#Hospitals

AbolishBorderControlsNow

I spebd a lot of time in #hospitals and #care homes through my work and it is incredible how reliant the UK is on #migrant labour. Lack of support for training is one factor but also the pay is awful for such hard work.

People are leaving this work for better paid work elsewhere. It is likely that when they can, most migrant workers will move on also.

It's is hard to see how the care sector in particular will survive in it's present form.

#NHS #ukpolitics #SocialCare

Steve Maclellan

Extreme weather, driven by climate change, could shut down more than 16,000 hospitals worldwide: report

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-9665-6d35-8001-089094864136

Extreme weather, driven by climate change, could shut down more than 16,000 hospitals worldwide: report

- 10x as many Palestinians killed in #revenge as Israelis killed in #Hamas attack
- Almost all Palestinian victims = #Civilians
- Disproportionate #women and #children victims
- #HumanShields as an #oppression tactic
- #Bombing of #hospitals, #libraries, #schools
- Aggressive #disinformation & #propaganda campaign
- Approval of literal #genocide by Netanyahu advisers
- 75 years of #occupation
- Wholesale #rape, #murder, and razing of villages since 1949
- Murder of peaceful #activists
- Murder of #journalists
- Theft of homes and possessions
- Making #Gaza a prison city
- Starvation-focused embargo
- Oppressive laws for Palestinians
- Thousands of Palestinian #prisoners, many tortured & assaulted
- Indefinite "detention" even after death
- Keeping bodies of prisoners

I think the response of #israel to the Oct. 7 attacks has done more to inform the world about their policies toward #Palestine than any other event in the last 70+ years.

This should be the new example of the #StreisandEffect.

The Japan Times

Around half of the hospitals that accept Japan's My Number identification say they see no benefit for patients, according to a labor ministry survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/03/japan/science-health/my-number-id-cards-survey/?utm_content=buffer9b4b5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #sciencehealth #mynumber #personalinformation #bigdata #surveys #hospitals

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Final mortality data for 2020—released in Sept.—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.

[CDC data for 2021 due this year.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #LongCovid #MassDisablingEvent #liver #accident #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy

Chart: Select Causes of Death: Reported Annual Data
Data: NCHS, Census. Accidents figure for 2022 is provisional (not final).

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2021 for causes liver disease & self-harm; through 2022 for accidents (unintentional injuries). Dotted lines indicate trendlines for Jan 2020 forward, for each cause category.

Legend:

* Accidents (unintentional injuries) (+45K more annual deaths vs. 2019)
* Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (+12.2K)
* Intentional self-harm (suicide) (+0.7K)
* Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Accidents (unintentional injuries) have returned to their pre-pandemic standing as third leading cause of death in the United States. While deaths for which covid-19 was the attributed underlying cause of death were, indeed, down from prior two calendar years, 2022 saw many more deadly accidents than would have been predicted based on 2015-2019 trendline. Were it not for this sustained spike in accidental deaths, covid would have retained third place.

Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis saw a near identical jump in relative mortality over the first two years of the pandemic. As of yet, only provisional figures for 2022’s top four causes of death are available. (Final “statistics”—if not “data”—for all causes might be available end of this year.)

Despite discourse about suicide rates in recent years, intentional self-harm deaths were still below trendline as of 2021’s final mortality figures.

Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data
Data: National Center for Health Statistics

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2020. Chart is blank 2021 to 2022.

Legend:
• Accidental poisoning and exposure to noxious substances (up 32.9% btw. 2019 & 2020) [~87K total in 2020]
• Motor vehicle accidents (up 8.4%) [42K]
• Falls (up 6.8%) [42K]
• Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation (down -4.1%) [7K]
• Accidental drowning and submersion (up 13.1%) [4K]
• Accidental exposure to smoke, fire, and flames (up 9.6%) [3K]
• Accidental discharge of firearms (up 10.1%) [½K]
• All other unintentional injuries (down -1.2%) [15K]

[A table below the legend ranks these items by rate of change.]

Captions:

Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. It took nearly thirty-three months to release final data for 2020. Data for 2021 remains significantly overdue.

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Despite popular conjecture, the observed sharp increase in accidental deaths between 2019 and 2020 was not due to motor vehicle accidents.

Rather, accidental poisonings—up by a third over the prior year—account for nearly all the increase in elevated deaths by accidental causes.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺

Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺

[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #HeartDisease #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Dementia #Sepsis #Cancer #Covid19 #DeathCult

Chart: Elevated Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Deviation from 2015-2019 Average
Data: Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Census Bureau. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 (as of January 1, 2016) through 2020, with solid dots for annualized data weekly from January 2021 through late July 2023. [Six weeks of subsequent CDC data incomplete, thus omitted from this chart.] Dotted lines indicate trendlines from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category.

