COVID resurgence: maskless southern states being crushed

Southern Hospitals, Crushed By Delta Strain,
and Running Out Of ICU Beds`

Arkansas had just 8 intensive care beds left across the state on Monday
amid a COVID-19 surge, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said.

Hospitals across the southern United States are reporting dramatic surges in coronavirus patients, forcing some to close their emergency rooms and others to treat more patients than they have capacity for as the delta variant of the virus continues to wreak havoc on regions with large swaths of unvaccinated residents.

Arkansas' REPUBLICAN Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday said the state had “very startling” figures showing the largest, single-day increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations since the pandemic began.

He said state hospitals had just 8 beds in the ICU left for severely ill patients.

In Louisiana, an epicenter of the current wave, hospitalizations were climbing at the fastest rate since the pandemic started. Last week, the head of the state’s largest hospital described recent weeks as the “darkest” thus far, saying doctors were no longer able to provide patients adequate care under a crush in admissions.

“When you come inside our walls, it is quite obvious to you that these are the darkest days of this pandemic,” Dr. Catherine O’Neal, who runs the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, said last Monday.
O’Neal added later that week that dozens of children and young adults were now in the hospital, a reality that’s new under the delta variant. Half of the 12 children admitted were under the age of 2, The Advocate reported.

delta is spreading everywhere but exponentially worse in southern rumplicker states

rump promised to end covid

still waiting for him to do what he said  

5 pinocchios

COVID resurgence: maskless southern states being crushed

Florida reported similar circumstances, with many hospitals over capacity. The Wall Street Journal reported that at least 43% of the state’s intensive care beds are filled with coronavirus patients, prompting complex logistical issues as hospital workers race to find space for a tide of sick residents.

This is America's fourth covid-19 surge

"We have peaked above any previous wave and it is straining our system,
our physicians and all of our clinicians," said Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer
of AdventHealth's Central Florida division.

"None of these patients thought they would get the virus.
But the delta variant has proven to be so HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS
that even the young and the healthy, including pregnant patients,
are starting to fill up our hospitals."

Build a wall around the South!

184,128 new cases today 

I thought Trump was the problem? 

In Texas, hospitals are preparing for the steady rise of
COVID-19 hospitalizations that are following rising cases counts.
Like in Florida, Texas hospital beds are being filled with
unvaccinated COVID-19 patients, said Angela G. Clendenin,
a professor at Texas A&M School of Public Health.

While previous COVID-19 waves mainly involved older and
middle-aged adults with existing health conditions, the new wave
is claiming young adults in their 20s and 30s who need
breathing machines in hospital intensive care units, Clendenin said.

big spike in cases again today led by the southern rumplicker states who refuse masking and vaccines

their continued defiance will lead to even more cases and hospitalizations tomorrow and the day after

cant fix stupid

Who are Democrats going to blame when the Covid numbers start flying in blue states again? 

In Missouri, which trails only Louisiana in cases per 100,000 residents
over the past seven days, hospitals are preparing for stressful weeks ahead.
Hospitalizations during the current delta-driven wave
have surpassed last winter's peak in several communities,
said Dave Dillon, a spokesman for the Missouri Hospital Association.
"The growth in hospitalization that might have taken months
in 2020 is now happening in weeks with delta," Dillon said.
                      "We’re probably in for a hard summer and fall."

ABC News reports:

FLORIDA *quietly* asks Biden admin for 300 ventilators

As a result of the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations,
the state of Florida requested 300 ventilators from the federal government,
according to a Department of Health and Human Services planning
document obtained by ABC News.

The request was made on Friday “to replace expended state stores,”
the document said. The ventilators were expected to be delivered on
Monday, though it was not said how they will be allocated.

And in Texas several hospitals said they were closing their emergency rooms due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, directing patients elsewhere.

Why isn’t Biden doing anything? 

Biden has blood on his hands. 

KM.... what is your commentary on the fact that 75% of all vaccinated Floridians are white?   

How do you tie "Rumplickers" to the non-vaccinated people making up the majority of these covid cases?

Thanks and I'll listen off air....

who the hell is in charge down there ???

Why is testing so low under Biden? 

Not very smart to only push the vaccine and stop testing. 

Many will die because of this decision. 

all rumplicker states  btw  

It’s racist to talk about southern states the way Democrats do 

worst areas statistically by far  r in the southern states run by rumplickers

Bigot