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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Fewer than two-dozen hospital beds remained open in Franklin County on Thursday( ColumbusOhio 9/16)
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https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/09/16/hospital-leaders-ers-urgent-cares-overrun-covid-patients/8349235002/
snip--"Fewer than two-dozen hospital beds remained open in Franklin County on Thursday, forcing hospital leaders to again sound the alarm on surging COVID-19 infections."
snip--"In Franklin County alone, just 10 of 562 ICU beds were available as of Thursday morning and 11 of the county's 2,276 general medical or surgical beds were open, said Jeff Klingler, president and CEO of the Central Ohio Hospital Council."
snip--"At least 3,580 Ohioans were hospitalized with the virus as of Thursday, with thousands being diagnosed with the disease each day. On Thursday, 8,349 new cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to the Ohio Department of Health."
snip--"OhioHealth's Doctors Hospital ICU was at 99% capacity while Riverside Methodist Hospital's ICU was 98% full and Grant Medical Center was 93% full as of the week of Sept. 3. Ohio State Wexner Medical Center was 89.9% full, data shows."
more at article.
fuck
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)They'd better reserve beds for others.
Botany
(70,291 posts)We need to set up wall tent cities for these people and give a cot, a mattress, a pillow,
food & water, all the pain killers they want and do not let them leave the tent city until
they are dead or have gotten over it and they have the antibodies that will help stop the
virus.
i am so over this shit.
irisblue
(32,829 posts)I would just give them two blankets.
One to sleep on on the ground, and one to cover with.
Botany
(70,291 posts)... can take the whole thing as one unit and then burn or bury it. If 50,000 of these idiots want to
die in central OH let 'em.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Yeah.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Good God in Butter do they think if they yell enough, pray to their Jesus-Baby enough, blame
"the lab in China" enough, and or blame the lib-tards enough the virus will give a shit?
BTW the idea that Ohio State is not demanding to see vaccination cards or apps before going into
the stadium for a football game is insane.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)People will have to die at home.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)tens of thousands of people. And where are those people going to end up if they get infected? Not in ICU, since there are no beds left. Lets put some beds into the stadium and put them there!
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Plenty space.
irisblue
(32,829 posts)in the Ohio State stadium.
College football is tbe civic religion of this city and area.
What could go wrong?
🤦♀️
LisaL
(44,962 posts)ICU beds to put them in. Masks are not required "outside." However people are so close to each other and they are screaming.
I really question the wisdom of having full stadiums for sports games when hospitals are full.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)No out of staters in MI hospitals!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)As long as there are nearby states run by Democrats, there should be ample ICU space for their overflow cases. That's just the way it works in our little corner of Heaven otherwise known as the United States.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)ER boarding patients (waiting on a bed) for 2 days.