7 minutes ago, bugatti said:

Humble brag.

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I didn’t say why I wore them. 

I walked into Kroger today.  Saw the sign about masks being required and wore mine.  First two employees I saw had their masks down around their necks.  All the shoppers had one on.

6 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Five counties in Florida now have no ICU beds available.

How much pain, suffering and death must be endured before Americans become willing to try to help control this virus?

Which counties? How many beds do they have? What’s the normal occupancy of those beds? How many are current occupied by COVID patients? Let’s make sure we’ve got all the facts before trying to imply 5 counties have all their beds filled by COVID patients.

1 hour ago, 00Rocket28 said:

Which counties? How many beds do they have? What’s the normal occupancy of those beds? How many are current occupied by COVID patients? Let’s make sure we’ve got all the facts before trying to imply 5 counties have all their beds filled by COVID patients.

This is an excerpt from a July 13th newsletter from the Deputy Director of Emerging Pathogens  at UF. 

Hospitals around the state are reaching capacity but remember that many hospitals are normally near capacity, and ICUs are near capacity as well. The overwhelming majority of these beds and ICU rooms are not full with COVID-19 patients, despite the surge in cases. ICU numbers change hourly, and in many cases even more frequently, and that’s the case regardless of COVID-19.

9 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Five counties in Florida now have no ICU beds available.

How much pain, suffering and death must be endured before Americans become willing to try to help control this virus?

These are ICU availability from an hour ago.

All of the 5 counties that show 0% availability are counties with very low populations and few ICU beds to begin with, the exception being Hernando County that has 62 ICU beds. The others are Monroe(13 beds), Nassau(8), Okeechobee(8), and Putnum(11).

The hardest hit counties Broward (Ft. Lauderdale), Miam-Dade, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Duval, and Orange Counties all have ICU beds available. Hillsborough has the fewest at 9% availability. Both Palm Beach and Duval are over 22% ICU availability. 450 ICU beds are currently available in those counties alone.

In the BayCare hospital system ICUs only 33% of the patients in ICU are Covid and that is because of one hospital in Polk County, Winter Haven (a 136 bed ICU) is at 70% Covid.

Pediatric ICUs are in even better shape. Only St. Lucie County has none of it's 6 Pediatric ICU beds available. Most others have over 30% availability.

 

Florida's survival rate for positive tests is 98.6%.  

17 minutes ago, swamprat said:

These are ICU availability from an hour ago.

All of the 5 counties that show 0% availability are counties with very low populations and few ICU beds to begin with, the exception being Hernando County that has 62 ICU beds. The others are Monroe(13 beds), Nassau(8), Okeechobee(8), and Putnum(11).

The hardest hit counties Broward (Ft. Lauderdale), Miam-Dade, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Duval, and Orange Counties all have ICU beds available. Hillsborough has the fewest at 9% availability. Both Palm Beach and Duval are over 22% ICU availability.

In the BayCare hospital system ICUs only 33% of the patients in ICU are Covid and that is because of one hospital in Polk County, Winter Haven (a 136 bed ICU) is at 70% Covid.

Pediatric ICUs are in even better shape. Only St. Lucie County has none of it's 6 Pediatric ICU beds available. Most others have over 30% availability.

 

Thanks for the info, Rat.

Is Miami the hardest hit area for Covid?

4 minutes ago, Randy Parker said:

Thanks for the info, Rat.

Is Miami the hardest hit area for Covid?

Yes, Sir. Almost 90,000 cases. Broward is next with 43,000. Palm Beach has 27,000 followed by Hillsborough with 25,000 and Orange with 24,000. 

Mrs. S has had a cough for more than a month. She kept telling me it was from the Lisinopril she had been taking for her high blood pressure. Coughing is a side effect with Lisinopril. When she went to the doctor in May he checked her lungs, heard nothing unusual, cut the amount of Lisinopril she was taking in half, and replaced the other half with another HP med. However the cough kept getting worse. I finally talked her into letting me take her to the doctor yesterday. 

She has been diagnosed with viral pneumonia. Her doctor did NOT give her a Covid test. He heard the rails, she did not have Covid symptoms, the cough has been going on a long time, and he did not feel it was necessary. For what it is worth, he's also my doctor, a retired Army doctor who specialized in biological warfare treatments before, during, and after the Gulf War. I trust him emphatically.

I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out how she got the pneumonia, though. She has been basically isolated since March and I am still doing the CDC recommended cleanup before entering the house. You would think that would isolate her from everything, not just Covid. She has been out of the house 4 times in that period and one of those times was that doctor's appointment in May. I'm having the air in the house tested. 

1 hour ago, Bluegrasscard said:

This is an excerpt from a July 13th newsletter from the Deputy Director of Emerging Pathogens  at UF. 

Hospitals around the state are reaching capacity but remember that many hospitals are normally near capacity, and ICUs are near capacity as well. The overwhelming majority of these beds and ICU rooms are not full with COVID-19 patients, despite the surge in cases. ICU numbers change hourly, and in many cases even more frequently, and that’s the case regardless of COVID-19.

At this time of year the ICU's, at least in the BayCare system, normally run between 85 and 90% capacity. Heart attacks, auto accidents, drug overdoses, and other diseases are still happening. Especially drug overdoses. 

25 minutes ago, swamprat said:

Mrs. S has had a cough for more than a month. She kept telling me it was from the Lisinopril she had been taking for her high blood pressure. Coughing is a side effect with Lisinopril. When she went to the doctor in May he checked her lungs, heard nothing unusual, cut the amount of Lisinopril she was taking in half, and replaced the other half with another HP med. However the cough kept getting worse. I finally talked her into letting me take her to the doctor yesterday. 

She has been diagnosed with viral pneumonia. Her doctor did NOT give her a Covid test. He heard the rails, she did not have Covid symptoms, the cough has been going on a long time, and he did not feel it was necessary. For what it is worth, he's also my doctor, a retired Army doctor who specialized in biological warfare treatments before, during, and after the Gulf War. I trust him emphatically.

I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out how she got the pneumonia, though. She has been basically isolated since March and I am still doing the CDC recommended cleanup before entering the house. You would think that would isolate her from everything, not just Covid. She has been out of the house 4 times in that period and one of those times was that doctor's appointment in May. I'm having the air in the house tested. 

Hope she gets better.  Sounds like she's had a rough go of it.  Pneumonia's no joke. 

5 minutes ago, Randy Parker said:

Hope she gets better.  Sounds like she's had a rough go of it.  Pneumonia's no joke. 

And trying to get her to go to the doctor is like trying to pull teeth. 

Friend of mine tested positive and then got a second test done where he tested negative for the virus and antibodies.  His story was featured on WKYT.  His original positive test was the reason my wife and I were tested yesterday.  

7 hours ago, swamprat said:

At this time of year the ICU's, at least in the BayCare system, normally run between 85 and 90% capacity. Heart attacks, auto accidents, drug overdoses, and other diseases are still happening. Especially drug overdoses. 

Thanks for the additional info in the posts above. Good to hear there are still some ICU beds open and that the death rate is dropping. Medicine has done a very good job figuring out ways to treat CV19 since the spring. If this outbreak in Florida happened in March, Florida would be dealing with a New York like situation in ICU's and deaths.

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Prayers out to Mrs. S for a speedy recovery.

18 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

How much pain, suffering and death must be endured before Americans become willing to try to help control this virus?

Some people just don't care about others, period. 

No amount of positive tests or deaths is going to change the minds of the people who've been the most flippant and dismissive about this from the beginning. That's why I'm not wasting my time debating it anymore with those type of people.