On a recent visit the staff had already marked out the parking lot — painting green rectangles to mark the places where tents are starting to be set up to screen arriving patients for COVID-19.opens the door to a room crammed with supplies. It's called the"ready room" he explains. It's where they keep equipment to handle all kinds of crises — from Ebola to a HAZMAT incident to a mass casualty situation.
"Instead of everybody going into the emergency department, we would try and siphon off some of those patients," DeAtley says.Washington Hospital center's efforts highlight the question medical facilities across the U.S. now confront: Are they ready for what's coming? Craig DeAtley directs Emergency Management at MedStar. One goal in creating more room to handle an expected surge of COVID-19 patients, he says, is to move the assessment of some walk-in ER patients to stations in this room — as well as to stations in large tents being set up in parking lot.Other places in the world — where the coronavirus spread seems to be just ahead of the U.S. — like Italy — have seenAnd even in the U.S.
Toner estimates that if the U.S. sees the same rate of spread, every hospital in the nation would have to take drastic steps to meet the need."No hospital will be able to function as normal," says Toner."It's a question of whether they can adequately adjust the way they do things in order to handle the tsunami of patients that are coming their way."
Putin: „It all worked out.“
Story not getting out. Country size doesn’t matter. American death count is on sponsored by GOP n Trump inaction. Admitted today! Fire pandemic response team in 2018 2 “save money” then drops trou n shits out 1.5 trill for Wall Street? What about us
Good to know our healthcare system doesn’t plan for this
Is anyone looking into the experiment the manufacturer Laser Supergenerics is doing with an antiviral drug to combat the Coronavirus? Favipiravir is an antiviral compound, tested on some Chinese patients and it looks promising....please!
CitizenJane1889 It’s so infuriating that we had time to prepare for this and our government did literally nothing. We could see the future and they did nothing.
According to the CDC, 61,000 deaths were linked to the generic aka “no name flu” during 2017-2018 flu season in the US. Weren’t the hospitals ready then?
And whose going to pay. Insurance companies barely cover a physical now. What’s two weeks in ICU going to run? Ever see a NICU bill to a young family with a premie
They need to come the ones we have. You know, like shakey's pizza.
Could is the operative word. JoeSilverman7 has thread on this. Stop trying to freak everyone out.
If you don't have enough ICU capacity, the deaths will skyrocket . I live in Northern Italy, I should know. Just look at the death rates here in the last 24, 48, 72. ICU in Lombardia is maxed out. Triage means death. learn from it.
Hospitals today are run for profit, not public health. How many hospitals have day care units for staff?
Lies
...if everyone in the city magically needed hospitalization.: Stop being alarmist to make the president look bad. You're going to get people killed.
I have no doubt many people will avoid treatment either due to lack of resources or because they simply can't afford it.
army time !!
No
This is funny. If the virus doesn’t kill us, the hospital bill will 🇺🇸 Good times. I am still waiting to be great again
Aw shite we are first on this list even behind China and their 1.3 billion people 😳
Use the empty arenas around the country for makeshift hospitals/triage. Plenty of space, access to water, emergency equipment/power...
Isn’t this due to declining population in those countries? If you have a certain number of hospital beds per person and then the population declines then you would have more per person. No?
Let's not forget that the current healthcare system discourages inpatient stays and procedures. One of my clients just closed a 200 bed hospital due to heavy financial losses. Patient censuses for inpatient stays have been in decline for over 20 years. A good thing, unless....
On top of this
Hospitals are about the bottomline. There wouldn't be extra beds.
BYOB (Bring Your Own Bed) BYOV (Bring Your Own Ventilator)
The news is full of all these 'how many hospital beds/ventilators do we have?' stories now, but the time we needed them was a month or two ago WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT WAS UTTERLY FAILING TO PREPARE FOR OR DEFEND AGAINST THE COVID-CRISIS. Thanks for nothing.
No. There aren't enough beds because hospitals like to be near capacity. Add in a pandemic, voila....
Don’t worry we have more jail cells!!!
The USA is all about capitalist efficiency as opposed to social resiliency. We are subject to cost cutting policies imposed by our financial overlords.
So glad I am living in Germany and not at the mercy of American healthcare system
Also, beds that are available are not always allowed to be filled. Hospitals routinely turn patients away bc they don't have the staff. So it doesn't matter how many beds we have if we can't fill them.
Fact is true, Story is false. Check stats critical care units for a different story.
