Wuhan Coronavirus

[CaptQuint]

Whoops

More than 30 Texas bars sue over Gov. Greg Abbott's recent shutdown order

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/more-t ... down-order

[Animal]

Whoops

More than 30 Texas bars sue over Gov. Greg Abbott's recent shutdown order

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/more-t ... down-order

yeah. their attorney said that abbott has no "science" to back up his ruling to close them. you know the texas bars opened at 25% occupancy in early may. they couldn't let people sit at the bar, no dancing, tables spaced out, no more than 6 per table, games areas shut down, etc. they didn't bump it up to 50% occupancy until mid June. and then right after that shut them down again.

[Stapes]

Houston nightclub...……..times that by a few thousand bars and nightclubs across the state. bububut the protestors.

[Animal]

Houston nightclub...……..times that by a few thousand bars and nightclubs across the state. bububut the protestors.

that was in tennessee you dumb fuck.

[CaptQuint]

After Gov. Abbott Ordered Bars to Close, Massive Crowds Still Packed Into Houston Nightclub Spire

https://houston.eater.com/2020/6/29/213 ... 9-pandemic

[CaptQuint]

[Stapes]

Just a hoax...there is no virus.....okay there is a virus but its the protestors.

This hoax certainly is straining the texas health system


https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/23 ... u-houston/

Coronavirus patients crowd some Texas ICUs as Gov. Greg Abbott touts "abundant" hospital capacity



Regionally, some hospital officials are reporting that intensive care units are near or over capacity, and local leaders have warned that hospitals could get overwhelmed if the number of infections keeps climbing.




As the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has reached record highs 12 days in a row, Gov. Greg Abbott and other health officials have stressed that the state has “abundant” capacity to care for them.
Statewide, there were 14,260 available hospital beds and nearly 1,500 intensive care unit beds as of Tuesday.
But regionally, some hospital officials are reporting that intensive care units — for seriously ill patients, like those on ventilators — are near or over capacity, and local leaders have warned that hospitals could get overwhelmed if the number of infections keeps climbing.
In the hard-hit Houston region, hospitals have begun moving coronavirus patients from crowded ICUs to other facilities. A local children’s hospital said this week it is admitting transfer patients, with and without the virus, to help other facilities manage their capacity.

“We appear to be nearing the tipping point,” Dr. Marc Boom, head of the Houston Methodist hospital system, wrote in an email to employees Friday. “Should the number of new cases grow too rapidly, it will eventually challenge our ability to treat both COVID-19 and non-COVID 19 patients."
Elsewhere, counties like Travis and Harris, which includes Houston, have eyed local convention centers or stadiums as temporary hospital overflow facilities — reviving plans mapped out early in the pandemic that were largely abandoned due to lack of need at the time.
The number of patients hospitalized with the virus in Texas has more than doubled since the beginning of the month, reaching 4,092 Tuesday. The figure began rising in early June, a month after Abbott let a stay-at-home order expire and allowed businesses to begin reopening.

Regional shortages

While large swaths of the state are not reporting surges in hospitalized coronavirus patients, health experts and local officials predict a coming crush in some urban areas if the growth in cases doesn’t slow down.
“What we had before was a ripple compared to what we're about to experience,” said Dr. David Persse, health authority for the Houston Health Department.
In the Houston region — which has seen one of the steepest increases in hospitalizations statewide — the Texas Medical Center anticipates intensive care unit capacity there could be surpassed in two weeks. Infectious disease expert Peter Hotez predicted over the weekend that Houston could become the “worst affected city” in the country and maybe rival Brazil, the world’s fastest-growing hot spot.
“We are stretched,” said Dr. Faisal Masud, director of the Critical Care Center at Houston Methodist. While the hospital is able to take COVID-19 patients from smaller facilities, if the upward trajectory continues, it, too, could become overwhelmed, Masud said.


