And here we go again!The Hawaiʻi National Guard cancelled today’s ceremony marking the drawdown of the Hawaiʻi National Guard Joint Task Force (HING JTF) that supported COVID-19 response.
The decision to cancel the ceremony and to reestablish the HING JTF was made by Maj. Gen. Kenneth Hara, the adjutant general for the State of Hawaiʻi as the number of COVID-19 cases rise and in anticipation of support that will be needed for testing, contact tracing, and vaccinations.
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... -capacity/The sole hospital in one Southern Maryland county is at capacity. The number of covid-19 patients in another county, home to the state’s capital, more than doubled in just two weeks. And the seven-day average of patients being treated for covid-19 in Baltimore City has jumped nearly 72 percent since the end of last month.
Hospitalization data — the only coronavirus statistics that health officials in Maryland have had available to them since a cyberattack shut down the state Department of Health’s website nearly two weeks ago — paints an alarming picture of the continued spread of the coronavirus in Maryland and of the ability of hospitals across the state to handle it.
Bob Atlas, president and chief executive of the Maryland Hospital Association, said 93 percent of hospital beds across the state are full. Of the state’s 8,250 hospital beds, covid-19 patients fill 1,150 — or 15 percent — of them.
“Covid is not the dominant condition, but it is what is pushing us to the limit,” Atlas said.
The stupid insurance system would have to change. For me (these are my local options but insert your own options) I have to go to the Providence system to be fully covered - if I go to one of their competitors (Legacy, Kaiser etc.) I have to pay a whole bunch of $. It is all broken.Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 3:05 pm The world has been In the Soup for two years. Can someone explain why there havent been public health moves to, oh, say, designate 1 hospital in every major metro area as non-COVID, for all other needs? This would seem to be a good time to step out of the box in our thinking.
Also, too, and this is just me: after July 4, 2022, if you are willfully unvaxxed, prepare to be massively, globally shunned. Shunning in one’s community is much more effective than shaming.
I fully expect LM K to have something to say about it and I’d love to hear what it is.
It's always been broken. It was set up that way - pro-profit. Healthcare should be a right. BUT OMG OBAMACARE!!!!scirreeve wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:06 amThe stupid insurance system would have to change. For me (these are my local options but insert your own options) I have to go to the Providence system to be fully covered - if I go to one of their competitors (Legacy, Kaiser etc.) I have to pay a whole bunch of $. It is all broken.
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As the omicron variant of COVID-19 quickly spreads across the United States, public health experts fear that Texas’ health care system could once again be overwhelmed by the disease within weeks.
“It’s really accelerating fast,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, a virologist at Baylor College of Medicine. “I think we’re going to be in the middle of it by Christmas.”
Still, medical researchers are trying to determine how severe omicron-related infections are on unvaccinated individuals or even the less-recently vaccinated, since evidence of more mild infections is based largely on anecdotal cases among a younger population, like in South Africa. With Texas’ lagging vaccination rates and an already-depleted hospital workforce, public health experts in the state fear omicron could become devastating for the health care system — even if the variant ends up largely causing only relatively mild illness.
“Those rural counties where we have low vaccination rates and have lost hospital infrastructure, those I think we should be the most concerned about,” said Rebecca Fischer, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. “The past 20 months we have seen hospitals close, we’ve seen hospitals lose their staff. … We are not in a great place with our health care infrastructure to handle another mass influx of cases.”
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
https://www.khon2.com/coronavirus/the-w ... ss-hawaii/The worst-case scenario is here, it’s starting already as we’ve seen our number surge into the 700s. There is nothing we have done and nothing that was changed by the governor and the mayor’s [Friday] to address what the problems are. Therefore, we are now going to then face the omicron variant on top of the delta variant with doubling every one and a half to three days, which is going to create a surge that most of us are predicting now that we’re well into the 1,500 to 2,000 a day range by virtue of end of January — if not sooner.”
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
I think about situations like that every time someone goes on and on about how careful they're being and then plans a trip, or attends an event or hangs out with people they haven't seen in a year or does something else that isn't absolutely necessary. Then blames the state for not clamping down harder or other people for not getting vaxxed or whatever other excuse they have for doing what they want to do. If you're going to family gatherings, or holiday parties, or vacations or whatever else, you're not really doing all you can, except possibly exposing yourself and others.W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:22 am Michigan now has 6 confirmed cases, might be all are imported. The second and third case were in an epidemiologist and her adult daughter, both boostered, who went to a wedding in Wisconsin. Everyone had to be fully vaxxed (boostered if eligible) and wear masks at the wedding, but at the reception people took off their masks to eat and then started dancing. Epidemiologist was taking video on her phone, realized few people were still wearing masks, and immediately left. It was too late. Several people that attended are symptomatic and have tested positive.
