07-09-2020, 04:03 PM
Gotta love the experts who point to a low fatality rate as if covid survivors could bounce back to health just like flu survivors. That we don't refer to people recovered from the flu as survivors shows you the difference between flu and covid...
(Of note, there are several cases of Olympic or pre-elite athletes contracting this disease, and they are reporting very long recovery times before they can return to training.)
I keep tabs on Houston because I have family there (one doctor) and am adjacent. Their sustainable surge capacity was helped when Texas Children's opened up their facility to adult patients. The last of the granular data reporting showed that there were twelve days before sustainable surge capacity was exhausted and TMC would be moving into unsustainable surge capacity (not sure how fungible beds are between the different hospitals in TMC).
Shortly after that data was reported, there were...political consequences. The TMC CEOs put out a joint statement saying there was no reason to worry. I believe the governor got involved. TMC has revised their verbiage and changed their charts such that neutral words and blue/gray color schemes now dominate despite the same data being presented.
The message was clear: don't make this state look bad. Mayor Sylvester Turner just yesterday ordered next week's in-person GOP state convention to be canceled. All the prominent keynote speakers had decided to deliver their address via teleconference anyway (ha!). Today, the state GOP has filed a lawsuit against the city of Houston.
Thankfully, TMC bed usage is still within the sustainable surge capacity and their curve might be bending ever so slightly right now. It's perhaps not an entirely good sign: An increase in people dying at home suggests coronavirus deaths in Houston may be higher than reported
Tulsa is seeing an uptick in cases as well, and authorities are pointing to the late June political rally as a likely cause. Houston should fight hard to ensure that the same thing doesn't happen in Texas.
(Of note, there are several cases of Olympic or pre-elite athletes contracting this disease, and they are reporting very long recovery times before they can return to training.)
I keep tabs on Houston because I have family there (one doctor) and am adjacent. Their sustainable surge capacity was helped when Texas Children's opened up their facility to adult patients. The last of the granular data reporting showed that there were twelve days before sustainable surge capacity was exhausted and TMC would be moving into unsustainable surge capacity (not sure how fungible beds are between the different hospitals in TMC).
Shortly after that data was reported, there were...political consequences. The TMC CEOs put out a joint statement saying there was no reason to worry. I believe the governor got involved. TMC has revised their verbiage and changed their charts such that neutral words and blue/gray color schemes now dominate despite the same data being presented.
The message was clear: don't make this state look bad. Mayor Sylvester Turner just yesterday ordered next week's in-person GOP state convention to be canceled. All the prominent keynote speakers had decided to deliver their address via teleconference anyway (ha!). Today, the state GOP has filed a lawsuit against the city of Houston.
Thankfully, TMC bed usage is still within the sustainable surge capacity and their curve might be bending ever so slightly right now. It's perhaps not an entirely good sign: An increase in people dying at home suggests coronavirus deaths in Houston may be higher than reported
Tulsa is seeing an uptick in cases as well, and authorities are pointing to the late June political rally as a likely cause. Houston should fight hard to ensure that the same thing doesn't happen in Texas.