Wisconsin hospitals: 361 admitted COVID-19 cases, 4,272 empty beds
Racine Journal Times,
by
Heather Larson Poyner
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
4/26/2020 2:21:00 PM
As the COVID-19 pandemic strains health care in hotspots of the country, a close look at the situation at hospitals locally and across Wisconsin shows reason for optimism.
In recent days, the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 statewide and locally has held steady or declined.
On Friday, the state Department of Health Services reported that 361 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Wisconsin, with 143 requiring intensive care.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
The Remnants 4/26/2020 2:49:41 PM (No. 392352)
Why isn't someone doing a piece - writing - video - that compares the Pandemic of 1918 to the Pandemic of 2020? There are all sorts of measurements that can be used - similarities/differences. Seems, sometimes, that some of the powers-that-be want us to believe it is worse than it is, for whatever reasons.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/26/2020 2:50:18 PM (No. 392354)
Seems to be the theme in most places other than in NY?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/26/2020 2:54:16 PM (No. 392358)
I wonder how many recall that the original response to this mysterious Chinese virus was based upon the model done by Brit Neil (sp?) Ferguson, OBE, who predicted catastrophic illness and death numbers in the UK and in the US as well?
It is easy now to fault the response of those who had only models like Ferguson’s to work with. That should be considered when some go charging off to support the media’s now claims that there was overreaction. The media were very keen on those models when they first came out only a few months ago.
I am appalled when I see the Pavlov’s dog reactions by so many to whichever way the media is trying to take us on any given day.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/26/2020 3:08:47 PM (No. 392367)
Remember the forecasts of apocalypse and doom when the Primary elections were held, not cancelled? Some 400,000+/- people were going to vote? Remember?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2020 3:11:40 PM (No. 392370)
Similar here in Kansas. We have 2,339 hospital beds, 252 ICU beds, and 910 "surge beds" in our county of 600,000 people. Of those, 1,998 hospital beds are in use, and 131 ICU beds are in use. Sounds like half the ICU and 2/3 the hospital beds taken up with Wuhan flu cases......right? Nope.
But look again. The total number hospitalized in our county from Wuhan flu is 51.
We have had only 5 new hospitalizations for Wuhan in the last 10 days. NONE in the last 4 days.
That is 51 out of 2,129 people in the hospital right now have this virus.
That is 2.4 % of the people in the hospital right now have Wuhan flu.
No new hospitalizations in four days.
Why are we still locked down?!
End it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 4/26/2020 3:19:15 PM (No. 392377)
Why are we locked down in purgatory?
Models were wrong!
Russia collusion was a lie.
Ukraine story was complete crap.
Destruction of our entire economy is collateral damage that the Democrats/Media are absolutely fine with.
They really got him this time!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/26/2020 3:20:54 PM (No. 392380)
If our media honestly and objectively did their investigative jobs, they would have created a county by county table showing such statistics, showing the true impact of Covid. If they did, these lockdowns would be over in no time. It's absurd to keep entire states in quarantine for the ridiculously small impacts the virus has caused on a county by county basis.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/26/2020 3:27:43 PM (No. 392388)
I am not Monday morning quarter backing decisions made when we had NO info, thanks in great part to China's unwillingness to be honest with the world. Plans were made with an abundance of caution and that makes sense. But we are a couple months down the road now so yes, we have cause to question and protest even if the pearl clutchers say that is "not what we do."
I am indeed critical of the continued ignoring of facts and data and the duplicitous methods of progressive elites and politicians mostly on the state and local level who plan to indefinitely continue this ineffectual lockdown and destruction of our nation. We have tons of data now all pointing to a ubiquitous virus on par with the flu that does very little or no harm to 90+% of the population. You do not quarantine the healthy!!
If you can not tell the difference between the two, I'm sorry.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wildcat1 4/26/2020 4:02:39 PM (No. 392417)
#5 Our dear governor is communicating with Missouri and Colorado governors, but no communication with Nebraska and Oklahoma, which will both be starting up again soon. I live in southern Kansas. Thousands will be going to Oklahoma to restaurants and casinos. Texas may well open full blast soon, we will be going there if that happens. San Antonio here we come, I hope.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/26/2020 4:17:15 PM (No. 392435)
#9 On a similar note, we in TN are coming off lockdown next week thanks to a sensible governor but the little Democrat Hitler that runs Nashville, our home, has decided to hold out. He has his own "plan" that is completely arbitrary, politically motivated, and actually pretty dangerous. He isn't opening up hospitals until phase 2 and he gets to decide when that is based on numbers he can manipulate.
Sooo... we will just take our custom to neighboring counties that have leaders with the sense God gave a goose and spend our money there. Thankfully dh works in one of those other counties. I'd never thought about moving out of Nashville to another county (we have lived here for 20+ years) but our mayor is going a long way toward convincing me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 4/26/2020 5:34:49 PM (No. 392469)
Notice how every virus story about crowded hospitals, always takes place in New York City. Everywhere else, hospitals are laying off staff because they just don't have anything to do. Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore is in that position. They're switching staff members around trying to keep them working, and the nursing staff has taken or is about to take a 15% pay cut.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/26/2020 6:26:17 PM (No. 392497)
The original rationale for closing things down was that the medical system was about to be deluged and overwhelmed with China virus cases. Clearly that did not come even close to happening. Time to open back up and get back to work.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/26/2020 6:52:08 PM (No. 392519)
Lies and lying liars.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2020 7:34:53 PM (No. 392547)
#9, the problem in Kansas is pretty much now all in the counties with the large numbers of illegals working in the meat packing plants - put there specifically to attract illegals, NOT Americans.
Ford, Seward, Finney and Lyon county are the hot spots now.....among the illegals working in these plants. Rapidly spreading cases in those sparsely populated counties, more cases (459) now in Ford county, population 33,000 than in Johnson County, population 600,000 with 430 cases. Two zip codes in Ford county account for the cases.....where the meat packing plants are, I will bet. Doubling time in Ford county is 4 days, doubling time in Johnson county, is greater than 30 days.
Let the Americans in the rest of Kansas OUT of this lockdown. Send the illegals to their own countries.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Janylou 4/26/2020 11:06:19 PM (No. 392662)
Yesterday I looked at the number of deaths in AZ compared to the population. It came out .0000374%. That is what we shut our economy down for. Looks like WI has an even lower percentage.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/27/2020 1:43:45 AM (No. 392749)
Only 361 hospitalized, leaving 4,272 empty beds. The Governor wants to furlough doctors and nurses to up that unemployment rate and put hospitals out of business. It's the demonrat way. By the way, flu kills more people, so why isn't the economy shut down every year because of that? Frankly, I think the whole coronavirus was orchestrated.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/27/2020 8:19:18 AM (No. 392934)
WOW, just like lots of other states, the 'Curve' isn't just flat, it's going to Hades!
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