So my company just emailed us its Covid-19 directive

I'm still waiting for them to show us how "overwhelmed " the hospitals are. I remember the story of refrigerated trailers being used as makeshift morgues. If the hospitals are so overwhelmed and the death rate is so high, where are those temporary morgues now?

 

So everyone in New York must be vaccinated now.
Does this include truck drivers?

 

At the start there was definitely a problem with hospital capacity. The cold storage for bodies was a real thing, at least in my area. Hospitals aren’t in the business of housing more than a few dead bodies at any given time - 10 -12 would be a full morgue at many metropolitan hospitals. Our county morgue can’t house more than 12 bodies alone, so you might need to call for cold storage in the event of a mass casualty incident. So you do need overflow if you have an increase in mortality over a short period of time. I can tell you that on 9/11 reefers were deployed by the early afternoon, as it was thought at one point that there were 10,000 fatalities. The thing you don’t want to wait on ever is a cold place to store bodies as that very quickly becomes a problem.

The traditional approach to supporting patients with low blood oxygen didn’t work for the COVID patient and it took time to sort that out, which definitely added to the mortality.

 

Our local hospital had 11 sections, they've closed 7 of them since April 2020, laid off more than half the staff, then claim we are in a pandemic.
Wouldn't that mean you need more space, and more staff, not less.

 

Hard to get more funding if everything is running smoothly. It’s the same crap on this end.

 

You also need to factor in the fact that many hospitals in the states cancelled all elective procedures, so that volume decreased demand on hospitals.

Critical care patients require a much higher acuity of care. Nursing alone tends to be a 1:2 or 1:1 ratio (versus 1:6) add in a ventilator and that increases the staff demands. A 300 bed hospital would be at full capacity with 100 critical patients. A large teaching hospital rarely has more than 40 - 50 high acuity patients and those are 400 - 600 bed hospitals.

 

I'm still wondering where the regular Influenza run went?

 

Cue KMG's canned explanation in 1...2...3!

 

It went away in late 2019 when corona took over as the top thing to snivel about by those who aren't happy if they got nothing to complain about.

 

Canned?
Apologies if my critical thinking abilities have offended.
Sad really that you only know to go negative when your very myopic world view is challenged. Sort of thing an insecure bully does.
You are to be pitied.