'Bleak Milestone':
More Than 100,000 Nursing Home Residents and Staff Killed by Pandemic
Forty percent of all Covid-19 deaths in the United States have occurred in long-term care facilities.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...illed-pandemic
Capitalists REJOICE! 100K dead is $Bs in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security payouts
But Capitalists who bought nursing homes to cut staff, support to the minimum, and suck out the cash flow must be sad.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/publ...otts-red-line/Some smaller hospitals are having a particularly difficult time managing the virus. Officials at a Rockwall County hospital — about 30 miles east of Dallas — said it was over capacity this week.
As of Wednesday, 75% of the hospital beds were filled with COVID-19 patients, the Rockwall hospital officials said.
The occupancy rate stood at 120%.“That means we currently have 72 patients needing one of our 60 beds,” wrote Cindy Perrin, president of Texas Health Hospital Rockwall, in a pre-Thanksgiving Day holiday letter to the community first reported by NBC5. “Hear our nurses and others who echo these sentiments all over the U.S. … I implore you to wear a mask, limit gatherings, wash your hands and behave responsibly.”
more shutdowns may be closer than you think
North Texas crossed a critical threshold in the number of hospital patients fighting COVID-19 that could trigger bar closings and lower occupancies at stores and restaurants if such cases don’t decrease within a week.
With more than 2,300 patients testing positive for the coronavirus in the 19-county hospital region, 15.04% of all beds were occupied by a person with COVID-19, according to state data.
For no reason
False. Shelter in place orders slow the spread of infection. Bending the curve, we used to call it. Also, sparing people unnecessary suffering, morbidity and death is an intrinisic good.
Why should 100,000-200,000 more Americans have to die when vaccines are right around the corner?
Lockdown proven ruin more lives cause more death
^gossip
Post the proof or fold away.
He's in Dubai, bro. He's way too busy. Just ignore the 24 hour straight posting streak.
No time to link sources, all day and night to troll other posters.He's in Dubai, bro. He's way too busy. Just ignore the 24 hour straight posting streak.
Excess deaths
The end
^Lied about traveling and going to raves after admitting he was in HS before the 3pt line
Creepy old man.
The end.
Raves
Raves all day. I lived
Raves in Brazil with Randy
Hospitals aren't over capacity. Just like march
exactly! talked with my cousin during thanksgiving and he said the same. oh yeah, he's also a nurse in the surgical department. he walks all over the hospital he's at and claims there's plenty of beds. has also said he's had to deal with a few covid patients but it's nothing like what's being reported at least not where he works.
mink related
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Universities in Massachusetts are a bright spot:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/...rolling-virus/The return of tens of thousands of college students to Massachusetts from all corners of the US and world, once feared as a super-spreading provocation, has instead proved to be one of the few successes of the pandemic, thanks to an extensive testing system that could serve as a model for the rest of society.
The immense undertaking by many New England colleges and universities included testing students when they first arrived on campus, requiring them to wear face masks and limit social gatherings, and, throughout the fall, making everyone on campus undergo a nose swab test for COVID-19 at least once a week — with results usually available within less than 24 hours.
With several thousand students on many of the state’s college campuses, higher education ins utions have conducted more than 2.8 million COVID tests since Aug. 15, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The result is an infection rate among college students that is significantly lower than among the broader population in the state.
“It is a pretty good miniature blueprint of what we should be doing as a society,” said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Frequent, rapid turnaround testing . . . that should absolutely be replicated at the societal scale.”
athletes are revenue sources, nurses are revenue sinks
who do you think will get vaccines first?
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