There are 2.6 million people in Dallas County. On Wednesday, there were 26 ICU beds left

[Horse with no Name]

I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a disaster in the making.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/11/27/the-rate-of-covid-19-patients-in-north-texas-hospitals-just-crossed-gov-abbotts-red-line/?vgo_ee=JJrweQnoiSpKUlHy3wOnRWQOP8ZXmRzMvz3Yw%2BcA7gI%3D

[JCMach1]

1. Nurse friend told me they are sending Covid patients from the hospital

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She works at... There is NO room

In Dallas. Not mentioning hospital for obvious reasons.

Things are going downhill quickly. Keep in mind Dallas is a MAJOR medical hub.

Also story in local DFW news about the how Dallas hospitals filling up doesn't allow rural hospitals to transfer anyone.

[roamer65]

3. Sending them home?

[JCMach1]

12. No room

[roamer65]

14. Here we go.

October 1918 - June 1919 redux.

[orleans]

4. sending them where? n/t

[JCMach1]

15. The words my friend used was home to die... She can be pretty blunt

[roamer65]

16. That's means they are triaging like Italy earlier this year.

[JCMach1]

27. I don't think so yet... Shifting them to other hospitals in the hospital district

Of Dallas. But the space is filling up, which means if you get sick now, unlike my experience in September, there may or may not be experimental meds available and you probably won't see a virologist (I owe that Dr. My life) even IF they have a bed.

Stay safe, it's going to be rough out there.

[Hugin]

30. As someone who was once "sent home" (to die)...

due to having contracted viral meningitis a decade before a vaccine was available.

I can tell you quite frankly that there's not any more psychologically devastating thing which can happen to a person. It tinges my world view and self-image to this day.

[JCMach1]

31. As bad as being in a Covid ward is, it saved my life in September

[Hugin]

32. The people who work in those wards are so courageous it is beyond words.

One of the things that haunts me about my experience was the visible terror in the faces of the ER staff when the test came back and they realized what they were looking at in me. They were completely unequipped for the situation.

[JCMach1]

33. Even ER are old hats at this now

Like clockwork they stabilized my oxygen. Got me the right meds, x-rays and then kicked me upstairs.

They did a good job as well.

I hate that they are overwhelmed.

[Ms. Toad]

7. My uncle, near death with COVID on Wednesday

was moved to short term nursing care facility on Thursday in a town two hours away. He had improved enough that they decided someone else needed the hospital bed, and apparently nothing closer was available.

(Wisconsin)

[roamer65]

17. I have been telling people here in rural MI there will be no going to large city hospitals.

Those will already be full. People are about to get a hard dose of reality very quickly.

The rural ones will be the worst.

[Hugin]

28. Lubbock is a medical hub, too.

I haven't heard much coming out of there... Maybe I should do some poking around in the stats.

[SunSeeker]

2. OMFG

[orleans]

5. maybe they'll be flown to other counties with the mask exemptions due to low case counts

"Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask order took effect July 3. Children under 10 are excepted. Counties with 20 or fewer active COVID-19 cases can apply to the state for exemption. As of late November, 28 of the state’s 254 counties had exemptions due to low case counts."
https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/states-mask-mandates-coronavirus.html#Texas

[tanyev]

21. I've been keeping tabs on the rural county where I grew up.

About 4 weeks ago some guy came to Commissioner's Court to ask the judge to apply for the exemption so they could stop wearing the stupid masks. The judge declined. I'm gonna give him props for that, because the county went overwhelmingly for Trump. Two weeks later, two county offices had to close because of several employees testing positive. The last issue of the weekly newspaper said they had 36 more cases in 3 days.

[Horse with no Name]

22. I am an RN in Dallas. It is grim

But I have a lot of friends that work in the rural hospitals and they are near full as well.
The rural hospitals always have the city as backup.
Until now.

[roamer65]

6. At least we don't have Hillary as president.

[winstars]

8. Do you know she had a email sever in her BASEMENT!!!! OMG!!!!

[roamer65]

9. OMG. The EMAILS!

[winstars]

11. Thats right, she sent...emails from her basement and.... BENGAZI was something too, I think

[roamer65]

13. A 400lb guy running the server in her basement?

[roamer65]

10. You all realize at a certain point this may become like the Titanic.

When the band starts playing “Nearer my God to thee”, it’s everyone for themselves.



...and not joking sarcasm....very dry ominous sarcasm.

[roamer65]

18. ..

Link to tweet

And it can only be worse since 6 days ago.

[Horse with no Name]

23. 100% truth.

If nothing else keeps you at home, this should.
It’s not just about Covid. It’s about heart attacks and broken limbs and car accidents.

[DFW]

19. When you have a singular combination of meanness, incompetence and corruption as we do

As non-Republican as Dallas is, we have a regime in Austin that is about as good for Texas as Pol Pot was for Cambodia.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Too bad the hospitals can't turn away all those

who thought the virus was a hoax and didn't wear a mask and went to church or attended a wedding or some other event with a lot of people.

[Horse with no Name]

24. Honestly

I believe this too.

[shrike3]

26. I feel the same way.

But they'll be taken care of anyway.

[uponit7771]

25. +1, it's not even the beds its the resources and staff that are even more short handed

[JCMach1]

29. Exactly, I don't see a virologist in September in hospital, I probably don't make it

Not to mention nurses and therapists