Vaccines work.
PJYoung said:COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida have reached the highest level since August. At the current rate it will reach the all-time high within 7 days https://t.co/Vp1tDrN1su pic.twitter.com/RH2L2FVy5U
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) July 29, 2021
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The flood of COVID-19 patients newly admitted to Florida hospitals is now far worse than at any point during its winter surge.
Obviously deaths lag too (and I assume the last couple of days still need to be fully calculated), but it hasn't been an issue yetcone said:
problem being the hospitalization tail might takes weeks still to resolve
cases may collapse tomorrow but it's already too late
gougler08 said:Obviously deaths lag too (and I assume the last couple of days still need to be fully calculated), but it hasn't been an issue yetcone said:
problem being the hospitalization tail might takes weeks still to resolve
cases may collapse tomorrow but it's already too late
Looks like deaths peak 2-3 weeks after cases, so not sure that we have the same steep slope as the last couple times, but may get higher than we'd all likePJYoung said:gougler08 said:Obviously deaths lag too (and I assume the last couple of days still need to be fully calculated), but it hasn't been an issue yetcone said:
problem being the hospitalization tail might takes weeks still to resolve
cases may collapse tomorrow but it's already too late
Yeah looking at that I'm afraid they might rival the previous peaks.
I didn't expect that because this time the population is so much younger.
80sGeorge said:
Hospital population isn't broken down vax vs not vaxed
There's this notion that it's only a matter of time before Delta explodes in other parts of the US as much as it has in the South but I don't see why that's obviously true. Case growth has slowed down in all four regions as compared with 2/3 weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/5r9pejUfYi
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 17, 2021
Why is there never any reports/statistics of co-morbidities in ICU cases?80sGeorge said:
Oh I hear ya. Just hoping their situation is better than previous.
Found this info from Naples Hospitals. Hopefully the 16% vaxed results in better outcomes overall.
Between both of NCH's hospitals:
The COVID positivity rate for the last 7 days for Collier County is 19.2%.
The COVID positivity rate for the last 7 days at NCH is 21.1%.
NCH is currently caring for a total of 512 patients between our two hospitals.
Of that number, we are caring for 166 patients have tested positive for COVID.
Of that number, 140 patients, or approximately 84%, are unvaccinated.
Of that number, 40 patients are in the ICU.
Of that number, 24 patients are on vents.
Patient ages range from 15-98 with a median age of 60.
There are 3 pediatric patients
NCH has 31 employees who tested positive for COVID and/or isolated due to family or community related exposure. Between both of NCH's hospitals:
The COVID positivity rate for the last 7 days for Collier County is 19.2%.
The COVID positivity rate for the last 7 days at NCH is 21.1%.
NCH is currently caring for a total of 512 patients between our two hospitals.
Of that number, we are caring for 166 patients have tested positive for COVID.
Of that number, 140 patients, or approximately 84%, are unvaccinated.
Of that number, 40 patients are in the ICU.
Of that number, 24 patients are on vents.
Patient ages range from 15-98 with a median age of 60.
There are 3 pediatric patients
NCH has 31 employees who tested positive for COVID and/or isolated due to family or community related exposure.
Fitch said:
Just spit balling, but probably a combination of better therapeutics and higher vaccination rates among the (previously) higher fatality-prone age cohorts. Even with break through infections vaccinations remain incredibly resilient in preventing serious disease courses.
That and deaths are a trailing metric. If you have one person that takes a test and it comes back positive, then that person eventually becomes a fatality statistic, it takes about 5 weeks(ish) for that whole process to unfurl. The fatality charts are retroactively updated so the curve at the tail end is always lower than the "actual" total... That said, I'm hopeful the fatalities curves will be a fraction of what they were previously even though the peak of this wave appears to be trending as high or higher than prior ones.
Joe Boudain said:Fitch said:
Just spit balling, but probably a combination of better therapeutics and higher vaccination rates among the (previously) higher fatality-prone age cohorts. Even with break through infections vaccinations remain incredibly resilient in preventing serious disease courses.
That and deaths are a trailing metric. If you have one person that takes a test and it comes back positive, then that person eventually becomes a fatality statistic, it takes about 5 weeks(ish) for that whole process to unfurl. The fatality charts are retroactively updated so the curve at the tail end is always lower than the "actual" total... That said, I'm hopeful the fatalities curves will be a fraction of what they were previously even though the peak of this wave appears to be trending as high or higher than prior ones.
Is there any reason to think that they're keeping people in the hospital now that they would have sent home a year or more ago? I remember early on docs saying that if they could sat over 92% on room oxygen, they'd write them a scrip for o2 and send them on, I wonder if they're still doing that.
It would just seem that with such a large portion of the population vaccinated or with antibodies, there wouldn't be that much of a population to need hospitalization even if they caught it.
Florida becomes first US state where the daily deaths in current wave have exceeded previous waves. pic.twitter.com/xK9UK2don8
— Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK) August 22, 2021
PJYoung said:Florida becomes first US state where the daily deaths in current wave have exceeded previous waves. pic.twitter.com/xK9UK2don8
— Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK) August 22, 2021
Seems the peak is in for FL hospitalizations, but it did get way worse than I expectedPJYoung said:
gougler08 said:Seems the peak is in for FL hospitalizations, but it did get way worse than I expectedPJYoung said:
I was curious about the ICU numbers. Using data fromAggieFactor said:
Shouldn't be too surprising. This chart simply states that there are more people in the hospital with COVID than there were during the other peaks. If there are more cases in the general population because of the transmissibility, than it should lead one to believe the patient population in the hospital is also seeing more cases regardless if they are actually in the hospital for COVID. Since the hospitalized population is trending younger, I would like to see the ICU bed peak compared to the other two waves.
AggieFactor said:
Shouldn't be too surprising. This chart simply states that there are more people in the hospital with COVID than there were during the other peaks. If there are more cases in the general population because of the transmissibility, than it should lead one to believe the patient population in the hospital is also seeing more cases regardless if they are actually in the hospital for COVID. Since the hospitalized population is trending younger, I would like to see the ICU bed peak compared to the other two waves.