Legend:

• Hypertensive disease (+31K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Cerebrovascular diseases (+13K)
• Heart failure (+4K)
• Ischemic heart disease (-3K)
• Other diseases of the circulatory system (+7K)
• Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Heart failure mortality stands out as having declined during the pandemic, remaining well below historical trendline to this day.

Ischemic heart disease deaths increased during the first year, but have been more or less declining toward baseline since then. (Notably, ischemic heart disease is the only subgroup to have been on a downward trajectory pre-pandemic.)

Hypertensive, cerebrovascular, and other diseases of the circulatory system, though each seeing declining annualized mortality in recent months, each remain well above their respective historical trendlines.

Chart: Elevated Non-Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Dev. from 2015-2019
Avg Data: CDC, Census. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines 2015–20; solid dots for annualized Jan 2021–June 2023. [Six weeks incomplete data omitted.] Dotted lines for trends from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category. Dash-dot line for sepsis trend had concerted effort at reduction in 2019 not occurred.

Legend:

• Diabetes (+10K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Alzheimers and dementia (+18K)
• Renal failure (+5K)
• Sepsis (+4K)
• Malignant neoplasms (+14K)
• Projected U.S. 65+ population

Caption:

After spiking in first year of the pandemic, annualized Alzheimer disease and dementia mortality dropped just as swiftly, thereafter remaining near or below historical trend.

Diabetes mortality has not been so quick to recover from first year spike, only beginning to decline in the second half of last year, though still well above pre-pandemic trend.

Deaths by sepsis were markedly down in 2019, following a coordinated national effort by hospitals. Despite this, sepsis mortality has been climbing at a rate well above even pre-2019’s relatively flat trendline, for over three years now.

Renal failure deaths didn’t see an appreciable climb until the latter part of 2021, peaking only months ago. Meanwhile, malignant neoplasm (cancer) deaths, slower to manifest, have been suggestively creeping above trend for well over a year.

John Smith ☮ 🇺🇦🇦🇲🇫🇷

My 91 years old grand-aunt is being hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia. I really hope she'll be okay, but Russian hospitals are notorious for being.. not so good. It's essentially a lottery and highly depends on a exact hospital.

#covid #COVID19 #pneumonia #Russia #russian #hospital #hospitals

#Doctors Without Borders Demands Permanent Ceasefire in #Gaza, Medical Aid for Wounded

An update from Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and violence #hospitals are facing in the occupied West Bank. #Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian children Wednesday during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp, and medical workers say they were blocked from reaching the camp to treat the wounded. “Under #humanitarian #law

https://znetwork.org/zvideo/doctors-without-borders-demands-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-medical-aid-for-wounded/

Phoenix.Serenity

#BCgovernment’s workaround to allow medical assistance in dying (#MAiD) at #StPaulsHospital will not prevent the continuing #ForcedTransfers of #EndOfLife #patients at other religious-run #hospitals & #hospices, says a #Vancouver #PalliativeCare #doctor.

“I’m actually shocked,” said Jyothi Jayaraman, who quit her job at a Vancouver hospice, May’s Place, because it stopped providing MAID once it was taken over by #ProvidenceHealth.

https://vancouversun.com/news/national/palliative-care-doctor-speaks-out-about-provinces-maid-changes-for-st-pauls-hospital

#BChealth #BCpoli #PatientRights

01 of 02.

“The destruction of all the components of modern life at which the health system lies, was the main [Israeli] military objective.”

Renowned British-Palestinian surgeon, Dr #Ghassan_Abu_Sitta, who volunteered at #hospitals in #Gaza amidst the intense Israeli bombardment on the besieged enclave, told a press conference in #London on Monday held by the #International_Centre_of_Justice_for_Palestinians about the devastation that unfolded in Gaza’s medical

https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7306273635281407265

Steve Dustcircle 🌹

Why Are #Nonprofit #Hospitals Focused More on #Dollars Than #Patients?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/hospitals-nonprofit-community.html

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Counties by adult ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above*):

⒈ Summit, CO ≥150%*
⒉ Wilcox, AL ≥150%*

⒊ Marshall, KY—118%

⒋ Montgomery, AL—108%
⒌ Tazewell, VA—106%

⒍ Boone, KY—102%
⒎ Alachua, FL—102%

⒏ Stearns, MN—100%
⒐ Lynchburg city, VA—100%
⒑ Clearfield, PA—100%

* Current map omits counties with ICU patients but no staffed ICU beds.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above*):

⒈ Madison Parish, LA ≥150%*

⒉ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒊ Barton, KS ≥150%

⒋ Smyth, VA—128%

⒌ Buchanan, MO—112%

⒍ Wise, VA—106%
⒎ Yuma, AZ—106%

⒏ Boone, KY—103%
⒐ Portage, OH—102%
⒑ Kenton, KY—101%

* Current map omits counties with patients but no staffed beds.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Some 49 (+1) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.

