ST Alpha - "Hospital ICUs were full, patients couldn't be moved, because other hospitals were also full." (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Login
Create Account

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 152

In response to "New Orleans: No power due to “catastrophic transmission damage” to Entergy facilities -- (link)" by Remlik

Hospital ICUs were full, patients couldn't be moved, because other hospitals were also full.

Posted by TWuG Aug 29 '21, 18:33

Thanks to unvaccinated people with Covid. Now the ventilators aren't working and staff are manually ventilating patients.

Responses:

I agree with Z, there should be back up generators. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Aug 29, 20:27
They are supposed to have back up generators, during Katrina a lot of those generators got flooded when the leeve wall broke. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 29, 19:50
Yikes. I hope Biden handles this better than Dubya. - Beryllium Aug 29, 18:37 5
- so basically, the first point of failure in a large scale disaster response is the governor. In Katrina the LA governor failed. - loosilu Aug 29, 18:47 1
  - Makes sense. Do they have an otherwise-competent governor? ("Aug 02: Governor reinstates mask mandate", I'll count that as a yes) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 29, 19:36
- FEMA pre-staged supplies, so hopefully distribution goes well. -- nm - TWuG Aug 29, 18:47 1
  - That's what they are supposed to do. They cannot deliver the supplies unless the governor does the stuff. -- nm - loosilu Aug 29, 18:48
- It starts locally (city), then state, then Biden can do nothing unless the governor makes specific requests. -- nm - loosilu Aug 29, 18:44

Post a message top

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.