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From The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point in The Atlantic [1]: In South Dakota, a network of 37 hospitals reported sending more than 150 people home

From The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point in The Atlantic [1]: In South Dakota, a network of 37 hospitals reported sending more than 150 people home with oxygen tanks to keep beds open for even sicker patients. A hospital in Amarillo, Texas, reported that COVID-19 patients are waiting in the emergency room for beds to become available. Some patients in Laredo, Texas, were sent to hospitals in San Antonio—until that city stopped accepting transfers. Elsewhere in Texas, patients were sent to Oklahoma, but hospitals there have also tightened their admission criteria. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/the-worst-case-scenario-is-happening-hospitals-are-overwhelmed/617301/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/the-worst... Edit: typesetting

nickthemagicman 6y ago
The Atlantic was one of the media outlets that was drumming up fear that Houston was running out of room back in July and it never happened. Actually all of the heads of the hospital in Houston came together and said that was false reporting and there was plenty of capacity. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/health/coronavirus/texas-medical-center-changes-online-icu-occupancy-presentation/285-96e305b6-3d13-40a3-951e-3561e9eb84a9 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/h... The Atlantic has been drumming up fear about Covid this entire time with numerous fear-mongering articles. Just look at the headlines of the Atlantics reporting of Covid. Everything is dire or a disaster or a death knell. Super sensationalist. The Atlantic has become the NY Post and they're probably making tons of money with fear-based articles. https://www.theatlantic.com/category/coronavirus-covid-19/ https://www.theatlantic.com/category/coronavirus-covid-19/ I would love a real actual data set. The news media is not a scientific reference to me. It actually scares me that ppl use the news media as a scientific reference.
- disabled 6y ago
  > The Atlantic was one of the media outlets that was drumming up fear that Houston was running out of room back in July and it never happened. I call BS. I had a family member who was hospitalized in late June in Houston, for non-coronavirus reasons, at the #1 rated hospital in Texas for general medical care. They were literally hospitalized the night when our county judge put out the emergency alert on all mobile phones to stay home and isolate because the hospitals were going to go over capacity. The hospital was my family member was at was absolutely inundated. The pharmacy would hang up on the nurses because they were so swamped. Sometimes meals would come nearly 3 hours late. Nurse calls were not answered at times for over an hour. My family member was also hospitalized in October, for non-coronavirus reasons, and it was actually worse than in late June. These hospitals are basically now running two hospitals in one: a coronavirus hospital and a non-coronavirus hospital--that are not supposed to mix (everybody admitted to this hospital gets tested for coronavirus) but this still happens anyways. This is such a huge undertaking and requires tremendous amounts of work by all of the healthcare staff. Dude, you are being so disrespectful towards the people who are literally working non-stop under tremendous pressure. They are our last line of defense, for saving lives, and you are just totally blowing the whole situation off like it is no big deal.
  - nickthemagicman 6y ago
    So are the heads of the hospitals then apparently? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/health/coronavirus/texas-medical-center-changes-online-icu-occupancy-presentation/285-96e305b6-3d13-40a3-951e-3561e9eb84a9 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/h...
  - nickthemagicman 6y ago
    For future reference in your discussions anecdotal evidence is actually considered a logical fallacy. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal

nickthemagicman 6y ago

The Atlantic was one of the media outlets that was drumming up fear that Houston was running out of room back in July and it never happened. Actually all of the heads of the hospital in Houston came together and said that was false reporting and there was plenty of capacity. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/health/coronavirus/texas-medical-center-changes-online-icu-occupancy-presentation/285-96e305b6-3d13-40a3-951e-3561e9eb84a9 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/h... The Atlantic has been drumming up fear about Covid this entire time with numerous fear-mongering articles. Just look at the headlines of the Atlantics reporting of Covid. Everything is dire or a disaster or a death knell. Super sensationalist. The Atlantic has become the NY Post and they're probably making tons of money with fear-based articles. https://www.theatlantic.com/category/coronavirus-covid-19/ https://www.theatlantic.com/category/coronavirus-covid-19/ I would love a real actual data set. The news media is not a scientific reference to me. It actually scares me that ppl use the news media as a scientific reference.

disabled 6y ago
> The Atlantic was one of the media outlets that was drumming up fear that Houston was running out of room back in July and it never happened. I call BS. I had a family member who was hospitalized in late June in Houston, for non-coronavirus reasons, at the #1 rated hospital in Texas for general medical care. They were literally hospitalized the night when our county judge put out the emergency alert on all mobile phones to stay home and isolate because the hospitals were going to go over capacity. The hospital was my family member was at was absolutely inundated. The pharmacy would hang up on the nurses because they were so swamped. Sometimes meals would come nearly 3 hours late. Nurse calls were not answered at times for over an hour. My family member was also hospitalized in October, for non-coronavirus reasons, and it was actually worse than in late June. These hospitals are basically now running two hospitals in one: a coronavirus hospital and a non-coronavirus hospital--that are not supposed to mix (everybody admitted to this hospital gets tested for coronavirus) but this still happens anyways. This is such a huge undertaking and requires tremendous amounts of work by all of the healthcare staff. Dude, you are being so disrespectful towards the people who are literally working non-stop under tremendous pressure. They are our last line of defense, for saving lives, and you are just totally blowing the whole situation off like it is no big deal.
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  So are the heads of the hospitals then apparently? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/health/coronavirus/texas-medical-center-changes-online-icu-occupancy-presentation/285-96e305b6-3d13-40a3-951e-3561e9eb84a9 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.khou.com/amp/article/news/h...
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  For future reference in your discussions anecdotal evidence is actually considered a logical fallacy. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal