Nevermind answering my last post to you. I looked up the numbers myself.
As of September 2nd there are a total of 310 hospitalizations in the state of Iowa. Of those hospitalizations, 87 are in ICU and 39 on ventilators.
There are 740 new cases and 633 recoveries today along with 4 deaths.
But thanks for your invalid fear mongering.
Dude, Your misreading my intent. Here you go, straight from MGMC medical staff->
A statement from Dr. Barry a physician at MGMC:
I am a hospitalist physician at Mary Greeley, and I cover the ICU. We have 13 beds in our ICU. I do not know how many ICU ventilators the hospital owns. I believe it is 7, but regardless of the number, the hospital has a contract to rent additional ventilators if they are needed. Within the last couple of weeks, the hospital has used all of its ventilators at times. It is very unusual to need that many ventilators, and the high occupancy and severity of illness in the ICU has been a significant burden on staff.
For the past 6-8 weeks, Mary Greeley has hospitalized ~8-12 SARS-CoV-2 patients per day. On any given day, about half are in the ICU, half are on the floor.
More concerning is that within the last couple of weeks, major medical centers in Sioux Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport, have been temporarily on ICU diversion. This means that they could not accept ICU transfers from surrounding communities. Waterloo has been on diversion for general medical patients and ICU patients, and they have temporarily halted elective medical procedures (again). I don’t believe the University of Iowa has been on ICU diversion, but they have been holding medical admissions in their ER for 3 days. UIHC is always busy, but this is unheard of. All of these numbers are certainly unexpected for August in Iowa.
You should know that the state is reporting surge capacity beds and ventilators when they report availability/capacity. Mary Greeley has the ability to convert general medical beds into ICU beds, and to scavenge ventilators from the OR, but we would be in a bind to find staff to care for these patients. Critical access hospitals could also create ICU beds, but no one would recommend ICU care in that setting.
I don’t believe any of the information I shared is privileged. The information I shared about other hospital systems is information that is being shared on Iowa clinician social media groups. I share it because the anti-science, conspiracy theory, misinformation really seems to be ramping up this week. The state of Iowa is currently in a very bad position with the virus.