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The trend is not our friend: Hospitalizations nearing or surpassing spring peak

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* Fro Gov. Pritzker’s PowerPoint presentation today…

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 3:38 pm

Comments

Good thing schools are still open. My wife was exposed Friday, the first day back with a full class and found out today. But since the kid sat 8ft away instead of 6ft, she is magically safe and unable to use covid leave.

Comment by Shane Falco Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 3:50 pm
=== it’s no wonder you people are so worked up===

If you’re not concerned about hospital capacities, you’re not an adult to this conversation.

You’re also likely to infect folks with no mask, so add being a Covidiot to what you bring to smarts… little to none.

Don’t respond. Thanks.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 3:58 pm
is that all you do===

10,289 Illinoisans don’t do anything at all anymore. I guess that requires a little thinkin’ about.

Comment by Jibba Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 3:59 pm
Not the blue wave I was hoping for

Comment by A Well-Regulated Commenter Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:09 pm
I guess the silver lining is that Hospitals are better prepared this time around. We have better remedies and treatments for COVID. But the reality is we are probably at least three weeks from a potential peak. There will be a study done someday on medical care denied or delayed because of peaks like this. In the next few weeks don’t accidently fall down the stairs or something worse were you end up in the ER. Pain of a broken bone will wait versus saving someone’s life.

Comment by Nagidam Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:09 pm
“My wife was exposed Friday, the first day back with a full class and found out today”

My wife has been back in the classroom since early September, but the number of covid positives in the student population are really spiking in the last couple weeks. If her district had a union I expect it would be playing out differently. As it stands, the way it looks to me is that the “leadership” is so scared of making all the hockey moms and football dads mad that they’re going to wait until there is a dead staff member before they go remote.

Comment by Larry Bowa Jr. Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:17 pm
These numbers are scary and need to be taken seriously. Hospitals are filling up and some are understaffed leaving those who are working being drained because of long shifts. The effects those that don’t have COVID also if scheduled procedures get canceled again.

It’s time for everyone to start following the Governor’s mitigation guidelines and try to slow this virus down. If this doesn’t slow down we could easily go back to March again.

Comment by Club J Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:17 pm
===But the reality is we are probably at least three weeks from a potential peak.===

The reality is within the next three weeks we will exceed our spring peaks. No guarantee our current situation will suddenly “peak” at that point as we are doing so little to actually flatten the curve.

This will keep getting worse until everyone takes it seriously. We may be in for a ghastly period before they do.

Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:26 pm
Son who is an ER doc has been seeing these increases for a while long before the numbers were reflecting. The bad news is staffing is worse as hospitals pared staff due to budgets. Nurses are retiring or leaving to care for children. Not enough specialists to address increasing numbers in ICU. Stay home if you can. You don’t want to get this and need to be hospitalized. Hospitals are starting to strain under the load and medical personnel can only do so much. In the mean time many people have no clue how bad this is as they don’t watch the news or read the paper.

Comment by illinifan Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:48 pm
@Nadigam -

Treatments and remedies are only marginally better than before. Hospitalizations and ICU rates are about where they were, ventilator rates are up, I think ventilator mortalities are down and death rates are down slightly.

I have not seen any data on length of hospital stay yet, and that one is a problem.

Bottom line; there is no such thing as “A good time for a pandemic.”

Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Tuesday, Nov 10, 20 @ 4:53 pm