Reporting ≥ 90%: 229 (+25)—near 9½% of those with any capacity. This includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.

For counties w/ ICUs—over one in six are full or near full.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Map: Adult Hospital & ICU Capacity by County
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 18, 2023

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Shows a color scale of 7-day average adult inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average adult inpatient beds staffed for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks, reflecting state-level reported capacity.

Patterns of black circles represent counties where adult ICUs are near full; circles are filled in where adult ICUs are entirely full. Sparse grey dots show areas where no ICU beds are reported.

Most of the map is dark red-orange, with splotches of lighter orange-yellow in the interior, mostly in the Rockies. Black indicators heavily pepper the map.

"If the virus appeared in a nursing home’s wastewater, '[we’d] test everybody — bada bing, we found it.'"
Spot-testing allowed Houston to see just an 8.4% COVID death rate at long-term care facilities, vs. national average of 23.4% Wow, good for them.
#COVID in #WasteWater #excellent #predictor of #new #cases #virus in #waste #water #indicator #CDC #online #tool #find #your #region #test #positive #prevent #breakouts #nursing #home #hospitals #negative #results #badabing https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2023/11/covid-waste-surveillance-poop-pandemic-cases-cdc-tracker/

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Some 345 (+59) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).

Of 267 (-2) counties reporting any PICU capacity, near three in ten are near or over full.

So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #dataviz

Map: Pediatric Hospital & PICU Capacity by County & State
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 18, 2023

Shows a color scale of 7-day average inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average inpatient beds staff for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to light yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks reflecting state-level average.

Sparse grey dots show vast expanses where no PICU beds are reported. Dense patterns of black dots represent counties where PICUs are full or near full.

Much of the map is hatched red-orange with grey dots, with purple-red-orange counties. Interspersed with scattered yellow, mostly in Mississippi watershed and central Texas, with some larger yellow counties in the western states. Black-dotted counties can be spied in all regions. The state of Idaho stands out as a purple-grey hatch surrounded red/orange/yellow hatches in surrounding states.

Giuseppe Michieli

#Hospitals across #China grapple with respiratory #illnesses #surge, GT: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202311/1302731.shtml #pneumonia #rsv #influenza #covid19 #Mycoplasma #news

Major #cyberattack impacting critical care at #hospitals in at least 3 states >>>

#news
#hacking
#youtube
#NBC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=i899TfS-P_M&si=WnkflPhwLZ-ImA9w

Yuki 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦💕💕💕

With the quickly growing new #pandemic in #China and with the #CPP refusing to cooperate with the #WHO and trying to cover up the extent and facts of the #disease. It's time for the rest of the world to close their borders to all #chinese until they cooperate and truthfully work with the WHO and other health care organizations. We can't let them inflict another #Covid level #pandemic on the #world. Demand your #government protect you and your family. This time we know that China is obstructing the WHO and thousands of #children a day are being seen by their #hospitals, don't let it be your #child dying in #ICU!

I put a content warning on this pos, saying it's controversial. It shouldn't be!

Yuki 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦💕💕💕

With the quickly growing new #pandemic in #China and with the #CPP refusing to cooperate with the #WHO and trying to cover up the extent and facts of the #disease. It's time for the rest of the world to close their borders to all #chinese until they cooperate and truthfully work with the WHO and other health care organizations. We can't let them inflict another #Covid level #pandemic on the #world. Demand your #government protect you and your family. This time we know that China is obstructing the WHO and thousands of #children a day are being seen by their #hospitals, don't let it be your #child dying in #ICU!

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, over one in six pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.

PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 74%.

Weekly average ~100 PICU beds were covid patients.

We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Pediatric Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for pediatric Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through November 18, 2023. Hash marks—indicating PICU beds—overlay bottom of each stacked area.

Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (85%), Pediatric Capacity Level (74%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total reported occupied pediatric beds to total reported staffed pediatric beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals with pediatric beds reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.

Capacity was climbing toward 55K, with climbing occupancy, before plummeting to under 10K in Jan '22. Feb '22 saw gain toward 45K; above in May of that year, before trending down to now below 40K.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.

Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Hospital Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through November 18, 2023.

Hash marks overlay bottom of each stacked area—indicating ICU beds. Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (84%), Hospital Capacity Level (76%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total reported occupied beds to total reported staffed beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.

From October 2020 forward, top of the total stack trends downward. A diagonal notation along the top edge reads: "Reported staffed beds have been declining on average ~790 a week for ~3⅒ years." Reported staffed beds are down again after a slight recovery in recent weeks.

