Local ICU Capacity Declines as COVID-19 Cases Increase

sadly I think you are right, but hope you are wrong. but I feel the same.

this goes for that, and the flood of people at the beginning saying this was just the flu. I wish all those people had to answer to their idiotic statements 14 months ago, NOW. but nooooooo, we just let them continue undermining the health and safety of everyone.

14 months ago... as in October 2019?

Fire up the amateur hour.

I spent some time trying to make sense of that sentence... “The decrease in the county's ICU availability doesn't necessarily reflect the number of available beds, but also the decrease in staffing availability.” Didn't get very far. I can't wrap my head around what they were trying to say, without acknowledging or explaining the depletion of 20 (28 total) ICU beds.

No staff for an empty ICU bed means no available ICU bed. Once staffed, it can be counted as an available.

7:45 PM:
I don't think you understand the severity of the pandemic.
Do you think 335,000 deaths in the USA alone are faked?
International death totals are faked?
Other countries are in on the conspiracy?
Too little thinking behind such a comment.

Exactly, Yacht. They may have the actual beds in the ICU, but the beds might not be available for patients due to insufficient staff. It could have been worded more clearly.

Nobody's going around with a cart calling for you to "Bring out yer dead" yet, so we can't possible be in a crisis. What an idiotic attitude.

This way of thinking is why we are still here. Locked down. No forethought whatsoever. Purely selfish, “only my needs matter” people can’t look ahead past their noses and realize that until we all work together, we’re going to be stuck with rising ICU numbers and sick people. It’s amazing to me too because it’s mostly out of “I want to sit in a restaurant have my burger” versus empathy for actual restaurant owners and employees. If we could squash this virus we could all go back to normal. But too many people care more about living THEIR lives, than living collectively as a society. Sucks.

Who are you? And why do you keep posting the same thing?

The clueless people with the anti-shutdown/anti-mask selfish attitudes always post the same old thing.

And also how many staff traveling to overwhelmed hospitals to assist.

I'm pretty sure if a shortage in staffing was occurring that it would be front page news. We are deep in sensationalized news... shortage in staffing would be front and center, not just inferred or hinted at. What happened to all the field hospitals that popped up at the beginning of the pandemic? The ones that were never used? All the nurses and medical students that traveled to New York and New Jersey that just ended up sitting in hotels with nothing to do? Where are they?

Mountainman I have zero respect for you or your amateurish, low information uninformed opinions. Maybe just stop replying to me. It's people like you that make me sad for the future of our country. People so hard-core in their political truth they ignore reality. At least you are amusing to yourself.
Meanwhile Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital in Los Angeles is shoving patients into the gift store and the chapel because they are overwhelmed.

No one brought up politics GT, maybe they’re not the ones so hard core into their political truth they’re ignoring reality?

335k dead, bro, where are they?

mountain man sorry to jump in the fray, but yeah. its been front page reported on. hell nurses in sweeden are quiting.

just do some googling before putting your foot in your mouth next time.

GT: So Ruiz is admitting that an adjustment was made because someone miscounted and overestimated the available ICU bed that could be staffed and prepped, and this decrease wasn't because of staff recently testing positive and being taken out of circulation. I guess that makes a lot of people here very wrong. Thanks for clearing that up.

And they reserve some beds for other patients so it is hard to get a handle on what is actually happening. Although some numbers show total beds. Hospitals in LA are turning away critical patients. Remember how the Repubs in the 90s warned us about death panels and care rationing? They just didn't say that it would be them that would instigate it.

12:06 AM - You're so used to jumping to the conclusion you want to see that you failed to comprehend the meaning of the Ruiz statement. How, from what was stated, can you conclude that the staffing problem was not caused by COVID infection of staff? Sorry if English isn't your primary language, but you should not be so smug if you're unsure of what is being said.

Only. 20% is only? I like your pollyanna thinking. ()

CSF it's still strange that they would be waiting this long to make the adjustment, but then again it is the county we are talking about.

Right PITMIX? 10 months in, 20% of the infections are in the last two weeks is good...how?

CSF Not sure how 20% of all SB healthcare workers in the past 14 days could give anyone a rosy outlook. But I do appreciate you posting those numbers as that is not something I look at in my daily scan of the cases/ICU etc. My original question about the reduction of the number of available beds was sincere - the first things that came to mind were that some had been infected, or some had travelled to other regions to assist. And it was confusing that the county made this adjustment as it is hard to tell whether this is from new data, or if they didn't have the workers all along.

Up to 852 HCW infected today. At 9 a day, each out for only two weeks if they're lucky, we don't have a lot of time or staff left to sacrifice with our selfish behavior. We should all be doing what we can to avoid infection; masks, shutdowns, and physical distancing are the weapons that work against the virus.

I'll think the healthcare providers aren't in trouble when *they* say so, not when some peanut gallery types say so.