hospitals in the US laid of huge swathes of staff last year to avoid going out of business from the lowest capacity utilization in history. worse, they lost mostly the most profitable procedures" electives.
they have not re-hired and instead are beating their reduced staff to death.
it's an epic lose-lose but it's not covid nor are hospitals full from covid.
they are just stupidly understaffed and have used covid to classify beds as "unavailable" because they need to be held in reserve etc.
i would say that this perception seems quite odd as the current death rate in the US is down about 80% from the summer surge last year, all cause death is normal, and current delta stats in the US show a CFR closer to that of a cold than even a middling flu.
i would also point out that more of the deaths and hospitalizations in the UK (and Israel before they stopped reporting it) were among the vaccinated than the non.
(the US data on this is such crap i cannot figure out how to work with it meaningfully)
this is a classic example of cohort imbalance with the vaccinated being older and high risk. vaccines do seem to work, but efficacy is looking closer to 50% than 90.
that's going to mean that, given age and risk stratification, most hospitalizations are going to be among the vaccinated except possibly in a few places where vax rates among high risk are very low.
It's pretty strange throughout this entire thing, there has been virtually no talk about increasing our actual healthcare capacity. Remove the artificial caps on the number of new doctors. Allow specific overseas schools to skip part of residency when coming to America. Remove certificate of need laws that reduce supply. We should be talking about all of these things (which are going to need to happen if we try some sort of single payer anyway), but instead all the talk is about trying to not exceed the capacity that we currently have!
In Washington state we have LESS capacity compared to the start of the 'crisis' in what world is that an acceptable response? Luckily, as I have mentioned on other articles, our actual hospital utilization has been flat since we started keeping track in May 2020.
You are 100% correct that ICUs are terrible places even during the most normal of times.
Here in San Francisco we have a 85% vax rate. Yet over 200 hospital staff have recently been tested positive. Only 2 have been hospitalized. And in Iceland with a 90% vax rate (98% of most vulnerable ) there is a surge in"cases" and reimposed lockdown.
it's actually pretty simple:
hospitals in the US laid of huge swathes of staff last year to avoid going out of business from the lowest capacity utilization in history. worse, they lost mostly the most profitable procedures" electives.
they have not re-hired and instead are beating their reduced staff to death.
it's an epic lose-lose but it's not covid nor are hospitals full from covid.
they are just stupidly understaffed and have used covid to classify beds as "unavailable" because they need to be held in reserve etc.
it's a full blown industry own goal.
i would say that this perception seems quite odd as the current death rate in the US is down about 80% from the summer surge last year, all cause death is normal, and current delta stats in the US show a CFR closer to that of a cold than even a middling flu.
i would also point out that more of the deaths and hospitalizations in the UK (and Israel before they stopped reporting it) were among the vaccinated than the non.
(the US data on this is such crap i cannot figure out how to work with it meaningfully)
this is a classic example of cohort imbalance with the vaccinated being older and high risk. vaccines do seem to work, but efficacy is looking closer to 50% than 90.
that's going to mean that, given age and risk stratification, most hospitalizations are going to be among the vaccinated except possibly in a few places where vax rates among high risk are very low.
It's pretty strange throughout this entire thing, there has been virtually no talk about increasing our actual healthcare capacity. Remove the artificial caps on the number of new doctors. Allow specific overseas schools to skip part of residency when coming to America. Remove certificate of need laws that reduce supply. We should be talking about all of these things (which are going to need to happen if we try some sort of single payer anyway), but instead all the talk is about trying to not exceed the capacity that we currently have!
In Washington state we have LESS capacity compared to the start of the 'crisis' in what world is that an acceptable response? Luckily, as I have mentioned on other articles, our actual hospital utilization has been flat since we started keeping track in May 2020.
You are 100% correct that ICUs are terrible places even during the most normal of times.
when medics say angst against unvaxxed i wonder why they keep quiet about 30 or 40 common health misdeeds.
when the hospitals fire all the unvaxxed nurses.....
vax breakthrough cases are substantial. data from israel..... and frail breakthroughs will be "tragic".
the delta is seasonal like its 99.997% similar brethren. and uk cfr stayed low thru their delta experience.
You mean the dancing nurses of tik tok? Screw them. That's Team Halo from the Rock Foundation. Look it up.
The nursing shortage is important to the "hospitals are overwhelmed!!! comply or else!!!" narrative.
Facts. There is a nursing shortage in east bumfrackistan, and in shithole Nyc perhaps.
Here in San Francisco we have a 85% vax rate. Yet over 200 hospital staff have recently been tested positive. Only 2 have been hospitalized. And in Iceland with a 90% vax rate (98% of most vulnerable ) there is a surge in"cases" and reimposed lockdown.
Which hospital was it? IтАЩm sadly living in this area too. Florida is looking great these daysтАж
in personal choice about uncertain future and vaccines with no safety data and a vaers that makes hcq look like a wax pill......
any one who ever fixed an airplane with write up like we see on the vaxxes would be shot if they let it fly ......
it is risk and when someone plays morality on risk they are wrong!
choice is not only about woke.