Hospitals in at least three states are diverting patients from their emergency rooms after a major cyberattack hit their parent company last week.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/emergency-rooms-least-3-states-diverting-patients-ransomware-attack-rcna126890 #cybersecurity #healthcare #hospitals

Giuseppe Michieli

#China, Respiratory #diseases have entered the season of high incidence, and #children’s #hospitals are experiencing a peak in visits. #Photogallery, SINA: https://slide.news.sina.com.cn/slide_1_2841_586970.html#p=7

Giuseppe Michieli

#China, The number of #outpatient visits in many #hospitals in #Xiamen has doubled. Xiamen CDC issued important reminders to be wary of "#superinfections", https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=Mzg5MDEzMzk1MQ==&idx=1&mid=2247719605&sn=8579ef3e127f62bb97806a775f9941dd #news

World Health Organization spokesman, #Christian_Lindmeier, said on Tuesday that from 180 new babies born in Gaza each day, 20 need specialist treatment which they are unable to receive due to the forced evacuations of hospitals ahead of #Israeli_attacks.

24-11-2023.

#WHO
#Gaza
#Hospitals
#Gazaunderattack

https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7304688473196236065

GhostOnTheHalfShell

Tories and hospitals, what could go wrong? Proving once more when you let conservatives run government they make a pigsty of it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6NShaPvAHOg

#ukpol #tories #hospitals

A network of hospitals in East Texas has not been able to accept ambulances to emergency rooms since Thanksgiving Day because of a “potential [cyber]security incident."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/24/us/east-texas-hospital-cybersecurity/index.html #cybersecurity #hospitals #healthcare #Texas

Still COVIDing Canada

Calgary’s Peter Lougheed Centre adopts masking directive to curb COVID-19 infections

Global News
November 23, 2023
By Paula Tran

“Calgary’s Peter Lougheed Centre is one of the latest hospitals to adopt Alberta Health Service’s mask directive to curb the spread of COVID-19.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/10109843/peter-lougheed-centre-calgary-masking-directive/

#Alberta #BringBackMasks #Calgary #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #N95sSaveLives

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Final mortality data for 2020—released in Sept.—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.

[CDC data for 2021 due this year.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #LongCovid #MassDisablingEvent #liver #accident #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy

Chart: Select Causes of Death: Reported Annual Data
Data: NCHS, Census. Accidents figure for 2022 is provisional (not final).

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2021 for causes liver disease & self-harm; through 2022 for accidents (unintentional injuries). Dotted lines indicate trendlines for Jan 2020 forward, for each cause category.

Legend:

* Accidents (unintentional injuries) (+45K more annual deaths vs. 2019)
* Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (+12.2K)
* Intentional self-harm (suicide) (+0.7K)
* Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Accidents (unintentional injuries) have returned to their pre-pandemic standing as third leading cause of death in the United States. While deaths for which covid-19 was the attributed underlying cause of death were, indeed, down from prior two calendar years, 2022 saw many more deadly accidents than would have been predicted based on 2015-2019 trendline. Were it not for this sustained spike in accidental deaths, covid would have retained third place.

Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis saw a near identical jump in relative mortality over the first two years of the pandemic. As of yet, only provisional figures for 2022’s top four causes of death are available. (Final “statistics”—if not “data”—for all causes might be available end of this year.)

Despite discourse about suicide rates in recent years, intentional self-harm deaths were still below trendline as of 2021’s final mortality figures.

Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data
Data: National Center for Health Statistics

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2020. Chart is blank 2021 to 2022.

Legend:
• Accidental poisoning and exposure to noxious substances (up 32.9% btw. 2019 & 2020) [~87K total in 2020]
• Motor vehicle accidents (up 8.4%) [42K]
• Falls (up 6.8%) [42K]
• Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation (down -4.1%) [7K]
• Accidental drowning and submersion (up 13.1%) [4K]
• Accidental exposure to smoke, fire, and flames (up 9.6%) [3K]
• Accidental discharge of firearms (up 10.1%) [½K]
• All other unintentional injuries (down -1.2%) [15K]

[A table below the legend ranks these items by rate of change.]

Captions:

Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. It took nearly thirty-three months to release final data for 2020. Data for 2021 remains significantly overdue.

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Despite popular conjecture, the observed sharp increase in accidental deaths between 2019 and 2020 was not due to motor vehicle accidents.

Rather, accidental poisonings—up by a third over the prior year—account for nearly all the increase in elevated deaths by accidental causes.

Still COVIDing Canada

Kings County Memorial Hospital in-patient unit declares COVID-19 outbreak

CBC News
November 23, 2023

“A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared in the in-patient unit at Kings County Memorial Hospital in Montague.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-kings-county-memorial-hospital-covid-1.7038131

#Canada #COVID #COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #outbreaks #PEI

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺

Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺

[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #HeartDisease #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Dementia #Sepsis #Cancer #Covid19 #DeathCult

Chart: Elevated Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Deviation from 2015-2019 Average
Data: Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Census Bureau. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 (as of January 1, 2016) through 2020, with solid dots for annualized data weekly from January 2021 through late July 2023. [Six weeks of subsequent CDC data incomplete, thus omitted from this chart.] Dotted lines indicate trendlines from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category.

