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filly wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:24 pm Lollapalooza in Chicago this weekend doesn't seem like a good idea either.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:31 pm

filly wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:24 pm Lollapalooza in Chicago this weekend doesn't seem like a good idea either.

And we're 99.9% decided to skip Jazz Fest this year in Oct. My heart is breaking, but better than getting sick.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville’s local hospitals are bursting at the seams as COVID-19 cases surge. A UF Health spokesperson says its campuses were treating 186 COVID-19 patients as of Thursday.

“That means you have patients lying in stretchers that should be admitted into a hospital bed, but there is nowhere to put them,” UF Health Assistant Chief Medical Officer Dr. Chirag Patel said.

Patel says UF Health’s North campus is already above capacity at 130 percent, and the downtown location is 95 percent full.

Data as of Monday from Health and Human Services show how overwhelmed hospitals are. The data show Ascention St. Vincent’s on the Southside is actually in the negative for ICU beds available to patients. And Orange Park Medical Center reportedly has a zero percent availability for ICU beds.

As the delta variant ravages the state, patients are waiting in hallways at Mississippi’s largest hospital as staff scramble to care for the influx of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization.

All 92 beds in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s intensive care unit, the state’s largest, are full. The hospital's emergency department is overwhelmed and doctors and nurses are working around the clock to get sick patients into hospital rooms.

“There just aren’t enough nurses, physicians and hospital beds to treat the cases this wave is causing,” said Jonathan Wilson, UMMC’s chief administrative officer.

UMMC is not the only hospital experiencing a strain. As of Friday in the Jackson metro area, where COVID-19 cases are rising fastest, there were only three ICU beds available collectively at all area hospitals, according to state health department data. Only 78 of 826 ICU beds statewide were available, or less than 10%, according to state health department data.

Notaperson wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 8:43 pm Mississippi ICUs have only 10% of beds available as COVID-19 delta variant surges, none at UMMC

As the delta variant ravages the state, patients are waiting in hallways at Mississippi’s largest hospital as staff scramble to care for the influx of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization.

All 92 beds in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s intensive care unit, the state’s largest, are full. The hospital's emergency department is overwhelmed and doctors and nurses are working around the clock to get sick patients into hospital rooms.

“There just aren’t enough nurses, physicians and hospital beds to treat the cases this wave is causing,” said Jonathan Wilson, UMMC’s chief administrative officer.

UMMC is not the only hospital experiencing a strain. As of Friday in the Jackson metro area, where COVID-19 cases are rising fastest, there were only three ICU beds available collectively at all area hospitals, according to state health department data. Only 78 of 826 ICU beds statewide were available, or less than 10%, according to state health department data.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/new ... 430166001/

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 7:55 am I'm terrified of what will happen when school starts back up. Here in Floriduh, DeathSantis has signed a bill, or will sign it, that will defund any school district that mandates masks.

I get that he's an asshole, but how can he not realize what letting children become ill, hospitalized and even die, will do to his reelection?

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:17 pm

filly wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:53 pm

filly wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:55 pm https:// twitter.com/TomBossert/status/1421551061286985741

Thomas P. Bossert
@TomBossert
This is not good. FL is now in uncharted territory with 21.7K new cases reported today (the largest single day number of new cases). 108 new deaths. This wave is now larger than all previous waves. 10,187 hospitalized (83% of its all-time pandemic high). Time to change gears:
9:19 PM · Jul 31, 2021

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 9:26 pm FL hospitals are already full, especially up north. Two weeks from now they'll be overflowing and by Labor Day the death rates will look like last year. Our local children's hospital is starting to fill up with covid patients, something that wasn't a big problem during the first three spikes.

I can't help but thinking of that idiot woman's shirt that read "DeSantis 2024 - Make America Florida