Idaho Hospitals Enacting "Crisis Care" Rules
The intensive care rooms at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires, and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: all unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged or younger, reliant on life support, and locked in a silent struggle against COVID-19.
With a critical shortage of hospital beds and staff and one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates, Idaho health providers are growing desperate, and preparing to follow crisis standards of care, which call for giving scarce resources to patients most likely to survive, i.e. the vaccinated.
Originally posted by Impediment
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Originally posted by Adam_PoE
According to the Topeka Captial-Journal, "Kansas Department of Health and Environment secretary Lee Norman reported that poison control officials in Kansas have marked a 40% increase in the ingestion of toxic chemicals following remarks made by Trump, who seemed to suggest COVID-19 could be treated by injecting disinfectant. One man over the weekend drank a product 'because of the advice that he had received,' Norman said."It must be all of those liberal Democrats in Kansas and their uncharitible interpretations taking advice from Trump and attempting to drink household cleaners.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Argentinian authorities have charged Andreas Kalcker, a key figure in a sprawling movement that hails toxic bleach as a "miracle" medical treatment. The charges follow a seven-month-long investigation by the UFIMA, which investigates medical crimes in Argentina.The investigation was launched after the August 2020 death of a five-year-old boy in Neuquen of multiple organ failure consistent with chlorine dioxide poisoning. The child's parents believed, on the basis of misinformation spread by Kalcker and others, that the substance had the power to ward off COVID-19.
It is unclear if the charges are related to "bleach church" founder Mark Grenon, who claims that Trump consumed his product. Trump publicly suggested using "disinfectant" to treat COVID just days after Grenon reportedly sent him a letter touting bleach. Grenon was arrested by the DOJ in July 2020.
Poll: 50% of Texans Disapprove of GOV Abbott
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
A public opinion poll released Thursday provided new evidence that Floridians are gravely concerned about the current surge in COVID-19 cases, think it was largely preventable, and support requiring masks in public schools to protect public health. The Quinnipiac University Poll also found many Floridians are not happy with Governor Ron DeSantis' pandemic performance.A significant majority—including more than half of voters in his own Republican Party—oppose the governor's efforts to punish school leaders who have defied the governor and implemented mask mandates. DeSantis' move to withhold salaries of school leaders for mandating masks for students is a "bad idea" to 69% of Floridians and a "good idea" to 25%.
Most people also disagree with another DeSantis move: banning local governments from imposing mask mandates. The poll found more than two-thirds of Florida adults think local officials should be able to require masks in indoor public spaces.
New polling from the Texas Politics Project asked voters whether they thought the state was headed in the right direction. Just 35% of those polls said yes; 52% said they thought Texas was on the wrong track.
"This is really an eye-opener for us," said Jim Henson, executive director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas. Henson added that the poll has tracked this question since 2009. This is the highest negative reading ever for the poll.
The poll shows Gov. Greg Abbott's approval rating dropping. His job performance received 41% approval, with 50% saying they disapprove of the job he is doing.
Florida Stops Reporting COVID Deaths by County
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
As cases ballooned in August, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline.On Monday, Florida death data would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported to the CDC over the previous week had the health department used its former reporting system. Instead, the Monday update from Florida showed just 46 "new deaths" per day over the previous seven days. The dramatic difference is due to a small change in the fine print.
If you chart deaths by Florida's new method, based on date of death, it will generally appear—even during a spike like the present—that deaths are on a recent downslope. That is because it takes time for deaths to be evaluated and death certificates processed. When those deaths finally are tallied, they are assigned to the actual data of death—creating a spike where there once existed a downslope and moving the downslope forward in time.
For those wanting to know how many people are dying every day in their own communities, good luck. The state of Florida will not say. Nor will most local public health officials. At least one county acknowledged it does not know. Federal websites show either incomplete or inconsistent data for Florida's counties.
We know that Florida last week reported 2,345 COVID-19 deaths for the state. But almost uniquely throughout the United States, Florida has not reported deaths at the county level for three months. The intensity of this worst wave of the pandemic in a given locale is anyone's guess.
Daily COVID Cases Up 300% from Last Labor Day
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The intensive care rooms at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires, and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: all unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged or younger, reliant on life support, and locked in a silent struggle against COVID-19.With a critical shortage of hospital beds and staff and one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates, Idaho health providers are growing desperate, and preparing to follow crisis standards of care, which call for giving scarce resources to patients most likely to survive, i.e. the vaccinated.
Daily coronavirus infections are more than four times what the U.S. was seeing on Labor Day last year—a 316% increase, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And daily deaths are almost twice as high.
Blame the highly-contagious delta variant and a swath of Americans refusing easily-accessible vaccines that most of the developing world is furiously scrambling to obtain.
Hospitalizations are up 158% from a year ago, U.S. Health and Human Services data shows. The result: Some U.S. hospitals are getting so crowded with COVID-19 patients that physicians may soon be compelled to make life-or-death decisions on who gets an ICU bed. When this happens, resources are rationed to patients most likely to survive, which precludes the unvaccinated.
Idaho Hospitals Begin Rationing Healthcare
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The intensive care rooms at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires, and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: all unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged or younger, reliant on life support, and locked in a silent struggle against COVID-19.With a critical shortage of hospital beds and staff and one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates, Idaho health providers are growing desperate, and preparing to follow crisis standards of care, which call for giving scarce resources to patients most likely to survive, i.e. the vaccinated.
Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated "crisis standards of care," allowing health care rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement Tuesday morning, warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalized.
Idaho has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S. The state health agency cited "a severe shortage of staffing and available beds in the northern area of the state caused by a massive increase in patients with COVID-19 who require hospitalization."
U.S. Passes 40M COVID Cases, 4M in Last 4 Weeks
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Daily coronavirus infections are more than four times what the U.S. was seeing on Labor Day last year—a 316% increase, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And daily deaths are almost twice as high.Blame the highly-contagious delta variant and a swath of Americans refusing easily-accessible vaccines that most of the developing world is furiously scrambling to obtain.
Hospitalizations are up 158% from a year ago, U.S. Health and Human Services data shows. The result: Some U.S. hospitals are getting so crowded with COVID-19 patients that physicians may soon be compelled to make life-or-death decisions on who gets an ICU bed. When this happens, resources are rationed to patients most likely to survive, which precludes the unvaccinated.
The U.S. has now tallied more than 40-million Covid-19 cases across the pandemic, with more than 4-million of them reported in the last four weeks alone, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The count only represents officially reported positive test results, so the actual number of infections is much larger.
The jump in cases has translated into overcrowded hospitals, and a rise in infections among children—of particular concern, as many students return to their classrooms. Experts fear that a holiday weekend could make matters worse.