Legend:

• Hypertensive disease (+31K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Cerebrovascular diseases (+13K)
• Heart failure (+4K)
• Ischemic heart disease (-3K)
• Other diseases of the circulatory system (+7K)
• Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Heart failure mortality stands out as having declined during the pandemic, remaining well below historical trendline to this day.

Ischemic heart disease deaths increased during the first year, but have been more or less declining toward baseline since then. (Notably, ischemic heart disease is the only subgroup to have been on a downward trajectory pre-pandemic.)

Hypertensive, cerebrovascular, and other diseases of the circulatory system, though each seeing declining annualized mortality in recent months, each remain well above their respective historical trendlines.

Chart: Elevated Non-Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Dev. from 2015-2019
Avg Data: CDC, Census. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines 2015–20; solid dots for annualized Jan 2021–June 2023. [Six weeks incomplete data omitted.] Dotted lines for trends from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category. Dash-dot line for sepsis trend had concerted effort at reduction in 2019 not occurred.

Legend:

• Diabetes (+10K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Alzheimers and dementia (+18K)
• Renal failure (+5K)
• Sepsis (+4K)
• Malignant neoplasms (+14K)
• Projected U.S. 65+ population

Caption:

After spiking in first year of the pandemic, annualized Alzheimer disease and dementia mortality dropped just as swiftly, thereafter remaining near or below historical trend.

Diabetes mortality has not been so quick to recover from first year spike, only beginning to decline in the second half of last year, though still well above pre-pandemic trend.

Deaths by sepsis were markedly down in 2019, following a coordinated national effort by hospitals. Despite this, sepsis mortality has been climbing at a rate well above even pre-2019’s relatively flat trendline, for over three years now.

Renal failure deaths didn’t see an appreciable climb until the latter part of 2021, peaking only months ago. Meanwhile, malignant neoplasm (cancer) deaths, slower to manifest, have been suggestively creeping above trend for well over a year.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Counties by adult ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above*):

⒈ Elmore, AL ≥150%*
⒉ Summit, CO ≥150%*

⒊ Shelby, OH ≥150%
⒋ Lincoln, MS ≥150%

⒌ Montgomery, AL—111%
⒍ Natchitoches Parish, LA—110%

⒎ Houston, AL—106%
⒏ Cheshire, NH—104%
⒐ Tazewell, VA—103%
⒑ Danville city, VA—101%

* Current map omits counties with ICU patients but no staffed ICU beds.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above*):

⒈ Madison Parish, LA ≥150%*

⒉ Shelby, OH ≥150%
⒊ Seminole, GA ≥150%

⒋ Smyth, VA—131%
⒌ Barton, KS—131%

⒍ Wise, VA—121%
⒎ Buchanan, MO—115%

⒏ Warren, MS—108%
⒐ Kenton, KY—105%
⒑ Yuma, AZ—105%

* Current map omits counties with patients but no staffed beds.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Some 48 (+5) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.

Reporting ≥ 90%: 204 (+16)—near 8½% of those with any capacity. This includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.

For counties w/ ICUs—near one in six are full or near full.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Map: Adult Hospital & ICU Capacity by County
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 11, 2023

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Shows a color scale of 7-day average adult inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average adult inpatient beds staffed for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks, reflecting state-level reported capacity.

Patterns of black circles represent counties where adult ICUs are near full; circles are filled in where adult ICUs are entirely full. Sparse grey dots show areas where no ICU beds are reported.

Most of the map is dark red-orange, with splotches of lighter orange-yellow in the interior, mostly in the Rockies. Black indicators heavily pepper the map.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Some 286 (+21) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).

Of 269 (+8) counties reporting any PICU capacity, over one in four are near or over full.

So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #dataviz

Map: Pediatric Hospital & PICU Capacity by County & State
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 11, 2023

Shows a color scale of 7-day average inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average inpatient beds staff for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to light yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks reflecting state-level average.

Sparse grey dots show vast expanses where no PICU beds are reported. Dense patterns of black dots represent counties where PICUs are full or near full.

Much of the map is hatched red-orange with grey dots, with purple-red-orange counties. Interspersed with scattered yellow, mostly in Mississippi watershed and central Texas, with some larger yellow counties in the western states. Black-dotted counties can be spied in all regions. The state of Idaho stands out as a purple-grey hatch surrounded red/orange/yellow hatches in surrounding states.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, over one in six pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.

PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 74%.

Weekly average ~90 PICU beds were covid patients.

We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Pediatric Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for pediatric Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through November 11, 2023. Hash marks—indicating PICU beds—overlay bottom of each stacked area.

Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (85%), Pediatric Capacity Level (70%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied pediatric beds to total staffed pediatric beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals with pediatric beds reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.

