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If y'all are curious about our local situation I can sum it up in three words: shit is fucked.
Usually in hospital we get a bit of a holiday lull where things cool down due to everyone being away or what have you. This year that didn't really exist. Xmas eve was a steady stream of people. Xmas day the numbers were sort of low (40's) but anyone who was there was very sick and thus it felt busy. Boxing day, numbers doubled (80's) and we got slammed with a wall of people. The next 5 days were perhaps the worst I've ever seen our emergency dept get.
We had hallway patients absolutely everywhere in order to help all the people coming in. Ambulance entrance, packed. Hallway in front of elevators, packed. Hallways in front of other rooms, packed. Numbers were in the 80's all week long and yesterday on NYE we went above 90's. I was on a 8-day week so I witnessed all of it. We were seriously on the brink of collapse. Had there been any sort of mass casualty event, we simply would not have been able to cope. Oh and, I should also mention Paramedics weren't allowed to leave, they had to babysit the patients they brought in because there wasn't enough beds/nurses to care for these people. That's yet another thing I've never seen occur in my entire career.
It's bad and there doesn't seem to be much more we can do about it. This year seriously is the trifecta of infections (Covid, Flu, RSV) that is fucking shit up. That's on top of all the other serious conditions people come into emergency to begin with. Lots of sick kids and the elderly (70's-90's). There's plenty of young adults in there too.
It's not too late to get your flu shot and covid boosters. Do yourselves a favour and get vaccinated. The trickle down effect will also help out your local hospitals.
^^^ how's the Coronas? Or just other random injuries, partying, oding? what would you say will help the situation? Are they hiring more staff after all that talk on health care spending? Or doing nothing again.
How many people that show up actually need to be there as well
Our friend manages interior health and she said all the Covid admissions were like zero when it’s a sunny Saturday, or a stat holiday. But then, as noted above, the day after Christmas people figure ehh time for the hospital!
Can’t wait till shit is still terrible in 10 years heheh
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i'm lucky i didn't get taken down harder by covid... this almost a whole 12 months later since the third booster too. Soon as i had loss of smell & taste i knew it was covid
if possible.. get you're forth. sounds like a Wave of infections during the holiday season and people might be passing it systemically showing no sickness.
they say vitamins don't help but it felt like it gave me energy. vitamin k2 + d3. 1000mg vitamin C. 3000mg turmeric. 900mg of omega-3.
drank those booster plus drinks one or two times. but Gatorade blue was a huge game changer on drinking liquids.
normal lean chicken protein for dinner and lunch too.. not eatting anything your asking for it to get worst imo.
There are a fairly high amount of covid cases coming in. lots of people 60-90+ getting infected and are unable to cope with their symptoms. It isn't the odd injuries and young idiots that are clogging up the system. Do they still show up? yes, but they are nowhere near first or second priority. Cardiac arrests, struggling cancer patients, heart/kidney failure, diabetes complications etc. There are so many things people come in for beyond "partiers" and "druggies".
There's also more and more urgent primary care centers opening up to deal with the less severe things. despite that, there is still shortages in staffing. again, it isn't a simple matter of hiring more people. students are graduating at a finite rate and existing staff would rather choose less demanding assignments. also, large majority of nurses are NOT trained to work in emergency. further education and training is required and it's a much more stressful environment to work in.
Lots and lots of issues when it comes to nursing. I only know tip of the iceberg from what I see and hear.
When I got Coronas I think losing smell only happened a day or so after I started getting a dry throat. At that time when I tested I was barely positive, it was like 12 min in before the second line showed up and I thought I was clear.
... Are they hiring more staff after all that talk on health care spending? Or doing nothing again.
Talked to a guy about 2 weeks ago. An RN in the Philippines. Currently working locally as care aid. Bust his butt to meet all the requirements for a Jan 2023 start to the 1 year program that prepares him for the NCLEX.
In 1 years time, you will have your nurse, but will then need to find another care aid to fill the void.
Heard on the news this morning there's some new China variant that's already going around in the state's
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For all the recent concern that a new Covid-19 threat could come from China’s ongoing surge, experts point out that XBB.1.5 appears to have arisen in the United States. It was first detected in New York and Connecticut in late October, according to GISAID, a global effort to catalog and track variants of the coronavirus.
Rapid tests continue to work, as do masks, and ventilation and filtration of indoor air, so even as the virus continues to evolve, there are still good ways to protect yourself from getting Covid-19.
“It doesn’t appear to be causing any more severe illness, and so I think that it’s a very different situation circulating today than had it been a year ago,” Osterholm said. “There’s so much more immunity in the population that I don’t think that it’s going to take off.”
Sonick is a genius. I won't go into detail what's so great about his post. But it's damn good!
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I was out today and seeing more people wearing masks than the last few months ... I think people are being more cautious. Yah, no one thinks we are going backwards to isolation but the occasional wearing of masks in public places with people you don't know is not necessarily an over reaction.
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what would you say will help the situation? Are they hiring more staff after all that talk on health care spending? Or doing nothing again.
