At the already filled Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville

[redstateblues]

the parking garage now is filled with hospital beds

[Tanuki]

1. What is your source for this?

[redstateblues]

2. There's a picture on Facebook

[Tanuki]

3. Can you provide a link? They have been doing screening in a garage area.

[Roland99]

9. It's just screening

https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/vanderbilt-university-medical-center-offering-covid-19-assessment-stations/

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) —Vanderbilt University Medical Center is taking precautions amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

The facility is limiting visitors to the hospitals and clinics in addition to posting a list of coronavirus do’s and don’ts on their website.

Currently, the hospital is offering COVID-19 assessment stations, one of which is inside one of the parking garages.

[Tanuki]

5. The reason I am asking for a source is that I live in Nashville and

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this would be huge news. My understanding is that there have only been a few hospitalizations.

[volstork]

6. I am in Nashville as well

and this is the first I have heard of this.

[steve2470]

10. I think this might be the source

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/vanderbilt-university-medical-center-setting-up-temporary-covid-19-screening-area?fbclid=IwAR1xxTfcpGJrkMRGS-rHJvtM7QrHM0CKhLrOoNdSaNyn1V40PaPMQyG5VA0

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Didn't Mother's boy say he wanted to keep those 65/older out of the hospitals, put them in the

parking lots?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Not specifically mentioned on WSM-TV but....

Davidson County (Nashville) now has 101 cases and 228 for the state. Looks like a cluster of counties around Davidson all have outbreaks and Vandy is the premier hospital there. My dad passed away there many years ago. Lots of family still in the area.

For the latest.......

Tennessee now has 228 confirmed cases of COVID-19
Derry London, Digital Content Manager
Updated 20 min ago | Posted on Mar 13, 2020

See: https://www.wsmv.com/news/local/tennessee-now-has-confirmed-cases-of-covid/article_f4efd3c2-655b-11ea-8529-27ad6afbb392.html

KY..............

[malaise]

19. Didn't Davidson country suffer severe damage from a tornado a few weeks ago?

Holy Shit - how much is enough!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Yes, tore hell out of east Nashville & beyond with 25 killed.

A lot of damage in the county I was raised in east of Nashville too, and 19 of the 25 people killed were near the mountainous county further east where my college town is located.

Triple whammy for the area: tornado, coronavirus and Republicans (*).......

(*) Area was almost 100% Democrat when I was a kid there.......

[Lars39]

8. I think I saw the pic you're referring

I have to confess it did look like one of their garages.

[redstateblues]

15. I know that garage-I've taken my wife to the emergency room twice this year

for heart issues. Fortunately, we are hunkered down at home

[volstork]

11. There are 228 confirmed cases

of Covid-19 in the state as of this AM, with 101 in Davidson county.

The Vanderbilt "information" should likely be taken with a grain of salt.

[Lars39]

12. I found this article with pic

https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/vanderbilt-university-medical-center-offering-covid-19-assessment-stations/

[Tanuki]

13. But that is just a screening station, set up to keep potential covid-19 patients

out of the ER and other areas where they might infect other patients and staff. This is not what the OP is saying.

[Lars39]

14. The pic I saw looked like rows of beds in a parking lot.

Could have been a triage area, but beds looked pretty close.
I just looked at myhealth...didn't see anything new.

[redstateblues]

16. that's the picture I saw. It's startling but Vandy is trying to get ahead of the curve

[Lars39]

17. I trust them more than our governor.

Weak as water

[redstateblues]

18. A friend that works for Trane here in Nashville is working on a ventilation system

for the parking garage that is being used at Vandy for triage

[Tanuki]

21. According to the latest press release from the Davidson County Health Department,

following the death of the state's first fatality there are only 2 covid-19 patients that are hospitalized in the entire county. One of them has previously been reported to be at Centennial, so that leaves at most 1 at VUMC. That could change rapidly and Vanderbilt is undoubtedly making contingency plans for a worst-case scenario. However, unsubstantiated claims that the hospital is "already filled" and the implication that sick patients are now in beds in the parking garage is just not true and causes unnecessary alarm in an already stressful time. Your friend undoubtedly made his Facebook post in good faith, but it is incumbent on all of us to be careful of the accuracy of the information we pass along.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/mayor-john-cooper-metro-health-to-give-covid-19-update-at-9-30-a-m

"...Dr. Alex Jahangir said the age range for all confirmed cases in Nashville is from 11 to 73 years old. Of the confirmed cases, one patient has died from complications due to the new coronavirus and two others remain hospitalized. 19 people have recovered from the virus, an increase of four in the past 24 hours.

The remaining 111 cases are self-isolating at home and have mild and manageable symptoms."

(Nashville's cases have skewed young, the majority under 40, which may explain the low rate of hospitalization and complications so far.
That could certainly change ).