Facts with no perspective nor pertinent information:
a) How many dedicated ICU beds are there?
b) How many normally have a patient on a ventilator ( hint it's pretty common w/out covid19; that's why dedicated ICU beds have the equipement )
c) How many of them have the Brazil Variant? The India Variant?
d) What is the age break down for all patients w/ covid 19?
Someone under 40, while isn't common, is par for course w/ this virus and other viruses.
You know darn well most of those types of statistics are not readily available to the public, especially at the county level. If you think they are, please gather the info and share it with us, citing your sources. Note the comment about such info in the last sentence in the article below.
I think the public messages from our medical community, led by the hospitals, is validation enough that we have a serious problem here that is getting worse by the day. All my hospital "friends" in the know say 99% of COVID cases they see are from the unvaccinated. It really amounts to plain laziness, lack of education or a stubborn and unfounded denial of the facts.
Regardless, these people are endangering not just themselves but all of us (1) given a select number of those vaccinated can still become a carrier or suffer lighter symptoms, (2) that the unvaccinated provide a field upon which the virus can more likely mutate creating even more dangerous strains, some possibly evading current vaccines, (3) that with the unvaccinated clogging our hospitals the rest of us may not be able to get the quality and/or timely care for other serious health issues and (4) that the economic toll on society created by the unvaccinated's medical care and lost productivity is borne by all of us.
Our largest hospital system is reacting currently per the below:
In just one day, COVID-19 cases at Jacksonville hospitals have seen a notable increase, News4Jax learned Wednesday.
Now, hospitals are pulling back on some surgeries previously scheduled for other patients.
Hospitals said most of the new patients are much sicker than those seen during the peak of the pandemic. The majority, health officials say, have the Delta variant.
Doctors said the recent outbreak of coronavirus cases is getting worse and they want local residents to take precautions because in many cases there are no longer mask or social distancing mandates around Florida.
At Baptist Health the hospital beds are filling up with coronavirus patients.
As of Wednesday morning, 179 people were hospitalized and 33 were in the ICU. That’s a 23% increase over Tuesday when 145 people were hospitalized.
“We are working with our surgeons to manage the number of elective surgical procedures that require overnight admission to the hospital,” Baptist Health wrote in a statement to News4Jax. “It is very important to note that many patients are still able to have their procedures as originally scheduled, while others who have been contacted by their surgeon will be given a new surgery date.”
At UF Health Jacksonville there is a similar problem.
In one day, the hospital saw a 15% increase in COVID-19 patients. It now has 70 patients with 20 in the ICU, and there are another 40 in the hospital suspected of having the coronavirus.
UF Health has not canceled or postponed surgeries yet, but it could happen soon.
“Day by day we’re having meetings with our surgeons to review whether or not we need to pause elective surgeries,” said Chad Neilsen, Director of Infection Prevention and Control at UF Health.
Neilsen said most of those coming into the hospital have the Delta variant and he is worried many of them may not be walking out.
“It’s also going to increase our numbers of COVID mortalities because when those numbers in the hospital rise that is followed normally by a two-week period of mortality,” he said.
News4Jax also checked with other hospitals that have been reluctant to release information about their COVID-19 numbers.
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/07/14/baptist-health-puts-some-surgeries-on-hold-as-covid-19-cases-jump-23-in-one-day/
