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First, surges in Covid-19 infections led to shortages of hospital beds and staff. Now it's oxygen

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Michael Ejercito

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Aug 30, 2021, 10:45:04 AM8/30/21
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By Kristen Holmes and Aya Elamroussi, CNN

Updated 10:24 AM ET, Mon August 30, 2021

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(CNN)Hospitals in parts of the South are running out of oxygen supply as
Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue soaring, driven by the
swaths of people who remain unvaccinated and a dangerous coronavirus
variant that has infected millions of Americans.

Several hospitals in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana are
struggling with oxygen scarcity. Some are at risk of having to use their
reserve supply or risk running out of oxygen imminently, according to
state health officials and hospital consultants.
With the continued uptick in Covid-19 cases, there has been more demand
on the oxygen supply, and hospitals cannot keep up the pace to meet
those needs, Donna Cross, senior director of facilities and construction
at Premier -- a health care performance improvement company -- told CNN.
'There is no room to put these bodies,' Alabama health official
says as Covid-19 deaths climb
'There is no room to put these bodies,' Alabama health official says as
Covid-19 deaths climb
"Normally, an oxygen tank would be about 90% full, and the suppliers
would let them get down to a refill level of 30-40% left in their tank,
giving them a three- to five-day cushion of supply," said Cross. "What's
happening now is that hospitals are running down to about 10-20%, which
is a one- to two-day supply on hand, before they're getting backfilled."

