"For the first time in 17 years that I've been here, we've had to put patients in hallway beds," Casey told CNN's Erin Burnett. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html

I know six people who are currently positive. One of them has now been in the hospital for 13 days. The others have mild to moderate symptoms.

Not fighting with anyone just reporting what is happening in the Green Bay area.

Brian

If I was an administrator of a hospital I would want my hospital full. Most businesses have a goal of having 100% occupancy. I believe that we would have been through this if we had not shut down and locked down everything. If they lock you all down again there will be more deaths by drug abuse and suicide than by covid. All it does is slow things down and draw it out longer. Hiding will not get us through this. Living through it will. LLL

There was an article in the local paper here a few weeks ago, saying how the county coroner's office case load has doubled since last year. The reason is not COVID-19 deaths, but an enormous rise in the number of people who are dying at home without seeking medical attention by calling an ambulance or going to the hospital when they need to.

What I think is that when it first broke out and they (not sure who they is) shut the country down , a lot of places didn't even have any cases and everyone quit going to to the doctor and virtually shut the hospitals down for no need. And now here it is raging and everyone acts as if its full speed ahead. Its hard to operate right with one size fits all.

But on the other hand what difference does any type of prevention make when people are going to do what they want anyway?

A lot of good posts.

Too bad there isn't a simple solution.

Green Bay- with the way things are in your county, I doubt we'll be seeing fans at Lambeau anytime soon

"The list of doctors joining the letter includes emergency room doctors, surgeons, oncologists, family practitioners, radiologists, rheumatologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists and psychiatrists".

so why would COVID overwhelm surgeons, oncologists & rheumatologists?

political?

(the others, I can see the relationship).

It's gotten no better in the past week

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wisconsi...ics-is-partially-to-blame-143650745.html

Did you expect it to just go POOF and disappear in a week? It won't get better for a while. That article is dowsed in politics as is the majority of this situation. Our hospitals are full too...I've had to call up to four hospitals a night for a transfer. The majority of people with Covid still aren't falling over dead.

It's too bad it got politicized.

Trapping should be a great way to socially distance this winter.

According to the epidemiologists around the world, deaths from covid will surge in November and December-and all their predictions have been spot on so far.

Influenza season is just around the corner Boco.

The thing I think this Covid-19 has at least done is shined some light on mankind that we aren't invisible. People die from viruses every year. They tend to really get started in the fall. It would make sense to "predict" an increase in cases at this time of the year. We tend to stay borderline busy over the summer and then we are ran ragged every fall. That's just how healthcare works as long as I've been doing it. The general public just never notices because it's not usually plastered across every news station in the country every year.