I compiled date death occurred vs date reported for city of houston (based on @HoustonHealth tweets). Out of 90 deaths reported on that twitter account in June mean reporting delay is 25.5 days, median delay is 21 days.
EDIT: Rephrasing, it's odd to have the same charts/graphs for weeks and then completely change things up right in the middle of this.ETFan said:plain_o_llama said:
TMC added a statement:
Yesterday, the TMC posted an incomplete slide deck in order to allow time to fully develop a number of new slides. The new slides as well as a number of updated slides that were absent yesterday will be released later today. Collectively, they will provide a more comprehensive and accurate description of the current status.
Aha, I missed that, thank you.
Fitch said:
They apparently didn't appreciate every local news and national news agency saying the ICU was 100% full a few days ago. The new charts have been pretty thoroughly sanitized, which probably is for the best.
ETFan said:
That's all well and good if it had been a steady 90% capacity for a few weeks. It rose quickly due to a steady, slightly alarming increase of covid patients.
Their own metrics went in to the red and warning areas. So they changed the metrics this weekend.
That cant really be argued. They had the warning criteria up for weeks and once they hit all the warnings they changed the criteria.
Well, it had been steady at in the upper 80s/90% range. Slight up tick. The biggest change was COVID going from 15-30% over 2 weeks or so. But overall ICU occupancy didn't go up that drastically.ETFan said:
That's all well and good if it had been a steady 90% capacity for a few weeks. It rose quickly due to a steady, slightly alarming increase of covid patients.
Their own metrics went in to the red and warning areas. So they changed the metrics this weekend.
That cant really be argued. They had the warning criteria up for weeks and once they hit all the warnings they changed the criteria.
ETFan said:
That's all well and good if it had been a steady 90% capacity for a few weeks. It rose quickly due to a steady, slightly alarming increase of covid patients.
Their own metrics went in to the red and warning areas. So they changed the metrics this weekend.
That cant really be argued. They had the warning criteria up for weeks and once they hit all the warnings they changed the criteria.
From one comprehensive study I found that followed 97 different ICUs for 3 years, the average daily ICU bed occupancy ranged from 57% to 82% across the US.Lester Freamon said:
Yes, exactly. The media started running with the capacity numbers like it was about to strike midnight on the doomsday clock when, in reality, it is totally normal for an ICU to run above 90%.
Think of it this way - ICU's are expensive to maintain. Hospitals are (mostly) for profit entities. If you were investing, say in rental properties for example, you wouldn't set out to buy properties that would be perennially 50% leased. Sensationalist media and low info populace made it a big deal.
I was commenting on how they changed the way they are reporting ICU usage. There was a sharp increase in COVID patients that bumped capacity up to 100% of base. I'm well aware that non-COVID patients make up the majority of ICU usage currently.oglaw said:ETFan said:
That's all well and good if it had been a steady 90% capacity for a few weeks. It rose quickly due to a steady, slightly alarming increase of covid patients.
Their own metrics went in to the red and warning areas. So they changed the metrics this weekend.
That cant really be argued. They had the warning criteria up for weeks and once they hit all the warnings they changed the criteria.
Yes, covid admittance has risen. However, you seem to be ignoring the fact that hospitals have been working on catching up on their elective procedures that they previously had to put on hold.
Now the media is just going to run the other direction with this. Maybe they shouldn't have used that wording, coloring, metrics, etc for weeks.eidetic78 said:
I'm glad the TMC redesigned their bed occupancy visuals. The media sees the color red and words like "unsustainable" and it's full on apocalyptic headlines.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.ETFan said:Now the media is just going to run the other direction with this. Maybe they shouldn't have used that wording, coloring, metrics, etc for weeks.eidetic78 said:
I'm glad the TMC redesigned their bed occupancy visuals. The media sees the color red and words like "unsustainable" and it's full on apocalyptic headlines.
PJYoung said:
Up to 9% positive of tests administered now. We were at 3% on June 4th.
3 more died here yesterday including a man in his 30s.
planoaggie123 said:
Yes. All had underlying condiitions. He didnt mention that.
planoaggie123 said:
Without me going into excel seems to be skewing towards that younger crowd but sounds like the younger crowd there tends to be a little less healthy...interesting.
What's interesting about this chart is you can see the amount of COVID patients in the ICU beds are definitely increasing at a faster rate than the overall blue line of total ICU bed occupancy. Tells me the hospitals are managing their bed usage. This is a good sign to us all that the hospitals learned from the time we bought them from the initial "flatten the curve" time. Very encouraging.CowtownAg06 said:
Here is ICU usage over time for all of SE Texas. You can filter by county but Harris is the majority of this. Lots of other good data on that site.
Or spikes across the border are flooding over into the border states and counties.amercer said:
Los Angeles is about 50% Latino.
Something like 10% of the total US Latino population lives there.
So that's probably a lot of it.
And were doing so before the Gov ordered a new ban on non-essential surgeries.Beat40 said:What's interesting about this chart is you can see the amount of COVID patients in the ICU beds are definitely increasing at a faster rate than the overall blue line of total ICU bed occupancy. Tells me the hospitals are managing their bed usage. This is a good sign to us all that the hospitals learned from the time we bought them from the initial "flatten the curve" time. Very encouraging.CowtownAg06 said:
Here is ICU usage over time for all of SE Texas. You can filter by county but Harris is the majority of this. Lots of other good data on that site.
Hopefully they can still manage with the recent surge.
planoaggie123 said:
Also known as double...or exponential...