Xtreme87

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fo...KBTjsZMe9mBuYc

There’s the majority of your ‘second wave’. Imagine a virus so deadly that you have to fake the numbers to try to make it look worse than it is.

Flytolive

It sounds like they accidentally multiplied the positive rate by a factor of 10. Have you or Fox35Orlando figured out how they faked all those sick patients filling up the ERs?

Xtreme87

filling up? Last I heard was half of the ER’s in the state were 90% full. As opposed to 80% full on a normal July day.

Flytolive

Arizona, Florida, Texas Face Hospital Capacity

By Carolyn Crist

July 13, 2020 -- Hospitals are running out of space for COVID-19 patients in states in the South and West that have seen a recent surge in coronavirus cases, which means turning away ambulances, long waits in emergency departments and an overflow of morgues.In Texas, public health officials are warning about a “replay” of what happened in New York this spring when hospitals struggled to handle thousands of COVID-19 deaths, according to a special report byProPublica and NBC News.

Houston hospitals are treating COVID-19 patients in their emergency rooms as they wait for additional intensive care beds to open, and hospital staff have told emergency responders that they can’t accept new patients safely, the news outlets reported. A dozen of the city’s emergency departments have hit or neared capacity about three times as often as compared to the same time in 2019, and hospitals have diverted patients to other hospitals outside of Houston.

“We are adding more capacity, but we are absolutely stretched now, and if it keeps going this way, we’re going to run out of room. We’re going to look like New York,” Jamie McCarthy, MD, an executive vice president and emergency room physician at Memorial Hermann Health System, told the news outlets.

Florida hospitals are also facing capacity concerns. As of Sunday morning, more than 7,300 people are hospitalized for COVID-19, according to data from the state’s Agency of Health Care Administration. More than 50 hospitals are at max capacity and have no ICU beds available, according to WFLA, an NBC affiliate in Tampa.

Another 435 people were hospitalized overnight on Friday, the news station reported, marking a new record.

“You know, we’re putting ourselves at risk and other people aren’t willing to do anything and in fact go the other way and be aggressive to promote the disease. It’s really, it’s really hard,” Andrew Pastewski, MD, medical director of the ICU at Jackson South Medical Center in Miami, told Reuters.

Arizona hospitals are reaching capacity as well, and some have sent patients to other states, according to NPR. Several major hospital systems are in “emergency contingency mode,” the news outlet reported, and are bringing in hundreds of nurses from outside of the state for backup.
Abrazo Health in Phoenix has ordered refrigerated storage for overflow as morgues reach capacity, according to Fox 10 Phoenix. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office is also acquiring coolers and extra staff since the office is “currently near capacity for body storage,” the office told the news station.

Other states are preparing for hospital surges as the number of COVID-19 cases continue to increase in the South and West. The five largest hospitals in Mississippi ran out of ICU beds last week due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, according to the Associated Press.

“Mississippi hospitals cannot take care of Mississippi patients,” Thomas Dobbs, MD, the state health officer, told reporters on Thursday, according to the Mississippi Free Press.

Hospitals on the Gulf Coast, in particular, are worried about hurricane season and the combination of COVID-19 surges and a natural disaster.

“It’s going to be a New York situation,” Alan Jones, MD, a doctor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, said on Thursday. “We’re going to be in a parking lot trying to take care of people, and we can’t do it. And if a hurricane hits, I’m quitting.”
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD on July 13, 2020

contrails12

Pretty misleading thread title. There was a data anomaly that was resolved. Data was omitted not manufactured. The article doesn’t explain why. It was across tons of different labs so it’s doubtful there’d be that large of a conspiracy without anyone finding out.

if anything I think it’s reassuring that the system works. There was an error and it’s being corrected. The free press reported it. The only fraud here is the OPs thread title.

did you even read the article?

emersonbiguns

Using a positivity error to explain away infection rate is special.

SMH

pad39a

Considerable attention has been given to the question of if rising numbers of positive tests are a direct result of increased testing, or not. Failure to report negative test results significantly affects positivity numbers. Considering news outlets were full of “33% positivity in Florida” headlines a few days ago, the content of this news station’s report certainly has significance.

emersonbiguns

And the new case numbers don't.

And the dead people don't matter because they're old or fat.

The abject refusal to follow the lead of other educated, first world countries that cracked the code while Our Dear Leader was coloring is going to delay our recovery even further.

It'll all be better tomorrow...

Nacho Libre

Not to be a $&ck, but do you have a reading comprehension problem? The article clearly brings up there were errors in reporting, talks about correcting the reporting, (basically they didn’t send in the total number tested, total positive, and total negative, just total positive) and later in the article tells of the total case numbers sharply increasing followed by hospitalizations and increased deaths.

Kinda seems like you want there to be a conspiracy to spin this.

pad39a

I neither said nor suggested any of those things. I just said the report had significance. This report having significance does not remove significance from other things like case numbers, failed leadership, etc, so why the need to quickly jump down people’s throats?