Houston ICU is 90% full and expected to exceed capacity in just 2 weeks

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https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/proposed-early-warning-monitoring-and-mitigation-metrics/

What's the latest orders put in place in Harris County? I'm not up to date on them.

Houston is one of the biggest if not the biggest hub for medical care. This is scary.
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10:00a, 6/24/20
Go away coronatroll.

No one here cares about your daily DOOM thread.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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2 weeks.
You do not have a soul. You are a soul that has a body.
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Romello
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:01a, 6/24/20
2 more weeks.
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10:01a, 6/24/20
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Why is this being posted here instead of the Covid board?
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:02a, 6/24/20
Toptierag2018 said:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/proposed-early-warning-monitoring-and-mitigation-metrics/

What's the latest orders put in place in Harris County? I'm not up to date on them.

Houston is one of the biggest if not the biggest hub for medical care. This is scary.

Staff can we get a fear porn flag?
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10:02a, 6/24/20
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LiberalAg made the prediction of 8 days back in March and that one was nails. I expect the same here.
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10:03a, 6/24/20
Sine poena nulla lex.
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10:03a, 6/24/20
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Didn't Houston build, then tear down, temporary space to house covid patients?


https://abc13.com/nrg-park-coronavirus-center-medical-shelter-covid-19-testing-patients-houston/6219473/
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10:03a, 6/24/20
I'd rather die than watch people be scared to live.
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10:04a, 6/24/20
funny....ooh its scary,
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10:04a, 6/24/20
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Greater Houston area is at 54% of surge capacity
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In reply to Ag with kids • 10:06a, 6/24/20
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Ag with kids said:
Greater Houston area is at 54% of surge capacity

I was told there would be no complex math here.
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10:06a, 6/24/20
There are other hospitals other than the ones in TCM. In fact, there are multiple hospital systems all over the Houston area. In fact, there are a shat load.
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:06a, 6/24/20
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Flagged for false info

And for being a fear mongering dumbass
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In reply to C@LAg • 10:08a, 6/24/20
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C@LAg said:
Forum 84 is that way.

now go away.
Yep, those guys have a collective stroke when anything remotely political is posted over there, so maybe keep this coronatroll crap over in the virus circle jerk.
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:11a, 6/24/20
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Toptierag2018 said:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/proposed-early-warning-monitoring-and-mitigation-metrics/

What's the latest orders put in place in Harris County? I'm not up to date on them.

Houston is one of the biggest if not the biggest hub for medical care. This is scary.



I am part of the problem.
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10:12a, 6/24/20
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Did I just travel back in time 90 days?
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:12a, 6/24/20
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Toptierag2018 said:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/proposed-early-warning-monitoring-and-mitigation-metrics/

What's the latest orders put in place in Harris County? I'm not up to date on them.

Houston is one of the biggest if not the biggest hub for medical care. This is scary.



I am part of the problem.
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Is this just the TMC capacity in the Med Center, or all remote locations around Houston and the suburbs?

Also, am I reading that right that the majority of ICU beds currently occupied are for non-cv19 patients?
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:13a, 6/24/20
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Toptierag2018 said:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/proposed-early-warning-monitoring-and-mitigation-metrics/

What's the latest orders put in place in Harris County? I'm not up to date on them.

Houston is one of the biggest if not the biggest hub for medical care. This is scary.



I am part of the problem.
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In reply to Ag with kids • 10:15a, 6/24/20
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Ag with kids said:
Greater Houston area is at 54% of surge capacity
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10:17a, 6/24/20
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Good example of what's happening that the Doomers won't say:

older middle age gentleman came in for surgery yesterday, was tested preop like all patients. Popped hot for COVID but had no symptoms at all. Surgery was considered critical so he had it done. This is an outpatient procedure but since he couldn't go to our post op unit because he was positive, he had to be admitted to a COVID unit to recover from surgery before going home.

He counts as a "COVID admission case" even though he only recovering for about 90 minutes before discharge began.

There are thousands of folks like this right now.

They're not in the ICU, they're not on vents, they don't stay in the hospital very long.

