Alaska Gov. Dunleavy activates crisis standards of care for entire state

[SouthBayDem]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Alaska is activating crisis standards of care for the entire state, a drastic step that signals staff shortages and influx of COVID-19 patients could make it impossible for some hospitals to treat everyone.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy and top Alaska Department of Health and Social Services officials announced the decision Wednesday, as Alaska’s new single-day cases hit another record with the highly infectious delta variant continuing to drive surging infections and hospitalizations.

Alaska, with a health care system made vulnerable by isolation, this week hit the highest new COVID-19 case rate per capita in the country.

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services enabled crisis standards of care Wednesday through a new addendum to the state’s existing COVID-19 public health order, officials announced at a press briefing.

Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/09/22/alaska-activates-crisis-standards-of-care-for-entire-state-to-help-covid-overwhelmed-hospitals/

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The full headline was cut off due to character limits: Alaska Gov. Dunleavy activates crisis standards of care for entire state to help COVID-overwhelmed hospitals

[Delphinus]

1. I had

no idea Alaska was doing so badly!

[empedocles]

2. Triage?

[ShazamIam]

3. I wonder if, "crisis standard of care," triage kind of rationing? Ah, yes there is this in the

article.

Providers can prioritize patients based largely on their likelihood of survival or even deny treatment.

[C Moon]

4. I was listening to an Alaskan radio station, and caller after caller were QAnon anti-vax spewers. nt

[StClone]

12. Limbaugh show?

[obamanut2012]

13. Limbaugh is dead

[StClone]

15. Facetiously, I post.

[C Moon]

14. It was a local AK radio show. Not sure anything else about it.

I was listening to radio stations across the world that were on a map.

[SoCalNative]

5. But...but....

what about his TV ads, trying to get people to visit Alaska because it's so safe, since they supposedly have one of the highest vaccinated rates in the country?

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Sounds like ...."death panels". GOP now has its imagination come to life. Good luck with your base

[oasis]

9. That's exactly it. "Death Panels". nt

[winstars]

7. But whilst in California, things are going a wee bit differently I think...

https://deadline.com/2021/09/los-angeles-covid-hospitalizations-below-one-thousand-1234842298/

"According to state figures, there were 991 Covid-positive patients in Los Angeles county hospitals as of Wednesday, a drop from 1,018 on Tuesday. There were 305 patients in intensive care, down from 312 a day ago."

"Health officials see hospitalizations as a key indicator of progress or lack thereof. The number of patients hospitalized is considered a key indicator of how many will be placed in ICU and, ultimately, how many will die. That likelihood goes up when facilities are stretched thin. Last winter’s surge saw medical resources so stretched that there was concern infected patients could die from lack of care."

"The number of Covid-positive patients hospitalized in Los Angeles County has dropped for nine consecutive days and 22 of the past 23 days."




IMPEACH NEWSOM, HE KEPT US..............Alive!!!

[BigmanPigman]

8. I noticed that when I looked at Worldometers today.

Rachel Maddow is covering it on her show.

Check out the bar graphs...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/alaska/

[struggle4progress]

10. Alaska's COVID rate is now the highest in the nation

By Annie Berman
Updated: 1 day ago
Published: 1 day ago

... According to a New York Times tracker updated Tuesday, Alaska’s average rate of daily new infections over the last week is more than double the national average — and higher than any state. The state on Tuesday reported 861 cases after recording more than 2,000 new cases in three days over the weekend.

While case counts and case rates don’t account for how many of the people who test positive for COVID-19 are symptomatic or severely ill, rising case counts are often followed weeks later by a similar uptick in hospitalizations and deaths ...

Alaska’s hospitals continue to operate under what were once unimaginable circumstances. Last week, the state’s largest hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, announced it was shifting to crisis standards of care and rationing treatment due to a combination of staffing shortages and COVID-19 cases that accounted for about a third of the hospital’s patients ...

About 25% of all deaths in the state from May through August of this year have not yet been registered ...

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/09/21/alaskas-covid-19-case-rate-is-now-the-highest-in-the-nation-as-state-reports-6-deaths/

[lark]

11. Headline - Republican governor continues jeopardizing the lives of the people of his state.

They continue to put profits for businesses over the lives of the people and are content to let them die in droves for "freedumb".

[myohmy2]

16. I thought...

...only Socialism rationed healthcare...

...could have fooled me...