16% of Ohio's coronavirus cases are healthcare workers

[OhioChick]

Posted Mar 25, 2020

CLEVELAND, Ohio --About 16 percent of Ohio’s coronavirus cases are healthcare workers, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton said Wednesday.

More healthcare workers are tested for the disease, also known as COVID-19, Acton said. For the first time, at a statehouse news briefing, she released a total number of tests, at 14,764. That gives a 5 percent positive rate for tests statewide.

Ohio has 704 coronavirus cases and 10 deaths, as of Wednesday. She expects the numbers to grow Thursday.

Over 20 percent of coronavirus patients are hospitalized, with about 11 percent of total cases requiring intensive care units. Acton said the state needs to double the capacity of ICUs.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/03/16-of-ohios-coronavirus-cases-are-healthcare-workers.html

[procon]

1. How is that happening?

Is the state not making PPE available to everyone in healthcare? Are hospitals out of PPE and can't get govt to help supply what the need? Or is everyone in denial and the safety of these professionals are just not as important as the goddamn dollars saved by not supplying them with protective equipment?

Have the healthcare employers adequately trained all their employees from the janitorial workers to physicians on how to practice official safety guidelines? Do they have everything they need to stay ssfe?

The numbers are just too high. Even if you expect that some healthcare workers will die despite best practices, they shouldn't have numbers like this unless something in the processes and procedures have gone terribly wrong. That means someone in charge, some high ranking official(s) have been criminally negligent in letting it get so far out of control.

[OhioChick]

2. Not enough PPE available and soon to run out

Limited to one N-95 to be used daily for 5 days.

My son's GF is an ICU nurse dealing with Coronavirus patients and doesn't even have a surgical mask in the ICU.

This has nothing to do with practicing safety guidelines but instead, not getting the government to supply what they need.

The government clearly isn't concerned about the safety of the professionals.

Too concerned about the economy and Wall St. while people are dying.

[lostnfound]

3. High risk for sure, but they are the people most likely to get tested now

I just received a message from my North Carolina county saying that only people over 65 and health care workers would get tests now.

[Botany]

4. But Trump and Mike Pence told us that we have huge stock piles of P.P.E. and ...

... just yesterday Trump said that the auto manufacturing plants are making P.P.E.
and other medical supplies right now.

[OhioChick]

5. They're FOS, expired shit again?

Auto manufacturing plants are going to take a while to ramp this up, much longer than we realize. (Or should I say longer than trump and pence realize)

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/24/ford-and-3m-ge-and-the-uaw-to-build-respirators-ventilators-and-faceshields-for-coronavirus-fight/

No worries though, everything will be fine by Easter.

[Botany]

6. I have no doubt that if you gave the engineers, machinists, tool and die folk, and line workers ....

... a job to make almost anything in the world they could do it but not overnight but an auto body
stamping plant can not make ventilators or hospital gowns overnight.

Al Franken, "The President is Crazy." https://alfranken.com/read/the-president-is-crazy


Stay Safe

[OhioChick]

7. Oh, I agree

Trump makes it sound as if the auto manufacturing plants are going to be up, running and producing what's needed, overnight. It's going to take a lot of time for this, time which we don't have.

Thanks for the link, I'll read that next.

I recall trump saying something about contacting 3M to ramp up the manufacturing of masks quite a while back.

Weeks after this was said, I called 3M Global Resources to see if I could buy N-95's for my kids. Unfortunately, I was unable to. I asked if they began ramping up after trump announced that he was in contact with them a month or so prior to my call.

They were shocked and said they heard nothing from the government, it was news to them.

You stay safe, too!

[Botany]

8. This was 100% preventable

We did not need a global pandemic response team

We did not need that epidemiologist in China from the CDC watching out for potential global pandemics

We did not need scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine (SARs) that was defunded in 2018 (I think that is the date)

We did not need those W.H.O.'s C-19 test kits

We did not need to know about the late Jan./early Feb. C-19 case in Seattle that was discovered by
Seattle's Dept. of Health and the University of Washington. (Trump's CDC told them not to talk about
their findings and to stop testing.)

We did not need to prepare for C-19 after our intel briefed Trump and company about the threat that
coronavirus was to America and the world.