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Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)

Is the Coronavirus going to cause a pandemic in the USA?

  • Yes

    Votes: 197 43.4%

  • No

    Votes: 127 28.0%

  • Too Early to guess

    Votes: 130 28.6%
  • Total voters
    454
  • Poll closed .
araomd said:
Nope. ER's around town are pretty dead. It's the ICUs that are full.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/...itals-emergency-care-heart-attack-stroke.html

The hospitals are eerily quiet, except for Covid-19.

I have heard this sentiment from fellow doctors across the United States and in many other countries. We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are missing from our hospitals.

Yale New Haven Hospital, where I work, has almost 300 people stricken with Covid-19, and the numbers keep rising — and yet we are not yet at capacity because of a marked decline in our usual types of patients. In more normal times, we never have so many empty beds.

Our hospital is usually so full that patients wait in gurneys along the walls of the emergency department for a bed to become available on the general wards or even in the intensive care unit. We send people home from the hospital as soon as possible so we can free up beds for those who are waiting. But the pandemic has caused a previously unimaginable shift in the demand for hospital services.
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So we are seeing how many people show up in the ER that don’t need to be there, I can get that. But how to legit heart attack cases or similar go down?
 
Glock 21 said:
My mother in law is currently in the ICU at Cartersville medical and they do not seem to be overrun but if you say that the metro is I won’t argue that as you would have more access to those stats than me. Still say death total estimates are over inflated even though they keep walking them back down claiming social distancing worked.

Sorry just bothers me my kids will be paying the bill over this chicken little event on top of all the other debt we have saddled them with.
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Should have been in there 3 to 4 weeks ago. Guarantee you would have seen exactly what impact it had on emergency rooms....
 
prestige30165 said:
Should have been in there 3 to 4 weeks ago. Guarantee you would have seen exactly what impact it had on emergency rooms....
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And yet the death toll is still minuscule compared to the average day. I know for a fact Cartersville medical never ran out of ICU beds though.
 
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