But they count as "COVID cases" that the fear mongers are screaming about even though it's a revolving door of these people, not stacking folks in the hallway because we have no capacity
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10:20a, 6/24/20
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Only a certain percentage of those cases are for COVID-19. Believe it or not, people go to the hospital for other things. We saw a huge downturn in patient census in April and May. Keep in mind people were having to rely on Teledocs and some didn't go to the doctor at all over the last two months when they were sick. Now, at least in my experience, the people who have been ignoring health problems or of been out of medicine for a few months are coming to the hospital and are pretty sick.

This is a rebound from everything, not just Covid.

Field hospitals may be necessary as a temporary measure, and that's fine with me. In my opinion we should keep everything open as it is and let people make up their own minds on what they want to do. I think seeing reports of people being treated in tents would be enough to keep at least the higher risk people at home and would give people a little bit of pause about crowding together.

Unfortunately a completely false narrative has been made about people not having significant symptoms or being able to spread the virus if they are younger. That may be true in some areas, but Texas has a massive obesity problem which means "younger" folks are going to be at higher risk of having complications or severe symptoms.
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10:21a, 6/24/20
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10:22a, 6/24/20
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Should not have participated in the protests if the pandemic was so bad. Oh well. People exercising their rights as citizens
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10:23a, 6/24/20
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A simple review of OP's posting history shows that this troll attempt is par for the course- liberal as as get out, full of fearmongering, pimping partial truths and flat out lies for the narrative.

Flagging and moving on.
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In reply to Toptierag2018 • 10:23a, 6/24/20
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Two weeks. Two weeks.

Bull*****

Go post on the corona board. You're obsessed.
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In reply to Not a Bot • 10:25a, 6/24/20
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Moxley said:
Only a certain percentage of those cases are for COVID-19. Believe it or not, people go to the hospital for other things. We saw a huge downturn in patient census in April and May. Keep in mind people were having to rely on Teledocs and some didn't go to the doctor at all over the last two months when they were sick. Now, at least in my experience, the people who have been ignoring health problems or of been out of medicine for a few months are coming to the hospital and are pretty sick.

This is a rebound from everything, not just Covid.

Field hospitals may be necessary as a temporary measure, and that's fine with me. In my opinion we should keep everything open as it is and let people make up their own minds on what they want to do. I think seeing reports of people being treated in tents would be enough to keep at least the higher risk people at home and would give people a little bit of pause about crowding together.

Unfortunately a completely false narrative has been made about people not having significant symptoms or being able to spread the virus if they are younger. That may be true in some areas, but Texas has a massive obesity problem which means "younger" folks are going to be at higher risk of having complications or severe symptoms.
Good post overall. We aren't really seeing young people die at this point though, you have to admit. There certainly are some hospitalized. But the average age of death in the US from covid is 81, while life expectancy is 77. I agree with you that the conclusion should be to stay open. We're not going to have a vaccine for a long time if ever, so you can't just shut the world down every 6 weeks.
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In reply to Maroon Dawn • 10:26a, 6/24/20
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We've also been seeing a lot of rapid turnover of our Covid floor, and that's great news. Anecdotally, early on the outbreak we were keeping people for a week or so even if they didn't need to be in ICU. Now with some better ideas of how to treat and people noting symptoms and being admitted earlier, we've been able to stave off a lot of people needing higher level of care.

I think blood thinners, plasma, remdesivir, and dexamethasone is going to significantly help reduce our mortality numbers. Supply of remdesivir is going to be an ongoing issue, but I think the tide really is turning in terms of our ability to treat people once they get to the hospital.

That does not mean the healthcare system can necessarily support a massive surge, though. The goal of flattening the curve was to just spread the infection is over time so we have a chance to treat as many people as possible.
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10:27a, 6/24/20
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Looks like the problem is the 64% of the beds are used by non COVID patients...Need to get those numbers down. What is causing that spike in Non-Covid use?
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Bill Bigfoot said:
Looks like the problem is the 64% of the beds are used by non COVID patients...Need to get those numbers down. What is causing that spike in Non-Covid use?


People just get sick.
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