Even when they're getting backfill, it's only a partial supply of about
50%, Cross said. "It is very critical situation."
Florida on Saturday had the highest Covid-19 hospitalization rate in the
country, with 75 patients per 100,000 residents in hospitals with the
virus, according to data from federal health officials and Johns Hopkins
University. It also reached yet another pandemic high of Covid-19 cases
Friday, reporting 690.5 new cases per 100,000 people each day from
August 20 to August 26, state data showed.
Portable morgues for Central Florida
Covid-19 deaths have increased so much that the Central Florida Disaster
Medical Coalition, a federally funded nonprofit that aids in preparing
health care system response, has purchased 14 portable morgues with the
capacity of 12 decedents each, coalition Executive Director Lynne Drawdy
said.
She said that the organization has met with hospitals in the region to
find out what their needs are. The hospitals relayed that in the last
week more morgue space was the highest priority because there was not
adequate capacity -- and that they have seen delays in funeral homes
picking up those who have died.
Dr. Ahmed Elhaddad, an intensive care unit doctor in Florida, told CNN's
Pamela Brown on Saturday that he's frustrated and "tired of seeing
people die and suffer because they did not take a vaccine."
He said the Delta variant is "eating" people's lungs, which eventually
leads to their collapse.
"We're seeing the patients die faster with this (Delta) variant," said
Elhaddad, who is the ICU medical director at Jupiter Medical Center.
A respiratory therapist treats a COVID-19 patient in a NCH Healthcare
System's ICU on August 9 in Naples, Florida.
A respiratory therapist treats a COVID-19 patient in a NCH Healthcare
System's ICU on August 9 in Naples, Florida.
"This round, we're seeing the younger patients -- 30-, 40-, 50-year-olds
-- and they're suffering. They're hungry for oxygen, and they're dying.
Unfortunately, this round they're dying faster," he said.
The government's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told
CNN's Jake Tapper that the US could see an additional 100,000 deaths
from Covid-19 by December, as predicted by a University of Washington model.
"What is going on now is both entirely predictable, but entirely
preventable. And you know we know we have the wherewithal with vaccines
to turn this around," Fauci, director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.
Elhaddad noted that his ICU does not have a single Covid-19 patient who
is vaccinated, nor did he see any vaccinated people die from Covid-19.
"There's no magic medicine. ... The only thing that we're finding is
that the vaccine is preventing death. It's preventing patients from
coming to the ICU," Elhaddad said.
Fauci pointed to the 80 million Americans who are eligible for the
vaccine, but who are not vaccinated. "We could turn this around and we
could do it efficiently and quickly if we just get those people
vaccinated," he said.
Florida has fully vaccinated 52.4% of its total population, data from
the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Saturday.
Meanwhile, less than 50% of people in South Carolina, Louisiana and
Texas -- where oxygen supplies are also low -- are fully vaccinated.
Studies have shown that full vaccination is necessary for optimal
protection against the Delta variant.
Nationally, 52.1% of the population was fully vaccinated as of Saturday,
CDC data shows.
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Louisiana's overall vaccination rate remains among the lowest in the
nation at 41.2% -- and the state's hospitals are dealing with hundreds
of Covid-19 patients as Hurricane Ida slams the region.
Some 2,450 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 in Louisiana, Gov.
John Bel Edwards said Saturday, which is a drop of 20% in the past 10
days. But it's still the most the state has had since before the current
surge in cases, Edwards told CNN's Jim Acosta.
More than 475 of those patients are on ventilators, according to data
from the state department of health.
'Time is not on our side.' Gulf Coast braces for Sunday arrival
of Hurricane Ida, potentially a Category 4 storm
'Time is not on our side.' Gulf Coast braces for Sunday arrival of
Hurricane Ida, potentially a Category 4 storm
Hurricane Ida made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday as
a dangerous Category 4 hurricane. Possible injuries from the storm stand
to compound the risk of health care facilities being overwhelmed, given
Covid-19 patients already occupy hospitals at high rates.
"Evacuating hospitals is not going to be possible because there's
nowhere to bring those patients to, there's no excess capacity anywhere
else in the state or outside the state," Edwards said.
"Then you have people who may be injured as a result of the hurricane
itself, and so we need to make sure we have some capacity for them," he
said. "We still have a very, very challenging situation here across the
state of Louisiana."
Edwards pointed out that he's worried about lengthy power outages. The
state has about 10,000 lineworkers ready to go and another 20,000 on
standby to assist as soon as necessary.
"Restoring power is going to be critically important in order to keep
these hospitals up and functioning," he said.
All of the state's parishes are in the highest risk category for
coronavirus, with widespread, uncontrolled transmission, and many
undetected cases, the state health department said.
'We're headed into a really tough time for young people,' doctor says
A return to in-person learning has led to thousands of students having
to quarantine across the US, with Covid-19 cases among children surging
to levels not seen since winter.
And hospitalizations of children due to Covid-19 could continue to
increase as more of them return to classrooms this fall.
"There is no question that we're headed into a really tough time for
young people," Dr. Esther Choo told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Saturday.
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protect children from Covid-19
US Surgeon General urges parents and officials take these steps to
protect children from Covid-19
Choo, a professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science
University, added that while people had some reassurance last year that
the virus wouldn't affect children as severely, this year is different.
"We're going back to school in-person, unmasked across the United
States. There's a lot of resistance to things like mask mandates and
vaccinations that would keep our kids safer in schools," she said.
Notably, children under 12 are not yet eligible to be vaccinated against
Covid-19.
Not all schools in the US have opened yet, but the remaining ones are
expected to open after Labor Day, which is when Choo said children's
Covid-19 hospitalizations could increase.
"We're no doubt going to see more of what we're seeing now, which is
hospitals just bursting with pediatric admissions," she said, noting
Covid-19 deaths of children will also become more common.
Fauci said he supports mandating Covid-19 vaccines for students who are
eligible, noting, "This is not something new. We have mandates in many
places in schools, particularly public schools that if in fact you want
a child to come in, we've done this for decades and decades requiring
polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis," vaccinations.

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HeartDoc Andrew

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Aug 30, 2021, 11:17:10 AM8/30/21
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The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines no longer effective.

Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.

So how are you ?








...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

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Cardiologist with an http://HeartMDPhD.com/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://HeartMDPhD.com/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
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which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis

Michael Ejercito

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Aug 31, 2021, 11:19:08 AM8/31/21
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I am wonderfully hungry!


Michael

HeartDoc Andrew

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Aug 31, 2021, 11:21:33 AM8/31/21
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MichaelE wrote:
> I am wonderfully hungry!


While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://HeartMDPhD.com/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all
glory ( http://HeartMDPhD.com/Psalm117_ ) to GOD, Who causes us to
hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a)
thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT from around the heart

...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
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