Re: All things Chinese CoronaVirus
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:44 pm
According to the guy I was talking today, the hospital in Brooklyn where his Chief Medical Officer works.old salt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:32 pmWhich hospitals ran out of ventilators ? Which hospitals actually used the jury rigged solutions ?MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:31 pmI did seem to be an almost gleeful jump on Jared...though it really was a stupid way to say it, something he could have easily clarified in the ensuing period.old salt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:13 pm Here's the NR article Trump just mentioned on how the media blew the ventilator story,
...with their "gotcha idiocy". Can't wait for the apology to Jared.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/ ... ge-deftly/
But, nah, we really did run out of ventilators in some hospitals, with all sorts of jury rig 'solutions' that put both patients in jeopardy. and there really was rationing of who got to go on the ventilator and who was just assumed to be a lost cause. That really did happen in some NYC hospitals.
But it certainly could have been way, way worse. Social distancing worked, thank god.
PPE? Testing?
Bueller, Bueller?
Were there still spares in the NY stock pile ? Were the 2000 the Feds sent still in the NJ warehouse ?
Were there spares somewhere? Doesn't matter if they're not at the specific hospital where they're needed, when they're needed. You don't have 48 hours to react, to shift resources around.
Apparently splitting ventilators was widespread in NYC and environs. The Brooklyn situation did get to rationing who go put on and who didn't...I don't know how many hospitals went through that, but there are certainly reports of this having happened. Not for weeks and weeks, but they did get to that level.
Fortunately the curve flattened and the escalation eased off. But the medical staff is crushed.