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#61,830
Carl Pickens said:
Are their hospitals over capacity? If not, then keep moving forward. Herd immunity is the answer.....
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Something came out about a hospital (maybe a certain health system???) in Houston at 100% capacity. I couldn't tell if it was from Covid19 patients or their regularly scheduled surgeries/recoveries plus Covid19s.
 
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#61,831
NurseGoodVol said:
Only upper 70 age group, one exception a 40 year old with co morbidities. They are really starting to thin out. We only had 3 when I left this morning out of 28 icu beds.
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I was just curious..... we are really thin here as well..... it’s a shame we can’t trust what the media, politicians, or scientists are telling us.
 
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McDad said:
Something came out about a hospital (maybe a certain health system???) in Houston at 100% capacity. I couldn't tell if it was from Covid19 patients or their regularly scheduled surgeries/recoveries plus Covid19s.
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I believe that the 100% stat was ICU beds and only 27% of those were Covid related. The hospital itself said that being at full capacity wasn’t abnormal.
 
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SIAP but the GA executive order expires after tomorrow. So local jurisdictions will be able to enact stricter measures.

I am hearing that the mayor will be doing a whole bunch of look at me stuff at that time. Expect it to stay away from protestors but punish other good actors.
 
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So I dont know if this is a thing elsewhere, as it's what I was told way back in March. But here in GA they are still recommending you not go to a hospital to get tested. That's not saying dont get tested, just dont do it at a hospital. Find one of the testing centers. Preferably a drive up.

Someone I know down here just talked to their PCP about what to do because he was exposed and they said use a testing center not a hospital.

This got me thinking about the reasons why? One obvious is not strain the healthcare workers so they can focus on helping the sick.

The second is the spread.

We are testing about 7% positivity. So if you use a drive up you arent exposed to anything new. Or at worst what ever lingers from the 7% before you. Pretty good odds you dont have it even if exposed.

However, you go to a hospital and you are around people who 100% have it, and are working with health care workers who have been heavily exposed to it.

When I first talked with my PCP I just thought it was so I didnt spread to others. But the flipping the argument makes a lot of sense to me as well.

Idk just shower thoughts.
 
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#61,847
NurseGoodVol said:
In our area they do. I've never been called off due to low census. I know we stay busy because of the outer banks hospitals that stabilize people and ship them to us.
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Yeah if you get hurt in the OBX you're either going to Raleigh, Norfolk or Greenville. Their hospital is the size of kroger lol
 
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#61,850
rjd970 said:
This all day. Healthy folks shouldn’t be worrying. As long as at risk folks isolate, let’s speed up the herd immunity.
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Are you dense? Herd immunity means sickness, long term disabilities and/or a death sentence for a lot of people. I am not ready to write off people like that. Your position is akin to the Nazi's ideas of killing off "useless eaters" as it devalues the lives of some over others. I wonder if you are a Christian because Jesus would virulently disagree with you.
 
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