow (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:22 AM

Mar 2020

I have a daughter there, and know for a fact that they also need beds for people that get sick from other things besides corona. The 3000 figure was just what they had thought they might need for corona cases. Kinda scary that that number turned out to be inadequate so quickly.

Baclava

(12,047 posts)

7. Hospitals run almost full at 80% capacity most of the time, not much room for any kind of surge

Reply to thecrow (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:40 AM

Mar 2020

Sunsky

(1,737 posts)

8. 3000 ICU beds

Reply to thecrow (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:43 AM

Mar 2020

When I worked in critical care at a top hospital in FL we only had 22 ICU beds on two units. In bad times we'd use the ER as ICU overflow. Even in that case our most critical patients had to be on the unit (quick access to the staff and the essentials) while the less critical were triaged to the overflow beds and push to discharge patients. It is extremely stressful.

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