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(36,748 posts)Abbott versus Gov Cuomo.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Squinch
(51,083 posts)field hospital set up in a local shopping center and we could handle the overflow. I feel certain Texas has made no such arrangements.
LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)It's at the coliseum.
It's part of the emergency response. It isn't set up yet, because we aren't at that level, but emergency management is on top of it.
Squinch
(51,083 posts)outside of NYC, and we were glad we had it when things ramped up.
LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)I think some of the small towns will send patients here. Some of our rural areas just don't have hospitals. It seems any town under 30,000 doesn't seem to have a hospital, but many of those areas are ranch country and they are used to driving 100 miles for whatever. I have a friend who lives in a small town in South Texas, he would drive to college 75 miles one way. No biggy for him, it was a way of life.
Rural Texas is much less densely populated than rural NY.
rkleinberger
(155 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Self loathing? A collective death wish? Stockholm Syndrome?
All three?
Quixote1818
(29,018 posts)crickets
(25,990 posts)It is interesting to see that they have figured out that mechanical oxygenation of the blood is much less damaging than the ventilators. I do feel for all of those poor babies and hope they manage to make it through hospitalization without coming down with COVID.
It was difficult to sit through all of that, but the level of information imparted in this vid piece was excellent. Biggest takeaway, if only people will listen: put on a mask, and if you can stay home, do it.
"If you want to live to see August 1, stay home on July 4."
LeftInTX
(25,762 posts)Did I hear this correctly?
Or are 30% of the moms in labor that are diagnosed asymptomatic?
I kinda think 30% is the diagnosis rate, maybe because I'm hearing it from a nurse. (Kinda like the tox screens we would give the moms...always reported positive test rates, whether the mom showed evidence of substance abuse or not)
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)but thanks to my military retirement, I don't have to go back to work right away and can stay hidden away from the world.
But 20 percent positive is insane.
kairos12
(12,896 posts)totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)do not think that this will end well for the poor people of Texas.
mnmoderatedem
(3,734 posts)I'm sure that is just because of the increased testing
Houston's sort of the center of the outbreak in TX. TMC is the health-care elephant in Houston. (And Texas, for that matter.)
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/overview-of-tmc-icu-bed-capacity-and-occupancy/
LisaL
(44,982 posts)You gotta ask why these patients are going to other cities, if TMC claims to have room?
LisaL
(44,982 posts)"The surge in coronavirus cases has gotten so bad in Houston that two of the city's hospitals have begun transporting patients to other cities in Texas."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/houston-hospitals-transferring-covid-patients-running-icu-beds/story?id=71552472
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)I am hoping MI will join it. If you are from these affected states, please do not come to MI.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Have you not heard?