A really. simple question about the coronavirus nightmare

[Borgia_dude]

@"WildRose

There isn’t a hospital anywhere in the US at max capacity.

Do you mean at this exact point in time or ever during this crisis?

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

Where can we find the “opinions of every infectious disease expert in the country”. ?

You can’t make this claim of “almost every” unless you have a source for all of them.

Similarly, you made the claim no hospitals have reached capacity. You can’t make the claim unless you have a source for all hospitals.

[H_Arendt]

@WildRose

It’s really cute you’ve all found a new phrase.

If looking at the facts rather than the pundits is “cute” as you say, I’ll be happy to be viewed as cute. Factual, accurate and cute, of course. Fine with me.

[mot1man]

Come on! This is too easy to confirm.

Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, estimated that the US is conducting approximately 1.5 to 2 million Covid-19 tests per week and that "we probably should get up to twice that as we get into the next several weeks, and I think we will

."

Fauci says US should double its testing over next several weeks | CNN Politics

[Samm]

@WildRose

It’s really cute you’ve all found a new phrase.

He may have learned a new phrase, but he apparently didn’t learn the meaning that goes with it.

[WildRose]

I do, the TF who has stated it repeatedly.

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

I do, the TF who has stated it repeatedly.

Pardon my ignorance, who is the TF? Can you link?

[WildRose]

Seriously? The Daily Task Force Briefings.

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

Seriously? The Daily Task Force Briefings.

Thanks. Do you links or dates on that data? The reason I ask is a google search reveals some hospitals claim they had to turn people away…not sure the duration of that state. Do you think the hospitals reports are mistaken?

[WildRose]

If that’s the case provide the links because that would disprove the claim.

Keep in mind we can actually get their daily bed counts… .

[lessright]

Yes seriously.

When did TF become the official acronym for Task Force?

I mean if you’re not part of the IC?

[WildRose]

At least as far back as WWII.

Task Force 145 (TF 145)

One pretty much everyone on the planet is familiar with, TF-145.

According to an April 28, 2006 Army Times article, TF 145 is headquartered at Balad Air Base and is "divided into four subordinate task forces in Iraq :

• Task Force West, organized around a SEAL Team 6 squadron with Rangers in support.
• Task Force Central, organized around a Delta squadron with Rangers in support.
• Task Force North, organized around a Ranger battalion combined with a small Delta element.
• Task Force Black, organized around a British Special Air Service “saber squadron,” with British paratroopers from the Special Forces Support Group in support."

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

If that’s the case provide the links because that would disprove the claim.

Keep in mind we can actually get their daily bed counts… .

Ok. Here’s one.

In what appears to be the first time a Boston ICU has reached capacity in the coronavirus pandemic, Boston Medical Center was treating so many patients who needed intensive care on Sunday that it had to stop accepting new patients into the ICU during the overnight hours, the hospital says.

BMC says that overnight Sunday, ambulances brought patients to other hospitals instead. By Monday, the hospital says, it was able to begin accepting ICU patients again.

[WildRose]

Ok so one ICU got near or to capacity for one night.

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

Ok so one ICU got near or to capacity for one night.

Yes, and they turned people away. I’m just reporting what I read which contradicted your “none”. Perhaps there are more, I don’t know.

[WildRose]

No, they simply directed them to other hospitals in Boston that weren’t in a crunch for ICU beds and staff and it was for one night out of precaution.

ICU beds are very limited in all hospitals because so few patients ever need one.

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

No, they simply directed them to other hospitals in Boston that weren’t in a crunch for ICU beds and staff and it was for one night out of precaution.

ICU beds are very limited in all hospitals because so few patients ever need one.

Agreed. Thats exactly what happened. Not sure what you are saying “no” to. You said not a single hospital was at max capacity. Obviously one was, albeit temporarily, and even turned people away. That’s the result of being at max capacity, that you send people to other hospitals.

[RTchoke]

Apparently that one temporary event was enough to cause great grief, strife and lamentations as the end being near.

[WildRose]

They never ran out of beds. They feared that if a large number of patients went bad quickly, they would be unable to move to where they needed to be for critical care in the ICU and the had a limited number of ventilators.

The Hospital never ran out of beds.

[Borgia_dude]

@WildRose

They never ran out of beds. They feared that if a large number of patients went bad quickly, they would be unable to move to where they needed to be for critical care in the ICU and the had a limited number of ventilators.

The Hospital never ran out of beds.

Ok. So when they had to stop accepting new patients that doesn’t mean they hit capacity. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. That seems a distinction without a difference.

Just to review, you said this, “ There isn’t a hospital anywhere in the US at max capacity.”