Capacity was climbing toward 55K, with climbing occupancy, before plummeting to under 10K in Jan '22. Feb '22 saw gain toward 45K; above in May of that year, before trending down to now below 40K.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.

Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Hospital Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through November 11, 2023.

Hash marks overlay bottom of each stacked area—indicating ICU beds. Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (85%), Hospital Capacity Level (76%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied beds to total staffed beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.

From October 2020 forward, top of the total stack trends downward. A diagonal notation along the top edge reads: "Reported staffed beds have been declining on average ~760 a week for ~3 years." Reported staffed beds are down again after a slight recovery in recent weeks.

Phoenix.Serenity

#Patient observes collapse of #healthcare system.

"I finally got in for complex spinal surgery after a three-year wait. My surgery was delayed not due to the lack of a surgeon but due to a shortage of health-care staff, supplies, equipment and infrastructure. I observed this firsthand when I was in the hospital.

Staff shortages were obvious. There were several patients in the hall and the corridors seemed near impassable."

https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/opinion/letter-patient-observes-collapse-of-health-care-system

#BCpoli #BCNDP #hospitals #PublicHealth #YYJ

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Final mortality data for 2020—released on Friday—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.

[CDC data for 2021 due this year.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #LongCovid #MassDisablingEvent #liver #accident #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy

Chart: Select Causes of Death: Reported Annual Data
Data: NCHS, Census. Accidents figure for 2022 is provisional (not final).

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2021 for causes liver disease & self-harm; through 2022 for accidents (unintentional injuries). Dotted lines indicate trendlines for Jan 2020 forward, for each cause category.

Legend:

* Accidents (unintentional injuries) (+45K more annual deaths vs. 2019)
* Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (+12.2K)
* Intentional self-harm (suicide) (+0.7K)
* Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Accidents (unintentional injuries) have returned to their pre-pandemic standing as third leading cause of death in the United States. While deaths for which covid-19 was the attributed underlying cause of death were, indeed, down from prior two calendar years, 2022 saw many more deadly accidents than would have been predicted based on 2015-2019 trendline. Were it not for this sustained spike in accidental deaths, covid would have retained third place.

Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis saw a near identical jump in relative mortality over the first two years of the pandemic. As of yet, only provisional figures for 2022’s top four causes of death are available. (Final “statistics”—if not “data”—for all causes might be available end of this year.)

Despite discourse about suicide rates in recent years, intentional self-harm deaths were still below trendline as of 2021’s final mortality figures.

Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data
Data: National Center for Health Statistics

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2020. Chart is blank 2021 to 2022.

Legend:
• Accidental poisoning and exposure to noxious substances (up 32.9% btw. 2019 & 2020) [~87K total in 2020]
• Motor vehicle accidents (up 8.4%) [42K]
• Falls (up 6.8%) [42K]
• Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation (down -4.1%) [7K]
• Accidental drowning and submersion (up 13.1%) [4K]
• Accidental exposure to smoke, fire, and flames (up 9.6%) [3K]
• Accidental discharge of firearms (up 10.1%) [½K]
• All other unintentional injuries (down -1.2%) [15K]

[A table below the legend ranks these items by rate of change.]

Captions:

Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. It took nearly thirty-three months to release final data for 2020. Data for 2021 remains significantly overdue.

----

Despite popular conjecture, the observed sharp increase in accidental deaths between 2019 and 2020 was not due to motor vehicle accidents.

Rather, accidental poisonings—up by a third over the prior year—account for nearly all the increase in elevated deaths by accidental causes.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺

Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺

[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #HeartDisease #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Dementia #Sepsis #Cancer #Covid19 #DeathCult

Chart: Elevated Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Deviation from 2015-2019 Average
Data: Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Census Bureau. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 (as of January 1, 2016) through 2020, with solid dots for annualized data weekly from January 2021 through late July 2023. [Six weeks of subsequent CDC data incomplete, thus omitted from this chart.] Dotted lines indicate trendlines from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category.

Legend:

• Hypertensive disease (+31K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Cerebrovascular diseases (+13K)
• Heart failure (+4K)
• Ischemic heart disease (-3K)
• Other diseases of the circulatory system (+7K)
• Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Heart failure mortality stands out as having declined during the pandemic, remaining well below historical trendline to this day.

Ischemic heart disease deaths increased during the first year, but have been more or less declining toward baseline since then. (Notably, ischemic heart disease is the only subgroup to have been on a downward trajectory pre-pandemic.)

Hypertensive, cerebrovascular, and other diseases of the circulatory system, though each seeing declining annualized mortality in recent months, each remain well above their respective historical trendlines.

Chart: Elevated Non-Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Dev. from 2015-2019
Avg Data: CDC, Census. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines 2015–20; solid dots for annualized Jan 2021–June 2023. [Six weeks incomplete data omitted.] Dotted lines for trends from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category. Dash-dot line for sepsis trend had concerted effort at reduction in 2019 not occurred.

