Los Angeles Health Crisis Could Be
Repeated Across the U.S. in the Next
Few Months
PJ Media,
by
Rick Moran
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/16/2021 7:59:39 PM
It’s the worst nightmare for public health officials and it appears to be coming true. Los Angeles County is experiencing a health emergency as hospitals are literally filling up with COVID patients. Ambulances circle the city waiting for a spot to open up in emergency rooms. The ICU’s are at zero capacity. They are running out of oxygen. The emergency rooms are treating six patients at a time. There are people in hallways waiting for a bed. The COVID crisis is hitting hospitals across the U.S. although none appear to be in as bad a shape as LA — for now. But the dramatic rise in positive tests
All from the Open, Southern Border...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 1/16/2021 8:14:15 PM (No. 663490)
What were the ERs running at 18 months ago? About 90% full? The hospitals were swamped *before* wuhu. Now the Governors and Mayors have had a solid year of warnings, and how many more ER beds have they funded in preparation? Zero? They expected the hospitals to just build extra capacity out of the goodness of their hearts?
Brilliant preparation.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 1/16/2021 8:27:54 PM (No. 663498)
At my local hospital, the ICU has been running at 90%+ capacity for the past 20 years. There is always someone in post-op, or someone on the floor waiting to be transferred to ICU, or most commonly someone left in the Emergency Department. Nothing new.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/16/2021 8:54:17 PM (No. 663514)
This is being reported by only one person. Republished word for word at other sites but no news sites. The one source, Leo Berletsky, is a “researcher” affiliated with Northeastern University in Boston who happened to be in LA. His wiki self-description: Interests: Law and law enforcement, Public Health, Drug Policy, Infectious Disease, Criminal Justice Reform
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 1/16/2021 8:54:26 PM (No. 663516)
Our standard level of occupancy here in the ICU is about 80%.
Not impressed.
Our county lists "surge beds", which I understand are recovery room and operating rooms which have all the necessary monitoring equipment and can be repurposed as ICU beds. That nearly doubles the available ICU beds here.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 1/16/2021 8:58:41 PM (No. 663520)
The Dems forced huge numbers of hospitals nationwide to shut down by their evil Zerocare.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lazlototh 1/16/2021 9:00:11 PM (No. 663524)
In large cities, especially where it is expensive, it is not at all uncommon for people who come here - legally or illegally, from south of our border to end up with six guys in a one-bedroom apartment, with different people using the apartment while the others work, in a pretty masterful timeshifting. A guy who does work on our house - his own company, everything legal - came here from Ecuador and that's how he managed his first years in the Bronx as he worked, skimped & saved and sent money home. When people like this are all locked down together for prolonged periods they become superspreaders because of prolonged exposure and because someone has to go out for vital things. It's yet another of the unintended consequences of poorly conceived lockdowns.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/16/2021 9:01:33 PM (No. 663526)
The Los Angeles health crisis is being caused by the policies of Los Angeles officials and the state of Ca. It will not be repeated anywhere those policies are not adopted.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/16/2021 9:10:35 PM (No. 663537)
No problemo...Traitor Joe is about to let in another 20,000,000 so some of the current ones will need to die off anyway to make room.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/16/2021 9:23:37 PM (No. 663544)
Did you not watch the Ravens - Bills game? COVID is over in NY. The stands were full and there was not a person in sight on or off the field with a mask.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 1/16/2021 9:26:34 PM (No. 663545)
Hospitals are businesses, and hospital "beds" represent their inventory. An ideal inventory level to maintain for most businesses is just below capacity. Too much inventory, means you have wasted some money and too little means you may not meet demand. I suspect the 90% capacity represents the level of rooms, personnel, and beds a hospital administrator tries to maintain. If they are actually running out of those resources they have simply failed to plan properly or they were surprised by unexpected demand, as was the fear when the CCP virus suddenly hit the country. But now, a year on in the "emergency" one has to think a failure to meet demand is planned.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 1/16/2021 9:43:51 PM (No. 663552)
Thousands of Hondurans headed north as we speak. And many foolish mayors and governors.
To make matters worse, it is also flu season.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 1/16/2021 9:45:42 PM (No. 663553)
Thanksgiving 2017, my husband was in Providence Hospital in Everett Wa. recovering from a quadruple bypass operation. The nurses were telling us that there was not a single emergency bed available near the I-5 corridor from Canada to the Oregon border. This is nothing new.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/17/2021 6:26:35 AM (No. 663713)
Or not.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/17/2021 9:22:23 AM (No. 663836)
Hey LA I've got a cunning plan. If your ICU's overflow send the extras to nursing homes. SARCOFF
And the politicians wonder why the peasants "won't behave".
Note the subliminal in the last paragraph or two.
FTA ... Both Orange County and LA have been the site of multiple MAGA anti-mask rallies. And it’s not just those on the right who are flouting the rules. “A lot of people who refuse to mask or practice social distancing are not just the quote, unquote Trumpers,”
Implied ... But of course ALL the ignorant Trumpers do.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/17/2021 9:28:30 AM (No. 663843)
And the little boy cried "Wolf! Wolf!" but no one came.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 1/17/2021 10:30:36 AM (No. 663908)
What health crisis? Mental health?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/17/2021 1:24:12 PM (No. 664124)
Re #1 and #7. We have a surge here in my Georgia county and it's mainly Hispanic driven. Two or more families sharing a small home or apartment or groups of men chipping in and rooming together. They all want to keep working so they bring the Wuflu home to the others and fill up the ICUs. Wait until the Dems force open borders on the US and half of Asia, Africa, and South America push our population over 2 or 3 billion. We still have high unemployment at 330 million people. There will be no jobs and not enough money in the world to support benefits for the coming invasion.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/17/2021 2:14:16 PM (No. 664163)
Another possibility is that masks were never protective.
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