My Doctor husband came home crying yesterday

[Anonymous]

in software, we are required to have redundant systems for critical apps. this is tested, money is spent

why does our health care delivery system have no redundant systems???

why is it based on profit?

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I am hearing reports from doctor friends that they are overwhelmed and massively under prepared.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, would they be able to use the N95 masks? Amazon has them, I can donate some.

They now might be able to use them, but before the past few days, they were prohibited from using those masks per Federal law.

Huh? My doctor friend has been using her N95 mask while seeing patient for several days now.

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The martyrdom in this thread is sad. If you weren't the type of person to express gratitude to all service people, from the delivery person to the Dr to our military and teachers, you will never be grateful, until you desperately need them.

Please be gracious. ICU nurse and shopper delivery poster should apologize to eachother here. Say one kind thing and wish eachother continued health. It's anonymous, no shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The martyrdom in this thread is sad. If you weren't the type of person to express gratitude to all service people, from the delivery person to the Dr to our military and teachers, you will never be grateful, until you desperately need them.

Please be gracious. ICU nurse and shopper delivery poster should apologize to eachother here. Say one kind thing and wish eachother continued health. It's anonymous, no shame.

Agreed.

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Anonymous wrote:The Hopkins coronavirus map shows 71 positive cases in the district and another 107 in Maryland and 105 in Virginia. Are we really overwhelmed already?

Because we can't test!! The true estimate is probably 100x times that.

I’d guess 5-10 x

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Our hospitals are fine with it?

I hope you’re including NY area hospitals in “our” since it IS part of the US.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been monitoring ER wait times at the inova hospitals in NOVA (https://www.inova.org/emergency-room-wait-times) for the past two weeks and they've remained consistent. My assumption is that the system is still working fine if ERs are moving people in and out. Is that not the case?

I don't know about that one, but there was an ER wait time tracker I was following a few weeks ago, until I realized that the times were identical day after day. Not actually tracking isht.

DP. Confirming: these wait times haven't changed in weeks https://www.hospitalstats.org/ER-Wait-Time/Washington-DC-Metro.htm

Hospital - Total Wait Times
Sibley Memorial Hospital 3h 4m
George Washington Univ Hospital 3h 31m
Georgetown University Hospital 3h 50m
Washington Hospital Center 4h 16m
Howard University Hospital 4h 23m
Providence Hospital 5h 8m
United Medical Center 5h 44m
Children's Hospital Nmc N/A

Wow. Is that average wait time? Over 5 hours?

Thankful for doctors/nurses/techs who are so busy. I was expecting them to have spiked to 10 -12 hours at this point.

that website says clearly at the top:
"Coronavirus Alert: Wait times are statistical averages and may not reflect current wait times during the pandemic."

it also lists providence hospital, which i believe has been closed.

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I'm a nurse: Let's be nice to the nurses, delivery people, and randoms. Let's not spend time stirring up contests of suffering. If an MD got home from work and CRIED, sounds like there's a problem. Let's spend energy toward finding solutions. We are all in this together. Am I the only one who is realizing this in a new way?

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The fist waves of this virus are already here and our hospitals are....doing fine with it. Look about what is actually happening as opposed to waiting for the worst to happen. The virus is here and it is already happening.

Hospitals are doing fine with it because many patients are temporarily staying away from hospitals. ER visits aren’t down 20% (per my boss). Plus, some of our ER visits are patients coming for bloodwork before an elective surgery (which are now all cancelled). Eventually many people will be sick enough that they can’t avoid the hospitals. If a surge of people flood the ER at once, we won’t be able to handle it.

[Anonymous]

To OP God bless your husband. My DH went to the hospital today for a scheduled chemo treatment. He’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. I am so truly grateful for his health care workers. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Its only going to get worse as many are not taking it seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday my co-worker said his wife, a nurse at a hospital in Fairfax County, said she said nothing is happening there yet.

It’s highly dependent on the type of unit you work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've been monitoring ER wait times at the inova hospitals in NOVA (https://www.inova.org/emergency-room-wait-times) for the past two weeks and they've remained consistent. My assumption is that the system is still working fine if ERs are moving people in and out. Is that not the case?

I don't know about that one, but there was an ER wait time tracker I was following a few weeks ago, until I realized that the times were identical day after day. Not actually tracking isht.

DP. Confirming: these wait times haven't changed in weeks https://www.hospitalstats.org/ER-Wait-Time/Washington-DC-Metro.htm

Hospital - Total Wait Times
Sibley Memorial Hospital 3h 4m
George Washington Univ Hospital 3h 31m
Georgetown University Hospital 3h 50m
Washington Hospital Center 4h 16m
Howard University Hospital 4h 23m
Providence Hospital 5h 8m
United Medical Center 5h 44m
Children's Hospital Nmc N/A

Wow. Is that average wait time? Over 5 hours?

Thankful for doctors/nurses/techs who are so busy. I was expecting them to have spiked to 10 -12 hours at this point.

that website says clearly at the top:
"Coronavirus Alert: Wait times are statistical averages and may not reflect current wait times during the pandemic."

it also lists providence hospital, which i believe has been closed.

Have you never been to an emergency room before? It's normal for wait times to be hours and hours. i was in the emergency room an entire day once with one of my kids, just to lance a boil.

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1241104758406086656

I guess officials like this are just running around trying to address shortfalls for the pure fun of it.