Legend:

• Diabetes (+10K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Alzheimers and dementia (+18K)
• Renal failure (+5K)
• Sepsis (+4K)
• Malignant neoplasms (+14K)
• Projected U.S. 65+ population

Caption:

After spiking in first year of the pandemic, annualized Alzheimer disease and dementia mortality dropped just as swiftly, thereafter remaining near or below historical trend.

Diabetes mortality has not been so quick to recover from first year spike, only beginning to decline in the second half of last year, though still well above pre-pandemic trend.

Deaths by sepsis were markedly down in 2019, following a coordinated national effort by hospitals. Despite this, sepsis mortality has been climbing at a rate well above even pre-2019’s relatively flat trendline, for over three years now.

Renal failure deaths didn’t see an appreciable climb until the latter part of 2021, peaking only months ago. Meanwhile, malignant neoplasm (cancer) deaths, slower to manifest, have been suggestively creeping above trend for well over a year.

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"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Counties by adult ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above):

⒈ Marshall, KY ≥150%
⒉ Shelby, OH ≥150%
⒊ Cascade, MT ≥150%

⒋ Houston, AL—146%

⒌ Tazewell, VA—116%

⒍ Montgomery, AL—107%

⒎ Stearns, MN—100%
⒏ Lynchburg city, VA—100%
⒐ Muskegon, MI—100%
⒑ Anoka, MN—100%

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Counties by adult hospital capacity (darkest counties on map above*):

⒈ Madison Parish, LA ≥150%*

⒉ Shelby, OH ≥150%
⒊ Seminole, GA ≥150%
⒋ Marshall, KY ≥150%
⒌ Smyth, VA ≥150%

⒍ Warren, MS—119%
⒎ Wise, VA—117%
⒏ Buchanan, MO—113%

⒐ Yuma, AZ—105%
⒑ Kenton, KY—104%

* Current map omits counties with patients but no staffed beds.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Some 43 (-6) counties ≥ 100% capacity per HHS data.

Reporting ≥ 90%: 188 (-22)—near 8¾% of those with any capacity. This includes surge and overflow beds: near full can mean E/Rs with day-long wait times.

For counties w/ ICUs—near one in six are full or near full.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Map: Adult Hospital & ICU Capacity by County
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 4, 2023

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Shows a color scale of 7-day average adult inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average adult inpatient beds staffed for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks, reflecting state-level reported capacity.

Patterns of black circles represent counties where adult ICUs are near full; circles are filled in where adult ICUs are entirely full. Sparse grey dots show areas where no ICU beds are reported.

Most of the map is dark red-orange, with splotches of lighter orange-yellow in the interior, mostly in the Rockies. Black indicators heavily pepper the map.

Health Insurers Have Been Breaking State Laws for Years
==

States have passed hundreds of laws to protect people from wrongful #insurance denials.

Yet from emergency services to fertility preservation, #insurers still say no.

#Health #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #Legal #Court #CriminalJustice #Crime #Politics #News #Patients #Doctors #Hospitals

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurance-denials-breaking-state-laws?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Illustration showing a sparse map of the United States with a series of scrawled red X's marking various, unnamed locations on the map, but clustered in high population areas like California, Texas, the Northeast.
This is overlaid on a chart showing a list of citations for violating various insurance coverage requirements.

Illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Charts by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Some 265 (+16) counties have pediatric care near or over capacity (≥ 90%).

Of 257 (-12) counties reporting any PICU capacity, over one in five are near or over full.

So many places where there ain't enough staff for sick or injured kids to receive required care.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #pediatric #hospitals #pedsICU #RSV #Strep #Flu #LongCovidKids #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #dataviz

Map: Pediatric Hospital & PICU Capacity by County & State
Data: U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services, American National Standards Institute
As of: Nov 4, 2023

Shows a color scale of 7-day average inpatient beds occupied over 7-day average inpatient beds staff for 48 contiguous states only. Scale runs from black (well over 140%), to purple (120%), to red (80%), to orange (50%), to light yellow (10%). Counties for which no hospitals/beds are reported are represented by colored hatch marks reflecting state-level average.

Sparse grey dots show vast expanses where no PICU beds are reported. Dense patterns of black dots represent counties where PICUs are full or near full.

Much of the map is hatched red-orange with grey dots, with purple-red-orange counties. Interspersed with scattered yellow, mostly in Mississippi watershed and central Texas, with some larger yellow counties in the western states. Black-dotted counties can be spied in all regions. The state of Idaho stands out as a purple-grey hatch surrounded red/orange/yellow hatches in surrounding states.

There should be phone charger battery vending machines in hospitals. Those things would make a lot of money.

In related news, I’m at 10%. 🪫

#emergencyroom #hospitals

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Pediatric staffing never recovered to pre-omicron levels. Rather, near one in five pediatric beds reported May of 2022: now missing.

