I had the same questions. But having worked for a VA Medical Center before, I knew there had to be a lot of governmental protocols.
That is very sad. It sounds like she had a history of asthma and other respiratory illnesses. She died a medical hero, who no doubt saved others’ lives. May she RIP. ❤
Thanks for taking the time to share these, I read them both and remember lots of articles like that but no matter how closely I look they are all evasive of the root cause. To me it does make sense they would not want to invite the infection that has ravaged ships onto a ship, that would have been a horrendous error so it's completely reasonable they only wanted non-covid patients. Both articles do mention dhow the patients need to go through a standing hospital and then be transferred to one of the boats as if they were within the hospital network so I still think these sorts of comments support that this has all to do with the benjamins, the hospital administrators said they wanted help but they really wanted fed money to make more money and when they got help instead of money they got boxed into a corner. (Notice I am not at all lumping nurses or Dr's into this, I think they genuinely wanted help in the form of extra hands). Played out like when you give a homeless person with a sign asking for lunch a sandwich and they get mad, the sign says they want lunch but what they want is a $20 for something else. Early on there were conversations about how many of the most stricken hospitals were all in the red before this and later when there was a push to reopen I was reading all the complaints from hospital administrators about how the stalling of elective procedures (gravy) was ruining the bottom line so we needed to get those back up and running. Now I get that these facilities require funding but in a crisis you need to put things aside and do the math later, that's in the oath, too bad administrators don't need to take an oath.
I don’t think things will totally shut down again, but I can definitely see a need for tighter restrictions.
Interesting thing I learned this morning about Wisconsin numbers. They only count the first test result for a person in the number of tests. So my son was tested in June, his test came back negative and was counted as a negative test then. If he gets tested again and comes back negative, he will not count in the total number. If he tests positive, he will count as a positive test but not in the general number of tests. So while numbers are coming back higher, they are not as high as what the Governor would like you to believe.
Yeah, there are several ways to count test results, and of course any possible alternatives can lead to politicizing of results.
Except when you are using positivity rate as a benchmark. By taking more and more tests out of the pool of returned tests it is artificially increasing the positivity rate. To take it an extreme, I'm a member of an Indian tribe in WI. If they test everyone on the reservation, say 2,000 people and get 100 positive results that would be a 5% positivity rate, the next week they test the same 2,000 people plus one more and get five positive cases, that would be a 500% positivity rate.