As the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has reached record highs 12 days in a row, Gov. Greg Abbott and other health officials have stressed that the state has “abundant” capacity to care for them.
Statewide, there were 14,260 available hospital beds and nearly 1,500 intensive care unit beds as of Tuesday.
But regionally, some hospital officials are reporting that intensive care units — for seriously ill patients, like those on ventilators — are near or over capacity, and local leaders have warned that hospitals could get overwhelmed if the number of infections keeps climbing.
In the hard-hit Houston region, hospitals have begun moving coronavirus patients from crowded ICUs to other facilities. A local children’s hospital said this week it is admitting transfer patients, with and without the virus, to help other facilities manage their capacity.
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“We appear to be nearing the tipping point,” Dr. Marc Boom, head of the Houston Methodist hospital system, wrote in an email to employees Friday. “Should the number of new cases grow too rapidly, it will eventually challenge our ability to treat both COVID-19 and non-COVID 19 patients."
Elsewhere, counties like Travis and Harris, which includes Houston, have eyed local convention centers or stadiums as temporary hospital overflow facilities — reviving plans mapped out early in the pandemic that were largely abandoned due to lack of need at the time.
The number of patients hospitalized with the virus in Texas has more than doubled since the beginning of the month, reaching 4,092 Tuesday. The figure began rising in early June, a month after Abbott let a stay-at-home order expire and allowed businesses to begin reopening.

The governor struck a newly urgent tone Monday in a televised press conference to say COVID-19 was “spreading at an unacceptable rate” and that multiple metrics to gauge the virus’ spread and severity had significantly increased. Epidemiologists have attributed upticks in infections and hospitalizations to changes in behavior, including lax mask use and less social distancing.

Abbott spokesperson John Wittman said hospitals in Houston and Austin have been “emphatic” that beds will be available for coronavirus patients. He also said the governor has made clear that “he will utilize tools as necessary to ensure hospitals will provide beds for anyone who tests positive for COVID-19.”

“To be clear, in Houston, the percentage of beds occupied by COVID patients is currently 12.9%. In Austin, the percentage of beds occupied by COVID patients is 10.2%,” Wittman said.
Carrie Williams, a spokesperson for the Texas Hospital Association, also said Texas has enough hospital capacity, though she added that hospitalizations numbers are "definitely a concern."
“Right now we’re in good shape, but if this trend continues, it’s not sustainable,” she said.

“We were already quite full with people who need care, and now we’re adding big numbers of COVID-19 patients,” he said.
At Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, ICU patients exceeded bed capacity, and patients were temporarily moved to other units or to other hospitals, said a Harris Health System spokesperson. At Ben Taub Hospital, also in Houston, 76% of ICU beds were full as of Monday. Patients have been transferred from both facilities to other Houston hospitals, including St. Joseph Medical Center, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital, over the last week.
In Dallas County, where 470 coronavirus patients were in hospitals as of Tuesday, County Judge Clay Jenkins warned last week that “many more people will get sick and die in the coming weeks” if the numbers continue to rise.


Experts at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center forecast a coming wave of hospitalizations in North Texas before July 4. Hospitals in the North Texas region had more than 5,000 beds available as of late last week and can surge to around 8,500, according to Stephen Love, head of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council.

Meanwhile, the former county judge of Travis County said in an email obtained by The Texas Tribune that she hasn’t been able to get an answer on the capacity of the local private hospitals.
“Documentation from every major metropolitan area in the state shows an overall surge in cases since the Governor relaxed personal and business adaptations and removed almost all enforcement powers,” Sarah Eckhardt, an adviser to Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe, wrote in an email to Austin-area hospital officials. “We must plan for the increasing probability that more Central Texans will need hospital treatment than we have the current capacity to care for. Planning requires numbers. What is your capacity?”

[Stapes]

Houston nightclub...……..times that by a few thousand bars and nightclubs across the state. bububut the protestors.

that was in tennessee you dumb fuck.

nope, spire nightclub.....dumb fuck

[Animal]

Mr. Scaredy Pants is on the rampage again. Run for your shelters.

