Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by Negitivefrags on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:34PM
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When you are told there is a lack of beds, it really doesn't have to mean a lack of physical beds.
A bed that isn't staffed with a nurse is no more useful then laying in your bed at home.
Yeah, people keep responding to this, so I'll reply.. Yeah, the beds are literally full, at least in the hospital I was in. People on beds in the hallways and stuff. It's not a staffing shortage or anything like that.
"beds" and capacity can be synonymous in casual medical conversation. If the staff had plenty of literal beds, but no staff for them, they might still tell you that they had no beds, because they are just saying they don't have the capacity.
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by JamesBarney on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:42PM
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Like when a restaurant tells you they don't have any available tables, when you can clearly see empty tables.
[0] I don't know the right word for it, but a small room usually used for short-term (<few hours) evaluation of a patient before passing them along to the next phase, like admitting to a ward or sending them home or etc.
[1] https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-kelowna-general-hospi...
[2] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-e...
[3] https://richmond.com/news/national/with-no-beds-hospitals-sh...