Delta Variant Chickenpox/ Omicron has entered the Discussion

[Kane]

This is unreal.

https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/sta ... 8202548224

Who would want to work in these areas if this is what you can expect from the public?

[John Galt]

"you can leave freely, but we will find you"

police do nothing

[Kane]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... d-covid-19



Dude says that data doesn't reflect severity of the issue. He doesn't go on to explain in this article...my suspicion: available ICU beds increasingly isn't accounting for staff shortages.

Good job Florida.

[Kane]

[John Galt]

it was a mistake to let those states back in the union without forced cultural conversions to Yankee. it's probably only like 20 diplo points each state i dunno why we didn't do it

[Kane]

Jackson county Oregon:

https://www.ijpr.org/health-and-medicin ... ovid-surge

“It’s A State Of Emergency.” Jackson County Requests Help From State Amid COVID Surge

County Administrator Harvey Bragg says local hospital systems, including Asante and Providence, asked the county to submit this request because they’re struggling to keep up with an influx of patients. The region’s biggest hospital system, Asante, requested 185 additional staff. Providence requested 34. They’re also asking for equipment such as ventilators.

Asante recently announced that it can no longer perform non-urgent surgeries.



Lauren Van Sickle of Asante says the hospital system in July was treating less than a dozen coronavirus patients. This week it’s up to 130.

[Kane]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/11 ... overloaded

Hospitals in Texas are warning of strained resources during a week in which more than 10,000 coronavirus patients have been admitted to hospitals in the state.

At least 53 Texas hospitals had intensive care units that were at maximum capacity. Two in Houston have been so overwhelmed that officials ordered overflow tents to be erected outside. In Austin, intensive care units were running short of beds. And in San Antonio, virus cases reached alarming levels not seen in months, with infants as young as 2 months tethered to supplemental oxygen.


Recently, Texas has averaged more than 14,000 new cases a day, more than double the number seen just two weeks ago, according to a New York Times database. The spike comes as about one in five U.S. hospitals with intensive care units, or 583 total hospitals, recently reported that at least 95 percent of their I.C.U. beds were full as the highly contagious Delta variant fuels surges across the country.

The sudden increase of infections has refocused national attention on the efficacy of masks and comes as Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas remains firm in his refusal to allow cities and school districts to mandate masks. To manage the surge, he appealed to out-of-state health care workers to travel to Texas, where coronavirus-related hospitalizations are projected to exceed 15,000 by the end of August, according to the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. David Persse, Houston’s chief medical officer, blamed state officials for giving inadequate attention to the importance of vaccinations to stem the surge.

Earlier this week, at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, an increasing number of children were being admitted with severe symptoms of coronavirus. Many arriving with unrelated illnesses were also testing positive for the virus, hospital officials said.

Dr. Abhishek Patel, who works in the hospital’s pediatric I.C.U., walked in and out of a room where a 6-month-old and a 2-month-old were battling severe Covid-19 infections and were breathing with the aid of supplemental oxygen. This week alone, he said, two teenagers who had other underlying health problems succumbed to the virus.

— Edgar Sandoval and Giulia Heyward

[Kane]

Interesting how this is being covered by the large media orgs right now.

[Demosthenes]

I'll just leave this here. I'm sure there is no correlation between low vaccination rates and the current hospitalisation rates in the south.

[Kane]

Delta Variant is going to stymie economic growth - I'm already noticing it.

Q3 is not going to meet previous expectations.