[CaptQuint]

Actually, I doubt this will be anything serious. That said, other than the mosquito caused tropical diseases (malaria- yellow fever, etc) that have plagued mankind for centuries to the present, almost every mass extinction epidemic going back to the early Roman Empire most certainly came from China. It's historically been because of their population. Go back to 500 BC, and China's population has always been a huge percentage of the World total. Trade with China during Roman times brought multiple epidemics over the centuries. The Bubonic Plague (Black Death) of the 14th century that wiped out 1/3 of the European population and probably higher in Asia was almost certainly caused by the century that the Mongols kept the "silk road" trade routes open and safe (think Marco Polo).The worst epidemic in World History was the 1918-1919 "Spanish flu" ( misnamed after the Spanish royal family suffered a high percentage of afflicted). Killed 680,000 Americans in just over a year and probably 50-80 Million world-wide. Almost certainly came from China.

[FreakShowFanatic]

Just a hoax...there is no virus.....okay there is a virus but its the protestors.

This hoax certainly is straining the texas health system


https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/23 ... u-houston/

Coronavirus patients crowd some Texas ICUs as Gov. Greg Abbott touts "abundant" hospital capacity



Regionally, some hospital officials are reporting that intensive care units are near or over capacity, and local leaders have warned that hospitals could get overwhelmed if the number of infections keeps climbing.

WTF Stapes? Do you want to rub it in some more? Pleeze dude, show some decency.


As the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has reached record highs 12 days in a row, Gov. Greg Abbott and other health officials have stressed that the state has “abundant” capacity to care for them.
Statewide, there were 14,260 available hospital beds and nearly 1,500 intensive care unit beds as of Tuesday.
But regionally, some hospital officials are reporting that intensive care units — for seriously ill patients, like those on ventilators — are near or over capacity, and local leaders have warned that hospitals could get overwhelmed if the number of infections keeps climbing.
In the hard-hit Houston region, hospitals have begun moving coronavirus patients from crowded ICUs to other facilities. A local children’s hospital said this week it is admitting transfer patients, with and without the virus, to help other facilities manage their capacity.

“We appear to be nearing the tipping point,” Dr. Marc Boom, head of the Houston Methodist hospital system, wrote in an email to employees Friday. “Should the number of new cases grow too rapidly, it will eventually challenge our ability to treat both COVID-19 and non-COVID 19 patients."
Elsewhere, counties like Travis and Harris, which includes Houston, have eyed local convention centers or stadiums as temporary hospital overflow facilities — reviving plans mapped out early in the pandemic that were largely abandoned due to lack of need at the time.
The number of patients hospitalized with the virus in Texas has more than doubled since the beginning of the month, reaching 4,092 Tuesday. The figure began rising in early June, a month after Abbott let a stay-at-home order expire and allowed businesses to begin reopening.

Regional shortages

While large swaths of the state are not reporting surges in hospitalized coronavirus patients, health experts and local officials predict a coming crush in some urban areas if the growth in cases doesn’t slow down.
“What we had before was a ripple compared to what we're about to experience,” said Dr. David Persse, health authority for the Houston Health Department.
In the Houston region — which has seen one of the steepest increases in hospitalizations statewide — the Texas Medical Center anticipates intensive care unit capacity there could be surpassed in two weeks. Infectious disease expert Peter Hotez predicted over the weekend that Houston could become the “worst affected city” in the country and maybe rival Brazil, the world’s fastest-growing hot spot.
“We are stretched,” said Dr. Faisal Masud, director of the Critical Care Center at Houston Methodist. While the hospital is able to take COVID-19 patients from smaller facilities, if the upward trajectory continues, it, too, could become overwhelmed, Masud said.


