Florida and Texas desperately trying to transfer COVID patients to hospitals in western Pennsylvania.... but DeSantis still says Florida doesn't have a COVID problem and won't institute an emergency order or even take proper public health safety measures. Out-of-state covid hot spots ‘desperate’ to transfer patients to Western Pa. hospitals https://triblive.com/news/health-no...to-transfer-patients-to-western-pa-hospitals/ Overburdened health care systems from Texas to Florida are pleading with Western Pennsylvania hospitals to take on transfer patients at record-high rates as beds and ventilators reach capacity in covid-19 hot spots across the country. “They’re running out of space, and they’re looking for help in trying to deal with some of those patients,” Highmark Health CEO David Holmberg told the Tribune-Review by phone Thursday afternoon. Dr. Donald Whiting, chief medical officer of Highmark’s medical provider arm, Allegheny Health Network, said that this past Saturday and Sunday the health system experienced a “busy weekend for regional and national referral requests.” The 14-hospital system headquartered in Downtown Pittsburgh has been fielding a surge in transfer requests from physicians in states where coronavirus cases and deaths are proliferating, including Oklahoma, Florida and North Carolina. Many patients have severe health needs other than covid, but they cannot be treated where they live because local facilities are full or lack sufficient resources or staffing. “We’re seeing brain tumors and heart attacks in patients that normally would stay in the community where they live, but they can’t because their community is feeling the effect of that (covid) surge,” said Dr. Maggie Thieman, medical director of AHN’s physician-to-physician transfer and referral center. “As covid numbers rise, those patients take up the beds of patients who are suffering from something that has nothing to do with covid. It’s a domino effect.” Thieman described a recent influx in “desperate attempts to get patients moved to a facility that can meet even basic medical needs.” In one example, a health system near the Oklahoma and Kansas border already had contacted about 115 facilities in its region to transfer a patient in critical need before requesting help from Highmark’s Allegheny Health Network. All the other providers were either filled to capacity or closed to transfers across state lines. “This is alarming to us because communities far, far away are impacting us already, right now,” Thieman said. “The effects are more far-reaching this time than the first time around (in spring 2020).” Highmark executives boasted during a quarterly financial performance presentation Thursday that in many ways, Highmark Health is better prepared to withstand the pandemic, both clinically and financially, than it was prior to covid-19 striking Pennsylvania last March. “Our financials are strong and steady,” said Holmberg, “and we’re prepared to deal with the unknown.” (More at above url)
Plenty of MAGAtard Doctors and Pharmacists will hand out the prescription easily, why isn't DeathSantis distributing the miracle cure in Florida? He doesn't care about what actual doctors or scientists say. BBBBBut WHATABOUT FAUCI! WHATABOUT ILLEGALS! How did illegals cause surge in Florida and states like Mississippi? LMFAO Yes, because when it comes to brains, one thinks of Trump supporters high on horse dewormers.
DeSantis will never admit that he screwed up when he open Florida up to the tourist season in Florida as the Delta Variant was making roots in Florida...something that he was warned about. Everybody came from all over the United States along with exempt travel folks from Europe (rich people). I saw the images of the nightlife in Florida that started during their infamous spring break...it looked like the Mardi Gras. wrbtrader
Yup, they gonna wait out all the deaths and then pretend nothing bad happened and all the MAGAtards posturing here will repeat the same bullshit like clockwork. This is how cults work.
https://apple.news/A4QsgDpDoTkWCEguEDmOdWQ Four unvaccinated Florida teachers. Natural selection for the win. Epigenetic-stupidity is a thing.
Floridians, Does Ron DeSantis Want to Kill You or Does He Just Want You to Die? In the fight against the deadly coronavirus, it seems like Florida's governor has decided to side with Team COVID. https://www.theroot.com/floridians-does-ron-desantis-want-to-kill-you-or-does-1847459632 "According to the New York Times’ COVID tracker, the Sunshine State currently has more new COVID cases, more hospitalizations per day and more deaths per day than any other state or territory in the nation."
Keep this in mind if you see a "this week" (aka "previous week") death count for Florida. If the death didn't occur AND it's ruled Covid within the same week, then Florida just leaves it out of the "this week" numbers. DeSantis continually uses the "this week" numbers in his narrative instead of the total death numbers. Just another example of DeSantis using fake data to push his political points that COVID is not a problem in Florida.
President Houseplant and his commies in charge are bussing covid infected illegals all over America. Impeach this gritting pedo fucker. Nope IVM Still not easily accessible. Everyone knows about your pathetic ineffective gene therapy shots, though!! Take your booster in your fucking head, libtard. It will add mass to your brain.
How the fuck did these illegals get to Mississippi and spread covid? You are so lame and predictable. MOM! THE ILLEGALS DID IT AGAIN! THE BROWN AND THE BLACK ONES AGAIN! Then why isn't Deathsantis doing something about it if the cure works so well? Why the fuck do you inbreds keep complaining but never actually do something other than landing up in ICUs. OMG vaccine changes genes now! Maybe you should take it then, you may start growing a human brain for a change.
Another L in DeathSantis column “Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration signaled earlier this week that it would slash the pay of Florida school superintendents and school board members who defy the governor on school masks,” the Miami Herald reports. “But now — as two Florida districts, including Broward County Public Schools, remain defiant — the governor’s office is acknowledging the state has no control over local employees’ pay.