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Hospital admissions spike 50% across the US over the last month with 60,000 treated: Ohio calls in the National Guard to help and Nebraska warns of rationing care as Omicron spreads
2021-12-19
Posted by:Skidmark

#24  Thirteenmonths after the initial FDA EUA for these treatments, some hospitals and local media are finally getting serious about doing what can be done. This news article actually included a toll free phone number for patients wishing to contact Wayne Health for treatment.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-12-19 12:21


I took the Monoclonal treatment last month and it worked for me. I caught a "breakthrough" case of Covid after being vaccinated earlier in the year. The Covid was going for my lungs when I was treated and it stopped advancement of the virus. I improved every day after treatment. I'm a fan.
Posted by: Tennessee   2021-12-19 21:11  

#23  There's a page on the Murphy's Law Calendar that says: "As soon as you say something - If it's good, it goes away and if it's bad, it happens."

Comment accordingly...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 17:58  

#22  There is a statistical expert

Grom's publishing on Twitter?
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-19 17:54  

#21  Liberal tears over Manchin and Sinema acting like adults will be the story for a while now. COVID be back real soon (in the news cycle anyway...)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 17:04  

#20  Maff be rayciss, 'specially if it actually says COVID-claus ain't real. Pope Fauxi I not happy. You will all suffer!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 17:02  

#19  There is a statistical expert (more then 7 statistics books published) who has been questioning all the results on Twitter. The woke have been going nuts at what he posts and truly don’t understand his proofs of cooked data! The woke really need to learn basic math or shut up!
Posted by: 3dc   2021-12-19 16:55  

#18  2022 midterms are looming, but seems a tad early but maybe its the start of w campaign to justify the abuse’s of the public trust to date.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2021-12-19 14:20  

#17  If I'm the medical director in a hospital and I'm convinced ivermectin works, I call down to the coding department and say "I need a subcode for bedpan changes. BP-I202129.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 12:24  

#16  Detroit area hospitals showing innovative responses to demand for monoclonal antibody infusions amid spike in cases

The sick make their way to a Detroit parking lot, unroll the car window, and push up their sleeves for infusions of a medical cocktail to help them recover from a modern scourge, COVID-19.
Monoclonal antibodies are pumped into their arms intravenously at Wayne Health's drive-through clinic on Mack Avenue, staged outdoors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus..."COVID testing and vaccinations remain our pillar, but we're also very heavily engaged in monoclonal antibody infusions, which are a great way to prevent people who do contract COVID — particularly high-risk individuals — from getting sick to the point where they require hospitalization or at risk for dying,"

said Dr. Phillip Levy, professor of emergency medicine at Wayne State University and chief innovation officer for Wayne Health.

Dr. Bruce Muma, president and CEO of the Henry Ford Health System Physician Network, is feeling a similar pinch.

"One of our infusion centers expanded their hours to 3:30 in the morning ... because there was a subset of ER nurses who were so concerned about what they were seeing in the ER that they wanted to start doing something to prevent patients from needing to be in the hospital. So they are ... coming in four hours early for this shift."

Detroit-based Henry Ford got about 2,000 requests for treatment in the last week, but was able to administer about 725 infusions.

"By hook or by crook, we're expanding our capacity every week," Muma said.


Thirteen months after the initial FDA EUA for these treatments, some hospitals and local media are finally getting serious about doing what can be done. This news article actually included a toll free phone number for patients wishing to contact Wayne Health for treatment.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-12-19 12:21  

#15  #13, it's deeply ironic and funny in a schadenfreude way that the new flat earthers will be covidians insisting on the end of the world four times a year forever.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 11:33  

#14  Wake me up when the dead start walking

Does Voting count? Because they are voting - sometimes several times.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-12-19 11:29  

#13  The simple, blindingly obvious fact is that COVID is now rapidly becoming endemic: seasonal flu.

Nothing terrifies our Moronic Masters more than the prospect of tearing this as just a nasty flu bug.

Read through this absurd gobbledygook interview, published yesterday, of one Covidian by another lefty Covidian in NYMag to see how these assholes squirm and wriggle to deny the obvious.

They mangle the numbers repeatedly and explore every way possible to spin them, speculating endlessly, and then finally arrive at the only intelligent conclusion. Endemicity is here.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-19 11:24  

#12  ^never told who got Polio from the vaccine. Today they play word games. They call Polio AMS and Guillain-Barre.
Posted by: Dale   2021-12-19 11:01  

#11  My last five years in PeeAve I got acute bronchitis each spring. Haven't had it since I moved to Floida. I blame rayciss and the satanic DeSantis.

/snark
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 10:55  

#10  When i was in 1st grade (1943) i and most kids i knew caught 'whooping cough' and then 'bronchitis'. we survived. although i failed 1st grade. Now, polio was a different matter and we were cheered and took the polio vaccine.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-12-19 10:51  

#9  We Are Informed By Mendacious Morons
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-19 10:44  

#8  Wake me up when the dead start walking
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-12-19 10:22  

#7  /\ "Now for the rest of the story."
Your comment is amazingly intuitive (once the media crisis scales have fallen away). Genuinely appreciated Walker.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-12-19 09:29  

#6  Optional surgery and procedures have not been cancelled in Ohio. The hospitals are mostly full of people who are sick from vaccine accidents or are finally having procedures that they had put off previously. This does not speak to the staffing shortage of the resigned and fired. 100% capacity of some hospitals today is 85-90% precovid capacity.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2021-12-19 09:22  

#5  The sky is falling. I have seen a dramatic increase in mental heath issues. Germophobia, Zombie like behaviors. Walking about all night soaking wet from nights rain. Laying in roads. Walking into roads oblivious to traffic. Limited memory recall. Curiously nonviolent. So they call in National guard. Big deal. Medically trained?. Vaccinated?. Playing nursemaids changing adult diapers. They have created one crisis after another. This is a media government manufactured crisis. Just do as many others are now doing, ignore them. Life goes on for many of us that are immune to modern day insanity. I must say my video is a bit long but Daniel Defoe; a favorite of mine, influenced H. G. Wells. A man of the times who wrote of the people of the times. H. G. Wells wrote of this, Things to come.Plaque years.
Posted by: Dale   2021-12-19 08:04  

#4  
Why is it South African reports only a few Hospitalizations and the US with likely 100% better living conditions, reports 10,000 times more?

Eg. "Hospital admissions spike 50%"
Total Staffed Beds in All U.S. Hospitals
919,559. Source so 60,000 of 919,559 = roughly 6.5% of the available hospital beds are occupied.

WOW!! what are we going to do with the other 93.5% or 859,787 beds?

Is the Media playing with the headlines for $$$$ and work to create a 2022 mid-term MAIL-IN voter panic process again?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-12-19 07:56  

#3  and what about Sweden?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-12-19 07:56  

#2  Scary. Let's look at some numbers.

"Serious/Critical" this morning is 15,725 versus 11,553 a month ago. This morning's COVID load is 136% of a month ago. Almost 50% more, using Media Math.

This morning's load is 60% of the serious/critical number on Labor Day - the peak of 'the fourth wave'. {Worldometers data, my tabulation}
Posted by: Bobby   2021-12-19 07:55  

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Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-19 03:23  

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