As the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has reached record highs 12 days in a row, Gov. Greg Abbott and other health officials have stressed that the state has “abundant” capacity to care for them.
Statewide, there were 14,260 available hospital beds and nearly 1,500 intensive care unit beds as of Tuesday.
But regionally, some hospital officials are reporting that intensive care units — for seriously ill patients, like those on ventilators — are near or over capacity, and local leaders have warned that hospitals could get overwhelmed if the number of infections keeps climbing.
In the hard-hit Houston region, hospitals have begun moving coronavirus patients from crowded ICUs to other facilities. A local children’s hospital said this week it is admitting transfer patients, with and without the virus, to help other facilities manage their capacity.
The Texas Tribune thanks its sponsors. Become one.


“We appear to be nearing the tipping point,” Dr. Marc Boom, head of the Houston Methodist hospital system, wrote in an email to employees Friday. “Should the number of new cases grow too rapidly, it will eventually challenge our ability to treat both COVID-19 and non-COVID 19 patients."
Elsewhere, counties like Travis and Harris, which includes Houston, have eyed local convention centers or stadiums as temporary hospital overflow facilities — reviving plans mapped out early in the pandemic that were largely abandoned due to lack of need at the time.
The number of patients hospitalized with the virus in Texas has more than doubled since the beginning of the month, reaching 4,092 Tuesday. The figure began rising in early June, a month after Abbott let a stay-at-home order expire and allowed businesses to begin reopening.

The governor struck a newly urgent tone Monday in a televised press conference to say COVID-19 was “spreading at an unacceptable rate” and that multiple metrics to gauge the virus’ spread and severity had significantly increased. Epidemiologists have attributed upticks in infections and hospitalizations to changes in behavior, including lax mask use and less social distancing.

Abbott spokesperson John Wittman said hospitals in Houston and Austin have been “emphatic” that beds will be available for coronavirus patients. He also said the governor has made clear that “he will utilize tools as necessary to ensure hospitals will provide beds for anyone who tests positive for COVID-19.”

“To be clear, in Houston, the percentage of beds occupied by COVID patients is currently 12.9%. In Austin, the percentage of beds occupied by COVID patients is 10.2%,” Wittman said.
Carrie Williams, a spokesperson for the Texas Hospital Association, also said Texas has enough hospital capacity, though she added that hospitalizations numbers are "definitely a concern."
“Right now we’re in good shape, but if this trend continues, it’s not sustainable,” she said.

“We were already quite full with people who need care, and now we’re adding big numbers of COVID-19 patients,” he said.
At Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, ICU patients exceeded bed capacity, and patients were temporarily moved to other units or to other hospitals, said a Harris Health System spokesperson. At Ben Taub Hospital, also in Houston, 76% of ICU beds were full as of Monday. Patients have been transferred from both facilities to other Houston hospitals, including St. Joseph Medical Center, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital, over the last week.
In Dallas County, where 470 coronavirus patients were in hospitals as of Tuesday, County Judge Clay Jenkins warned last week that “many more people will get sick and die in the coming weeks” if the numbers continue to rise.


Experts at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center forecast a coming wave of hospitalizations in North Texas before July 4. Hospitals in the North Texas region had more than 5,000 beds available as of late last week and can surge to around 8,500, according to Stephen Love, head of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council.

Meanwhile, the former county judge of Travis County said in an email obtained by The Texas Tribune that she hasn’t been able to get an answer on the capacity of the local private hospitals.
“Documentation from every major metropolitan area in the state shows an overall surge in cases since the Governor relaxed personal and business adaptations and removed almost all enforcement powers,” Sarah Eckhardt, an adviser to Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe, wrote in an email to Austin-area hospital officials. “We must plan for the increasing probability that more Central Texans will need hospital treatment than we have the current capacity to care for. Planning requires numbers. What is your capacity?”

[FreakShowFanatic]

OK Stapes, so what is the executive summary?

[Stapes]

OK Stapes, so what is the executive summary?

I just like to point out to the hypocrites who have been crying hoax since day one that they were wrong then, they are wrong now...and they will be wrong tomorrow.

