Utah hospitals have begun informal
rationing of care, doctors say, as they
cope with surge of COVID-19 patients
Salt Lake Tribune,
by
Erin Alberty
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
11/23/2020 4:43:16 AM
With a combination of luck, new hires and creative reorganizing of staff and patients, Utah’s hospitals haven’t had to eject anyone from intensive care units due to the coronavirus.
But several doctors say the solutions still amount to rationing, with the quality of care deteriorating as hospitals are stretched thinner and thinner.
And with record numbers of new patients being admitted every day, they say the breaking point is all but inevitable.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 11/23/2020 4:56:04 AM (No. 613807)
I blame Biden.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Californian 11/23/2020 4:56:23 AM (No. 613808)
If only we had Joe a year then not a single American would have died!!!
He has a plan!
*eye roll*
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/23/2020 5:23:54 AM (No. 613819)
The question I'm about to pose is VERY cynical and Borderline conspiracy theory, but maybe not, considering everything we know about voting machine monkey business these days: What if these WuFlu tests automatically default to positive to up the numbers in those same way that voting machines flip votes to Biden? Or maybe it's the test analysts who do the flipping? I trust nothing anymore.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
anniebc 11/23/2020 5:55:16 AM (No. 613837)
I think people are panicking because of Biden's fake president-elect status. People are scared sick that this old fool and that wench might be running the country.
A few stats from the long article on the latest 14 deaths:
Three Salt Lake County women, ages 25 to 44, 65 to 84, and older than 85.
Four Salt Lake County men, ages 65 to 84.
Two Weber County men, one age 65 to 84 and one older than 85.
A Utah County man older than 85.
A Wasatch County man, age 65 to 84.
An Emery County man, age 65 to 84.
A Washington County man, age 45 to 64.
A Sevier County man, age 65 to 84.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 11/23/2020 6:05:55 AM (No. 613843)
#3 is surely aware of people who filled out paperwork, never got the test, then were declared "positive". The cases and death count are at the whim of the media. Nothing more.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mean Gene 11/23/2020 6:07:29 AM (No. 613844)
According to phone calls from my provider, Utah's doctors and hospitals were begging patients to come in for non-emergency type procedures up until a few days ago.
The governor has outlawed most of the really effective treatments that save symptomatic covid patients for no other reason than President Trump touts them.
And many people here falsely believe their own families are somehow automatically "clean," so they won't "distance."
Then grampa gets covid and they act all shocked.....as they try to get closer to me.
If you're in my age group in Utah, you have to look out for yourself.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mizzmac 11/23/2020 7:03:52 AM (No. 613877)
Call Mitt. Ask him to solve the problem. That'll be fun.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Laotzu 11/23/2020 8:49:02 AM (No. 613978)
As Utah's ICUs reached capacity a month ago, the real problem was identified as lack of staff. They can establish more facilities without much effort. They just can't staff them. The AMA appears to do a fine job of ensuring that there will never be a surplus of trained doctors in America.
I don't know that I advocate for the alternative. But it is worth considering why capitalism doesn't respond to the shortage of healthcare workers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/23/2020 9:42:13 AM (No. 614032)
I question the veracity of the spikes. Too convenient for JoHo. Then there is the complete unreliability of the test results.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JackBurton 11/23/2020 9:44:48 AM (No. 614039)
I blame the media and the anti-trumpers. Hydroxy/zinc/zpac works, can be given when symptoms appear for outpatient use, and would spare the hospital beds.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 11/23/2020 9:53:13 AM (No. 614049)
Maybe their rationing care because most of the people coming in aren't that ill. People are showing up at the hospital for the every sneeze and cough because they've been told that if they sneeze or cough they must have Covid, and they must be tested, tested, tested. The hospital is for those that are most ill, not for every person with the sniffles.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 11/23/2020 10:45:33 AM (No. 614108)
@ #8- maybe they just now realized that they are living in Utah..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 11/23/2020 12:07:45 PM (No. 614233)
They are coping with an influx of patients during flu season that are being DIAGNOSED with Covid. They are also dealing with institutionalized staff shortages, due to mismanagement of resources, and a refusal to administer effective drug treatments. I know for a fact that this is happening at UNMC. I cannot imagine they are the only ones.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 11/23/2020 12:24:56 PM (No. 614250)
I have thought for quite a while that what #3 says is a big part of the problem. My sister was sick earlier this summer. She went for test, was told to isolate, went later for another test, negative. Of course, they wanted her to keep coming in every few days for test. She said "NO!" They would have kept her coming until getting a false positive, then they get more MONEY and she loses all the way around.
If Ellen Musk test positive two out of four times, why would the odds be any better for the rest of us?
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