Utah’s hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs
“If ICU space or ventilators run out, it’s time for step three. It calls for looking at patients’ condition scores but also considering individual factors; in general, those with high and worsening scores are the first to be transferred out of an ICU. If shortages worsen, hospitals should then consider transferring patients with high or worsening scores. Pregnant patients get priority for intensive care, and if two patients are equally eligible for a spot in the ICU, it generally goes to the younger patient.”
Texas hospitals are running out of drugs, beds, ventilators and even staff
Fact check: Trump claimed he was left ‘no ventilators.’ His administration just confirmed he had more than 16,000
In New York’s largest hospital system, many coronavirus patients on ventilators didn’t make it
Cuomo and the ‘missing’ ventilators: a tale of misinformation (Editorial)
New York state paid $69 million for ventilators that never came
The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients
I spent six days on a ventilator with covid-19. It saved me, but my life is not the same.
How do ventilators work?
US Military sold ‘surplus’ ventilators, face masks as coronavirus spread across the country
Trump announces creation of federal ventilator stockpile after ‘scariest’ day of his life
Ventilator shortage spurs team of doctors to take extreme measures
GM prepares to ship first round of ventilators
Slow Response to the Coronavirus Measured in Lost Opportunity
“If the administration had reacted to the ventilator shortage in February, a private sector effort starting now might have made lifesaving equipment in mid- to late April. Now it is unlikely to be before June.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators.html?referringSource=articleShare
Jake Tapper NAILS IT!
March 14, 2020:
Ventilator Maker: We Can Ramp Up Production Five-Fold
Ventilator Shortages Loom As States Ponder Rules For Rationing
“We’re being punished again”: How people with intellectual disabilities are experiencing the pandemic
Trump passes the buck as deadly ventilator shortage looms
Too many coronavirus patients, too few ventilators: Outlook in US could get bad, quickly
Coronavirus cases now in 60 nursing homes, multiple corrections facilities in Maryland: ‘The virus is everywhere’
THIS:
We have 62,000 Ventilators
United States Resource Availability for COVID-19
Supply of mechanical ventilators in U.S. acute care hospitals: Based on a 2009 survey of AHA hospitals, U.S. acute care hospitals are estimated to own approximately 62,000 full-featured mechanical ventilators.10,11 Approximately 46% of these can be used to ventilate pediatric and neonatal patients. Additionally, some hospitals keep older models for emergency purposes. Older models, which are not full featured but may provide basic functions, add an additional 98,738 ventilators to the U.S. supply.10 The older devices include 22,976 noninvasive ventilators, 32,668 automatic resuscitators, and 8567 continuous positive airway pressure units.
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
Estimates of hospitalized patients requiring critical care and mechanical ventilation: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated in 2005 that 865,000 U.S. residents would be hospitalized during a moderate pandemic (as in the 1957 and 1968 influenza pandemics) and 9.9 million during a severe pandemic (as in the 1918 influenza pandemic).16 A recent AHA webinar on COVID-19 projected that 30% (96 million) of the U.S. population will test positive, with 5% (4.8 million) being hospitalized. Of the hospitalized patients, 40% (1.9 million) would be admitted to the ICU, and 50% of the ICU admissions (960,000) would require ventilatory support.17 Such projections, however, are gross estimates. Some assumptions underlying these projections are uncertain, and the pacing of a large outbreak would influence whether ICU resources in isolated locations or nationally are severely taxed over many months or quickly overwhelmed over a shorter period. Additionally, COVID-19 patients may remain mechanically ventilated for indeterminate periods of time, with some developing prolonged or chronic critical illness requiring the extended use of ICU beds, ventilators, supplies, and trained clinicians.
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
New York is a great example!
“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you’re going to major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators. And now, all of a sudden, they’re saying, can we order 30,000 ventilators?”
N.Y.C. Death Toll Tops 1,500 as Cuomo Warns on Ventilators
Andrew Cuomo is the Governor of the STATE of New York!
Why does he need 40,000 ventilators? 19.54 million live in the STATE of New York.
New York hospitals received damaged ventilators with missing parts in emergency shipments from a national stockpile
FLU (We Have a Vaccine!)
Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
“CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.”
US Population is 372.2 million people. 39 million caught the flu this flu season (and we have a flu vaccine). 10.4%
Remember: “A recent AHA webinar on COVID-19 projected that 30% (96 million) of the U.S. population will test positive, with 5% (4.8 million) being hospitalized.”
“Of the hospitalized patients, 40% (1.9 million) would be admitted to the ICU, and 50% of the ICU admissions (960,000) would require ventilatory support”
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
IF 30% of New York residents catch this, 5,862,000 cases
IF 5% of those cases need to be hospitalized. 293,100 patients hospitalized.
IF 40% of those 293,100 need to be hospitalized, 117,240 patients in ICU.
IF half of 117,240 in ICU need a ventilator? 58,620 ventilators needed!
A ventilator has to be on the floor, ready to go!
| New York City | 8,601,186 | 34,105 ventilators |
| Buffalo | 252,555 | 1,001 |
| Rochester | 206,318 | 818 |
| Yonkers | 202,127 | 801 |
| Syracuse | 141,353 | 560 |
| Albany | 97,640 | 387 |
| New Rochelle | 79,518 | 315 |
| Mount Vernon | 68,212 | 270 |
| Schenectady | 63,536 | 252 |
| Utica | 59,608 | 236 |
People are going to DIE from Lack of Ventilators!
FEMA tells House panel national supply of ventilators running low
We are in a race against time!
Automakers are racing to make ventilators. But it’s not that easy
The ‘incredibly challenging’ ventilator effort by Ventec, GM
Ventec CEO Chris Kiple told GM’s global manufacturing chief, Gerald Johnson, that one of more than 700 components needed to build his company’s VOCSN ventilator was made by a factory in India where the entire region had been quarantined. While about 80% of VOCSN parts are made in the United States, that lone India holdup would derail any expanded production plans because the ventilator can’t work without that missing piece.
On Monday, Ford and General Electric announced they too are joining forces to produce 1,500 ventilators by the end of April, 12,000 by June and 50,000 by July. The ventilators would be a cheaper version of an FDA-approved machine produced by Airon
https://www.heraldnet.com/business/the-incredibly-challenging-ventilator-effort-by-ventec-gm/
We need 800,000 more!
Ford, GE Healthcare to produce 50,000 ventilators by July using this tiny company’s design
TOO LATE AND NOT ENOUGH!
N.J. Starts Thinking Over How to Ration Scarce Ventilators
Life-or-Death Hospital Decisions Come With Threat of Lawsuits
Ventilators limited for the disabled? Rationing plans are slammed amid coronavirus crisis
When you are on a ventilator (IF YOU GET ONE!) you have to be sedated
Doctors fear shortage of drug critical to ventilator treatment for coronavirus
They take operators and medical staff!
TRAINED OPERATORS FOR CORONAVIRUS PATIENT VENTILATORS SCARCE IN NEW YORK
Ventilator Patients need Beds to Lay On!
The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Spread To Millions In The US. We Don’t Have Nearly Enough Hospital Beds If It Does.
I have created an Index of how this is Completely on Donald Trump and his incompetent administration – I Am Mad As Hell!