Which country has the most immigrants ?
Now do jaws of life or MRIs
Doesn’t the UK have a nationalized healthcare system, more so than most of Europe where regulated (mandatory) public/private insurance systems are the norm?
Stupid question when obviously no one was 'ready' for this.
This does not include the EM dept of Defence portable hospitals and military staff that operates them. Ole panic spreading NPR.
JULY OR AUGUST? Warmer weather leads to more BACTERIAL GROWTH. The presence of more bacteria increases the likelihood that some of them will be carried into HOSPITALS by STAFF or VISITORS.
But we have lots of prisons.
tbh japanese beds are half-sized
Sit tight... more pple during the swine flu outbreak were hospitalized and we did just fine!
Since we have the best healthcare system in the World, we don’t need the extra beds. 🤦♀️
Yes, but ours are THE MOST EXPENSIVE hospital beds in the world
Hmmmm... so we need more missiles if I'm reading this right🤔
Now do prison cells
Nothing to worry about here. We can always use hotel beds. Hasn’t Mar-a-lago already been transformed into a COVID treatment center based on the number of cases? trumpvirus MaralagoVirus
Sick people don’t pay taxes.
This may be fact but is useless information and stirs unnecessary concern for general public. Use some discretion when reporting
What is called a hospital bed in the US and U.K. has a higher standard to qualify. In Brazil, a blanked on the floor of a hospital hallway qualified until a few years ago.
Hospitals are where people go to die. Wake up! Dr.SHIVA LIVE: Time for Truth on Coronavirus via YouTube
Hard to imagine a worse time to have Trump as President. Good luck America, take care of each other.
No!
How is this possible in the most developed nation in the world?
KR around 12 too
Is there a requirement to put a patient in a bed? Can they also use recliners for the least ill patients?
Eat it UK! We’re number 6! We’re number 6!
In the US, an empty bed is losing money. A hotel and hospital should not have the same business model: keep the beds full For-profit healthcare is the problem.
No, we're f*cked.
yeah but we're kicking everyone's ass when it comes to prison bed count.
No.
With this administration.
They could be higher
Fear mongering much
Why don't you give news? The answer is no. If we do not isolate, all of us, hospitals will turn into morgues
this is what bothers me... sudden onset throat hurts/burns neck is sore chest/breathing hurts headACHES mild fever dizziness day 13 after being exposed to traveller SEA to ATL (yes! a mofo airplane full of people!) everybody in my house feels this DeKalbNewsNow ajc CDCgov
Staffing standards common to most hospitals dictate that they only hire/retain exactly enough staff to *barely* handle whatever the average patient capacity of the most recent financial quarter. Not enough to manage 100% capacity. Generally about 70%.
If we don’t get the support and supplies we need, the medical community could become one of the biggest transmitters of this virus. They aren’t testing anyone. Not even us. We can’t stay home.
NPR is having great coverage of this. Thank you.
malbruja69 Of course not! Not for ordinary spikes and certainly not for large scale disaster management. The reason the numbers are so high in Italy is that the response has hit capacity and the system is overwhelmed.
The hospital my daughter works at is OUT of N95 masks, and continues to do procedures without proper protection because they have to take care of patients. The Pentagon is supposedly releasing masks but they’re a day late and a dollar short.
Why don't we ask ourselves that question? The US has a million bed & 70% occupied at any given time. Do we have the resources? No. Do we need to prepare to set up make-shift triage centers? Yes. Do we need to do this now? Yes.
Unfortunately they are not ready. If Trump hadn't fired the federal govt's pandemic response team we might have a better chance. If Trump hadn't denied & called it a hoax, etc. WhereAreTheCovid19Tests
the answer as Cuomo pointed out this morning is obvious. privatized medicine means capacity is optimized for profit and not for rare spikes in demand. we need to mobilize Army Corp of Engineers to expand capacity
Are caucasians black?
They are not, but let’s get mobilizing if they can did it in China and South Korea then USA can
We are already failing horribly. Front line healthcare providers like me are being forced to adopt lower standards of protection because of shortages. It is unacceptable and an insult to the people actually doing the hard work. GetMePPE
Nooooooah!
We need more hospital beds. The US has less hospital beds than Italy whose healthcare system is being slammed by COVID19. When are the facilities being built? SecAzar CDCDirector Surgeon_General SpeakerPelosi tedlieu SenSchumer HouseDemocrats HouseScience
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