Saturday, June 27th Radiogram page 1: An announcement on the Spring Ho website said the Spring Ho Committee, along with Lampasas County Local Health Authority Dr. Georgia Hay, County Judge Randy Hoyer and Lampasas Mayor Misti Talbert, “unanimously agreed that in the interest of the health and safety of our community” the 2020 Spring Ho festival is canceled.
Saturday, June 27th Radiogram page 4: “On Friday the state reported 12,398 available staffed beds which includes 1,284 staffed ICU beds. Dr Hay, the Lampasas County Health Authority, said that WE REALLY DON’T HAVE MANY HOSPITALIZATIONS…”
Wow. NOT MANY HOSPITALIZATIONS. Sounds super serious!
Not.
Like I’ve said all along: testing goes WAY up…number of positives goes up far less…and DEATHS are still plummeting.
But don’t take my word for it, listen to the guys who ACTUALLY run the hospitals:
Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told CNBC on Monday that the demographics of the outbreak have “flipped” and that the mostly-younger people arriving in the state’s hospitals often don’t require ICU beds.
“Even though we have about 200 more patients in house, about double, we only have about three or four more people in the ICU, so that’s encouraging.”
Boom reiterated his comments from last week that the number of hospitalizations are “being misinterpreted, and, quite frankly, we’re concerned that there is a level of alarm in the community that is unwarranted right now.”
“We do have the capacity to care for many more patients, and have lots of fluidity and ability to manage,” Boom said.
He pointed out that his hospital one year ago was at 95% ICU capacity, similar to the numbers the hospital is seeing today.
“It is completely normal for us to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s and 90s,” he said.
“That’s how all hospitals operate.”
Of course, all of these FACTS don’t stop morons like Bruce Haywood and Karen Spivey-Cummings from running around like Chicken Little yammering that “ICU beds are at 95% capacity!!!”. This is because they know absolutely nothing about how hospitals are operated. I would expect DOCTOR Georgia Hay to know better.