Thursday, November 12, 2020

C19 Update: No ICUs Available in Jackson Area

 The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 1,271 cases and 17 deaths yesterday.*   The total number of cases is 130,665. The virus has caused 3,514 deaths. Nursing home deaths comprise 40% of overall Covid-19 deaths in Mississippi. There are 111,430 recoveries. More information and a complete list of infected counties can be found at the MSDH website. The Rt value is 0.82.


 However, deaths are remaining about the same as cases rise. 

The big chart doesn't contain much good news. 



ICU capacity is virtually non-existent in the Jackson metro area.  There are a total of 106 available ICU beds in Mississippi.   There are 221 ICU beds in the Jackson metro area but there are none available.  Covid-19 patients are 18% of total ICU patients. 

* 16 of the deaths occurred between November 5 and 11.  

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

I only got a degree in engineering and may not know numbers that well. But something doesn't jive with this post. I just can't put my finger on it.

Anonymous said...

We have someone trying to get in right now!
You people who refuse to wear a mask, please, please consider others.

Anonymous said...

Yeehaw! Bring on the turkey and dressing!

Anonymous said...

Serious questions: (1) why is it so difficult to find daily, localized information about case numbers? I finally did today, but it took a while of searching on MDH's website. (2) why do we still talk about case numbers as dating back to March? For example, why are we saying that there are 8,773 cases in Hinds county as of today when most of those are months old? Isn't it more helpful to say that there have been 500 new cases in Hinds county in the last two weeks?

I don't know that either of these things matter on a large scale, but they seem to give a better local picture than focusing on the total statewide number.

Calm Down said...

Covid-19 patients are 18% of total ICU patients.

Interesting.

Anonymous said...

No Jackson ICU beds on a Thursday afternoon ?

Serious question.

Where will the Jackson gunshot victims spend the weekend ?

Anonymous said...

CON problem, not COVID problem.....

Anonymous said...

This is bullshit.

Anonymous said...

The number of ICU beds is a function of staffing. Hospitals either can't find staff or choose to staff only a limited number of beds. Hospitals have run out of ICU beds many times before and for many reasons other than COVID, only nobody made a big deal out of it. It's just another way to keep the COVID paranoia at fever pitch (no pun intended). Wonder what they would do if we had a real pandemic.

Anonymous said...

Masks are not effective as argued. I have to agree with 1:58, but then again, we are not among the gifted on this site. Think 3:38 may also be on to something.

Anonymous said...

Cases going up, hospitalizations going up, deaths going up. Anyone see a pattern. Anyone think it won't do anything but get worse as we go through Thanksgiving and Christmas?

COVID is generally survivable. The problem is the complete lack of immunity and the rapidness of the spread given people's lack of mitigation efforts. Only 1 in 200 may die, but when you are talking about potentially 3,000,000 people in Mississippi who could get infected you wind up with a lot of deaths.

Best estimate I've seen at this point is about 25% infection rate overall. Hopefully the vaccine will be available soon and we can overcome this before another 10,000 Mississippians lose their lives and another 100,000 more suffer excruciating, long-term side effects.

Anonymous said...

3:37, 3:38, & 3:44 Hit the nail on the head!!! It is a sad day when people are losing their lives, but the fact of the matter remains that it is a financial decision that led to the inadequate number of ICU beds.

Anonymous said...

" Hospitals can't find staff "

Ya think ?

Anonymous said...

2:04

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/mississippi?view=total-deaths&tab=trend

Anonymous said...

So I guess I have a complete misunderstanding of the Rt. I was under the impression that an Rt of over 1.00 meant the virus would spread and one under 1.00 meant it was slowing down. MS has had a sub-1.00 Rt since July 14 (and we are currently the lowest in the nation, and the ONLY state below 1.00 by a large amount), yet the numbers continue to come in.

I know Rt is of some statistical value, but I evidently just don't know what it is....

Anonymous said...

3:37, yes, you are correct. You and 3:38 are not among the 'gifted' on this site. I could list a couple of others, but since you made the original statement, I'm just agreeing..

Anonymous said...

588 of the 792 occupied ICU beds are for non-covid patients. Why do we have to dig the pertinent info out ourselves ?

Anonymous said...

Can we ask drug dealers not to shoot each other so we can free up additional ICU space for the Rona? God, why do those guys have to be so selfish?

Anonymous said...

@2:04, The media and government are worried that if you got “localized” numbers, We’d find that COVID generally only offs the patients with advanced age, averaging 85 years old (and a tiny fraction of them) and then we couldn’t lock down the nation, drive everyone but WalMart and Amazon out of business, launch basic universal income and real time tracking, along with digital only currency

Anonymous said...

You goddamn idjits just amaze me. How can you be so intelligent and educated and still can't see the difference between trees and the forest... In normal times ICU beds are in demand but 80% are filled. Rate limited by a function of empty beds and staff to service that bed. Normally these beds are filled with the usual car wrecks, heart attacks, etc. With COVID and the 20% set aside just for the COVID patients- the demand outpaces supply and hospitals need 120 to 140% of current ICU capacity to take care of the supply. Hence, people end up parked in ED slots waiting for an ICU slot to open up and receive substandard care. The whole problem hinges on way too much demand outweighing capacity for care. Dumbasses



Anonymous said...

I thought this was supposed to go away Nov 3.

Anonymous said...

Hospitals can't find staff is total bullshit. I know too many RNs and NPs that are looking for extra work or part time jobs because their hours have cut at the hospitals where they're employed.

Anonymous said...

@7:44pm - Thank you.

@7:50pm - Me too.

Jacksun said...

Respect nature which is stronger than you; respect science which alone can find a way to keep you safe; and respect each other by wearing your mask in every public place.

Anonymous said...

Dr. Horne said today that patients in Laurel are being airlifted to Pensacola. We are full up in Jackson and parts south.

Mobile, apparently, has no room in the inn.

Anonymous said...

7:44 just taught me something. I had no idea that hospitals had erectile dysfunction units.

Anonymous said...

For the 10,000 time the rt number isn’t right. Stop with the damn fake news and fact check some stuff Kingfish. All it takes is looking at the graphs to see that it isn’t right. When the state changed from reporting number of test daily to reporting it weekly it made the rt value useless. The day before the state change we were already up over a 1. Hell the feds just listed MS as a top 25-30 state for covid.

Anonymous said...

I don't have a solution, other than nuking the royal palace in China would be a good start.

Anonymous said...

all i know is that with the statewide mask mandate, the daily cases were less than 500, and the deaths were but a trickle. now we are right back to where we were-no room in the hospital and a death rate on the rise.

gov reeves should follow the science and mandate masks. his current strategy will lead us to another economic shutdown.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish is aware the rt value is incorrect for our state with all the missing data, but he chooses to use it anyways since it’s fake news and is the only way to put a positive spin on our failure.

Anonymous said...

I'm not a doctor. Having said that, wouldn't it make sense for people in the ER at St. Dominic in Jackson to wear masks? I'm talking about the doctors on duty, the nurses on duty, the janitors on duty, the EMT's bringing in patients, etc. Shouldn't they wear a mask unless they are social distancing at least 6 feet? Because they are medically trained, and if they believe COVID is bad, wouldn't they want to?

Anonymous said...

Look at states who have maintained their mask mandates throughout the year. They are experiencing the same increase in infections. Maybe just maybe the mask isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Anonymous said...

ICU beds are always in short demand and COVID patients make up a small percentage of their users...
COVID is a serious virus but the fear mongering by the political heads needs to stop...



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