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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,060 posts) Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:11 PM Jun 2020

Texas Medical Center scrubbed data showing ICU beds at full capacity

as the state's coronavirus cases spike

On Sunday, the Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston, the largest medical complex in the world, scrubbed data from its website showing how beds in its intensive care units were at capacity, along with other data about coronavirus infections in the state.

The move came as the area is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, and hospitals around the state are scrambling to increase their ICU capacities.

According to the Houston Chronicle, the data was deleted from the website after a conversation between hospital administrators and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who expressed displeasure at the metrics on the website. Most of the charts with hospital data were restored and modified after the Chronicle story ran.

More than half of the state's hospitalizations for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, have occured in the last two weeks, Newsweek reported. Days before the TMC removed ICU-bed data, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Houston hospitals to stop conducting elective surgeries, a space-saving measure for COVID-19 patients. He also put statewide reopening plans on pause.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-medical-center-scrubbed-data-150116185.html

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Texas Medical Center scrubbed data showing ICU beds at full capacity (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP

K&R, assholes medical group are now factoring in overflow capacity. Then they're NEVER be full cause uponit7771 Jun 2020 #1

They always had that factored in. Igel Jun 2020 #2

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

1. K&R, assholes medical group are now factoring in overflow capacity. Then they're NEVER be full cause

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:25 PM

Jun 2020

... they could build beds in ready hospitals ad nausea.

Igel

(35,320 posts)

2. They always had that factored in.

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:57 PM

Jun 2020

It's local for me. I've referred to that page a dozen times in posts in the last two weeks.

It was formatted differently, but said the same information. There was baseline capacity, now called "Phase 1."

There was overflow that existed and could be used indefinitely.

There was known, planned emergency capacity that wasn't considered sustainable for long term use.

There was no indication that additional emergency capacity couldn't be planned and implemented.

I find the new format a bit harder to read (perhaps because I'm used to the old format). At the same time, I think it's harder to misread this--which is what even local news sources were doing.

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