Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

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Just curious. Here in DFW I see hospitalizations are rising to 14%. How are things in the hospitals? Are things relatively normal? No more furloughs?

Please share. I am not in acute care, but I am of course very interested in the effects on acute care staff.

3 hours ago, nursej22 said:

Or it could be a large data upload of past cases. Reporting systems are so disjointed and each state has a different system. And within a state, many agencies don't interface. For instance in my state, we are having challenges coming up with accurate vaccine numbers because the Department of Defense, including the VA don't upload their numbers into the state department of health. We only recently got the numbers from a local tribe who has been awesome about administering vaccines, especially to teachers and college students. They added 4000 doses overnight, that had been given as long ago as April. 

And some states have been accused of withholding data for political reasons, which is stupid. 

I don't get too excited about 1 day's worth of numbers. 

The VA and military do their own reporting and aren't included in state numbers so that's not it.

3 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

It was on the Johns Hopkins COVID resource page. It may very well have been a data dump but they usually make a disclaimer when that happens. I don't normally get my undies in a twist with a day or two of elevated numbers but that was a doozie and Texas dropped their mandates a month ago. Just wondering if the numbers are true is this possibly what is in store for us since our mandates have also lifted.

I'm thinking Spring break, beach folks, and graduation are why the numbers are jumping.

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3 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

It was on the Johns Hopkins COVID resource page. It may very well have been a data dump but they usually make a disclaimer when that happens. I don't normally get my undies in a twist with a day or two of elevated numbers but that was a doozie and Texas dropped their mandates a month ago. Just wondering if the numbers are true is this possibly what is in store for us since our mandates have also lifted.

Johns Hopkins reports 6939 new cases, with a 7 day average of 3180.  Texas DSHS reports reports 1418 new cases.

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center: Texas

Texas DSHS COVID-19 Dashboard

 

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Hmmm, wonder why the big discrepancy. 

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6 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

I'm definitely going to be monitoring it. I do think we have more vaccinated but my state is pretty heavily populated so the transmission is not easy to control.

The rapid decrease of cases in the US is certainly decreasing, but I don't think Texas went from ~1,000 cases per day to 9,000.

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The tarrant positivity rate remains at 3% according to the local paper.

 

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Numbers are back down. Had to be a data dump. ?

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Had in-office followup surgical visit yesterday (first in 6 months),  he's been Director of Surgery for years..  Thanked him for his caring attitude + telemedicine visits. Inquired how he's going with Covid.  Told me he worked daily for 8 months, starting end of April---COVID pandemic worst experience of his career. Minimal Covid in the health system and manageable,

Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 10, 2021

Hospital doctors are seeing far fewer COVID-19 patients now.

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Pandemic IS NOT OVER, just more manageable. Many concerns for Fall 2021 spike since restrictions lifted.

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52 minutes ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Pandemic IS NOT OVER, just more manageable. Many concerns for Fall 2021 spike since restrictions lifted.

It will happen on top of all of us getting all the adenoviruses/rhinoviruses we escaped last year. ?

I  just hope we don't have to be swabbed for every single runny nose. ?

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Something - not Texas - is definitely up. Last week, our percentage decrease in cases day by day was increasing impressively, usually about 25% on up. Now it's down to a -0.2% decrease, a fairly steep fall off. The seven-day average now appears to be plateauing, even if only for a short while. No one's wearing masks, so many of the unvaccinated will be infected, as well as some vaccinated, no doubt. The cases leveling off may be coinciding with the virtual vaccination standstill, I don't know.

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12 hours ago, JVBT said:

Something - not Texas - is definitely up. Last week, our percentage decrease in cases day by day was increasing impressively, usually about 25% on up. Now it's down to a -0.2% decrease, a fairly steep fall off. The seven-day average now appears to be plateauing, even if only for a short while. No one's wearing masks, so many of the unvaccinated will be infected, as well as some vaccinated, no doubt. The cases leveling off may be coinciding with the virtual vaccination standstill, I don't know.

We do expect the unvaccinated to collide with the variants and leave some wreckage behind.  

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46 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

We do expect the unvaccinated to collide with the variants and leave some wreckage behind.  

Yes, that is my concern as well. I don’t think it’s going to be very pretty and I feel for the people who can’t get vaccinated or didn’t mount a response. 

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2 hours ago, Wuzzie said:

Yes, that is my concern as well. I don’t think it’s going to be very pretty and I feel for the people who can’t get vaccinated or didn’t mount a response.

There is still time to turn the increasingly swaying ship around. People are practically walking down the street desperate to give vaccines. What is the key to unlocking this asinine hesitancy? That seems to be the $64,000 question.

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