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Email I just got from OHSU...





OHSU'S Statement:

https://news.ohsu.edu/2021/08/10/prepared-statement-on-august-10-covid-forecast

 

Greene waves off concerns of hospital overcrowding: 'We can't live forever'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday waved off concerns over hospitals exceeding capacity due to COVID-19, saying “we can’t live forever.”

During an interview with right-wing network “Real America’s Voice,” Greene claimed that the media and public health officials are over-hyping the number of people that have been hospitalized with COVID-19.

“I've talked to local hospitals here in my district in here in my state. Yes, the waiting rooms get full, but guess what? The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID,” Greene said. “But they're seeing about 30 percent of those numbers being COVID cases.”

She further said that while the media “tries to tell us” that hospitals are “slam-packed with COVID,” that simply isn’t the case.

"Everybody needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we're human, we can't live forever, we're going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses, and we get hurt sometimes,” she continued.

Hospitals around the country are struggling as they see a surge of COVID-19 cases fueled by the highly transmittable delta variant.

One hospital, Memorial Health in Chatham County, Ga., told a local ABC affiliate that it had to stop accepting patient transfers from other hospitals.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...95Smb1AY3u2uLehLScWRGGWRZkF8_NBssXcotdzuwbm4I

 

OHSU statement on Aug. 10 COVID-19 forecast

The latest data on the delta variant of COVID-19 and its predicted impact on Oregon is dire. By Labor Day, OHSU predicts that the state will be short 400-500 needed staffed hospital beds. This means that some Oregonians will not be able to get hospital care for COVID-19 or any other condition.

Cases are rapidly rising and the current forecast predicts that Oregon will have more than 1,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients by Labor Day. This is the worst-case scenario that Oregonians worked so hard to avoid in March 2020.

It’s a shocking number, and one that was repeatedly checked against other available data and the effects of the current surge observed in other states. Oregon is in a difficult position because we have the fewest number of available hospital beds per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Oregon hospitals are also simultaneously experiencing severe staff burn out and workforce shortages.

Therefore, unless Oregonians take immediate action, there will not be an available hospital bed for many patients who need it for COVID-19 or other urgent issues like heart attacks, trauma accidents and strokes.

https://news.ohsu.edu/2021/08/10/prepared-statement-on-august-10-covid-forecast

 

That (reading the editorial) only works if you are a subscriber to the WSJ.

barfo

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-school-district-rattled-3-165516484.html

3 Florida teachers in the same school district have just died of covid before classes are to restart. But, DeSantis is cool with not protecting the people of his state. No safety mandates.

 

Wow