[Animal]

Houston nightclub...……..times that by a few thousand bars and nightclubs across the state. bububut the protestors.

that was in tennessee you dumb fuck.

nope, spire nightclub.....dumb fuck

https://abc30.com/chase-rice-concert-br ... i/6280778/

no, stupid. its not. its a chase rice concert in Tennessee.

[FreakShowFanatic]

Meh, that virus is undoubtedly highly contagious and virulent. However, if you are wearing a mask I think chances are that you will be safe. When it comes down to the argument between Stape & Animal I have to admit my Jersey boy Stape won out but still, I think it's time for people to get back to work. You just need to have on the proper PPE.

Fuckin' Trump is still too dumb to know that but fuck him too, I never voted for him to begin with & I only got a bit of a hard on when he was raising the stock market up so much & thus my retirement funds. He's useless now and socially inept.

Sorry kids, we need to do better than him. Even as useless I think Biden is I think he can do better than Trump.

[CaptQuint]

[Stapes]

Houston nightclub...……..times that by a few thousand bars and nightclubs across the state. bububut the protestors.

that was in tennessee you dumb fuck.

nope, spire nightclub.....dumb fuck

https://abc30.com/chase-rice-concert-br ... i/6280778/

no, stupid. its not. its a chase rice concert in Tennessee.

Well that is pretty weird. the image I clicked on had "Crowded downtown Houston nightclub" and went to this link.

https://abc7.com/health/video-people-cr ... e/6279131/


but really neither here nor there.....

[Stapes]

Meh, that virus is undoubtedly highly contagious and virulent. However, if you are wearing a mask I think chances are that you will be safe. When it comes down to the argument between Stape & Animal I have to admit my Jersey boy Stape won out but still, I think it's time for people to get back to work. You just need to have on the proper PPE.

Fuckin' Trump is still too dumb to know that but fuck him too, I never voted for him to begin with & I only got a bit of a hard on when he was raising the stock market up so much & thus my retirement funds. He's useless now and socially inept.

Sorry kids, we need to do better than him. Even as useless I think Biden is I think he can do better than Trump.

I just like to give Flumper a little twist of the nipple because he has been so high and mighty and righteous in his arguments......meanwhile his state is getting ass fucked by the virus because they closed late and opened early and no leadership.

[Animal]

Well that is pretty weird. the image I clicked on had "Crowded downtown Houston nightclub" and went to this link.

https://abc7.com/health/video-people-cr ... e/6279131/


but really neither here nor there.....

imagine bad information on the internet. i would think the scissor lift in the picture would have tipped you off that it wasn't a picture taken inside a night club.

[Asagi_koi]

Just had a test done today. My son in law tested positive and my daughter has lost her sense of taste. We all spent fathers day on my boat together. Supposed to get results tomorrow.

[CaptQuint]

South Dakota gov says 'we will not be social distancing' at July 3 celebration at Mount Rushmore

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... l-n1232507

[CaptQuint]

Just had a test done today. My son in law tested positive and my daughter has lost her sense of taste. We all spent fathers day on my boat together. Supposed to get results tomorrow.

Your Son in law tested positive for a democratic hoax?

[FSchmertz]

Just had a test done today. My son in law tested positive and my daughter has lost her sense of taste. We all spent fathers day on my boat together. Supposed to get results tomorrow.

Did you wear masks?

That plus it was outdoors would lower your risk.

Hope it doesn't get you, and wishes for a safe recovery for daughter and son-in-law!

[FSchmertz]

Just had a test done today. My son in law tested positive and my daughter has lost her sense of taste. We all spent fathers day on my boat together. Supposed to get results tomorrow.

Your Son in law tested positive for a democratic hoax?

It's very contagious. Might result in a republican election loss as a side effect.

[FSchmertz]

I looked at this again. And then I looked at the picture of a crowded bar in Texas.

Guess what. The folks in this protest photo appear to be wearing masks (at least most).

The bar? Nada.