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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?

If those wait times are accurate everyone should go to Inova in fairfax county. Wait times are like 15 minutes consistently.

The website says 3 hours for INOVA Fairfax.

Yeah, plus the wait time is not consistently 15min. We’ve been to that eR several times and we’ve always waited longer than that.

My sister's best friend's husband is an ER doc in MD. They are that overwhelmed. And in fact he was already exposed and the whole family is in quarantine. You can ask Jeff whether I'm a "Russian troll" or any kind of troll... my post history should speak for itself.

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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?

If those wait times are accurate everyone should go to Inova in fairfax county. Wait times are like 15 minutes consistently.

The website says 3 hours for INOVA Fairfax.

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Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like your DH is exhausted and overworked - and is therefore reacting more severely to what he anticipates is going to happen. Your title was a bit misleading. I was expecting for you to say that the dead are beginning to pile up, which is not the case YET.

+1000

This is the attitude causing mass hysteria. People in modern times cannot handle any sort of novel virus. That combined with SOCIAL MEDIA and the unprecedented HATRED towards our president has fueled this over the top reaction! Right away they think of bubonic plague wiping out half the human race. Currently the death rate in China from this virus is 0.000203% of their population! And has come to a screeching halt pretty much with the precautions taken now. I believe rational thinking is deteriorating more and more everyday.

Disagree with both of you. The media is reporting numbers of diagnoses, but not giving us a play-by-play of what is actually happening in hospitals. Testing is so f-up that the numbers media reports are much lower, leading to a false sense of security. OP is providing a public service, giving people the truth that will hopefully change behavior. There is no "mass hysteria" just people like you in denial because you don't understand the science of infections.

Also, there is unprecedented hatred for our president because we've never had one so despicable. The media reports truthfully on his word, action, and deed. Those of us with a moral compass make our own judgements. I'm sorry you have none.

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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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Ny has been testing several thousand people a day since early this week. Mortality rate .7 percent there.

If we estimate the dmv population at 6 million, then 0.7% is 42,000 deaths.

No model assumes 100 percent of population will get virus.

The ca gov projects 25 of 40 million will.

You’re cool with potentially 20,000 plus dying in the dmv?

That is a worse case scenario model, unlikely to come to pass.

We're getting really close to worst case scenario if everybody says "listen, I'm going at a 4 in a 1 to 5 scale of social distancing, OK? Back off, this is 'Merica".

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Please consider reporting to WaPo so they can broadcast the rationing of gear, etc. The media is instrumental in moving public opinion and politicians’ actions.

Yes, get the media involved. This hospital in GA is sewing covers for the masks. The mask can be used all day and the cover is changed and washable. I'm happy to sew some if they share the pattern. I think they are using surgical sheeting.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/volunteers-stitch-masks-health-care-workers-69681106

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Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like your DH is exhausted and overworked - and is therefore reacting more severely to what he anticipates is going to happen. Your title was a bit misleading. I was expecting for you to say that the dead are beginning to pile up, which is not the case YET.

Oh fck off

-another spouse of a dr

Agreed, another spouse of a doctor.

My spouse's hospital is still doing elective surgeries and the nurses, anesthesiologists and others do not have N95 masks appropriate for the risk these days.

I understand being low on PPE, but elective surgeries???? WTF, you are risking nurses and others getting sick right before you will really need them!

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Anonymous wrote:Which state does he work? I take it things are much worse than the number of positive tests show?

He’s local—in the DMV. Stated in the first post.

I have no idea if this helps but in my ACE they had plenty of the carbon filter masks that can be safely reused. Can his hospital buy some of those? I bet the ACE's throughout the area probably have lots.

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?

Our hospital has a tent set up outside for screening Covid. They are not going through the ER.

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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.

Still calm before the storm at Hospital where my dh works as well. I suspect op is one of the dcum trolls trying to whip up hysteria.

For every story like OP’s, you can find one where another doctor thinks it’s not too bad. It is what it is.

So does it have to be bad everything before you believe it? WTF with this post you wrote?

Does every doctor in every hospital need to be freaking out before you open your eyes?

It isn’t yet as bad here as some other places in the country, and it’s not yet as bad there as in some other countries, sorry that your morbid fascination with people dying in great numbers hasn’t yet come to pass.

OP,

Please consider reporting to WaPo so they can broadcast the rationing of gear, etc. The media is instrumental in moving public opinion and politicians’ actions.

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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.

Still calm before the storm at Hospital where my dh works as well. I suspect op is one of the dcum trolls trying to whip up hysteria.

For every story like OP’s, you can find one where another doctor thinks it’s not too bad. It is what it is.

So does it have to be bad everything before you believe it? WTF with this post you wrote?

Does every doctor in every hospital need to be freaking out before you open your eyes?

Just received an update from my brother who’s a hospitalist in Brooklyn. Really, really bleak. Plus lots of young patients really sick.

SO the people that are overwhelming the hospitals now are not included in the local totals we are seeing?

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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?

This virus increases exponentially. New York now has over 5700 cases!

Ny has been testing several thousand people a day since early this week. Mortality rate .7 percent there.

If we estimate the dmv population at 6 million, then 0.7% is 42,000 deaths.

No model assumes 100 percent of population will get virus.

The ca gov projects 25 of 40 million will.

You’re cool with potentially 20,000 plus dying in the dmv?

That is a worse case scenario model, unlikely to come to pass.