PICU Capacity Level (not shown): 70%.

Weekly average ~80 PICU beds were covid patients.

We're failing our kids. The emergency is over.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Pediatric Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for pediatric Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through October 28, 2023. Hash marks—indicating PICU beds—overlay bottom of each stacked area.

Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (85%), Pediatric Capacity Level (70%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied pediatric beds to total staffed pediatric beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals with pediatric beds reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.

Capacity was climbing toward 55K, with climbing occupancy, before plummeting to under 10K in Jan '22. Feb '22 saw gain toward 45K; above in May of that year, before trending down to now below 40K.

Health #insurance companies have turned to algorithms to effectively deny claims in batches.

Has your claim been subject to one of these denials?

You can try finding out by submitting a request for your claim file:

https://projects.propublica.org/claimfile/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Health #HealthCare #Patients #Doctors #Hospitals

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Panel 1 shows someone filling out a questionnaire on their laptop. Caption reads:
"1. Answer a few questions to generate a PDF of your claim file request letter."

Panel 2 shows a hand placing an envelope into a mail drop.
Caption reads:
"2. Mail, fax or upload the completed letter to your health insurer."

Panel 3 shows someone receiving a packet in their mailbox.
Caption reads:
"3. Your claim file request should be fulfilled within 30 days."

Panel 4 shows someone using their phone, reading an email that says "Have you gotten your claim file yet?"
Caption reads:
"4. If you agree to be contacted, we’ll email you later to see if you’ve received your file."

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Capacity Level has been elevated since independence from the virus was declared three summers ago—as fewer & fewer professionals have been available to staff hospital beds.

Critical Staffing Level, already at 2021 levels, has been further elevated for near a year—with over one in nine reporting hospitals at critical shortage.

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #hospitals #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #nurses #MassDisablingEvent #CovidIsAirborne #BringBackMasks #dataviz #datavis

Chart: Hospital Capacity: United States
Data: U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

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Stacked area chart of daily 7-day averages for Unoccupied Beds, Non-Covid Beds, and Acute Covid Beds, for the period from August 2020 through November 4, 2023.

Hash marks overlay bottom of each stacked area—indicating ICU beds. Dotted lines indicate historical and current Hospitals Surveyed (84%), Hospital Capacity Level (75%) and Critical Staffing Level (12%). First has fallen off as psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals have gone to once-annual reporting; second is the ratio of total occupied beds to total staffed beds, nationally; last the ratio of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages as a share of those that answered said question either 'yes' or 'no'.

From October 2020 forward, top of the total stack trends downward. A diagonal notation along the top edge reads: "Reported staffed beds have been declining on average ~770 a week for ~3 years." Reported staffed beds are down again after a slight recovery in recent weeks.

#BBCNews - #Israel #Gaza : #Hospitals caught on front line of war
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67401064

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Final mortality data for 2020—released on Friday—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.

[CDC data for 2021 due this year.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #LongCovid #MassDisablingEvent #liver #accident #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy

Chart: Select Causes of Death: Reported Annual Data
Data: NCHS, Census. Accidents figure for 2022 is provisional (not final).

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2021 for causes liver disease & self-harm; through 2022 for accidents (unintentional injuries). Dotted lines indicate trendlines for Jan 2020 forward, for each cause category.

Legend:

* Accidents (unintentional injuries) (+45K more annual deaths vs. 2019)
* Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (+12.2K)
* Intentional self-harm (suicide) (+0.7K)
* Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Accidents (unintentional injuries) have returned to their pre-pandemic standing as third leading cause of death in the United States. While deaths for which covid-19 was the attributed underlying cause of death were, indeed, down from prior two calendar years, 2022 saw many more deadly accidents than would have been predicted based on 2015-2019 trendline. Were it not for this sustained spike in accidental deaths, covid would have retained third place.

Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis saw a near identical jump in relative mortality over the first two years of the pandemic. As of yet, only provisional figures for 2022’s top four causes of death are available. (Final “statistics”—if not “data”—for all causes might be available end of this year.)

Despite discourse about suicide rates in recent years, intentional self-harm deaths were still below trendline as of 2021’s final mortality figures.

Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data
Data: National Center for Health Statistics

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 through 2020. Chart is blank 2021 to 2022.

Legend:
• Accidental poisoning and exposure to noxious substances (up 32.9% btw. 2019 & 2020) [~87K total in 2020]
• Motor vehicle accidents (up 8.4%) [42K]
• Falls (up 6.8%) [42K]
• Accidental hanging, strangulation, and suffocation (down -4.1%) [7K]
• Accidental drowning and submersion (up 13.1%) [4K]
• Accidental exposure to smoke, fire, and flames (up 9.6%) [3K]
• Accidental discharge of firearms (up 10.1%) [½K]
• All other unintentional injuries (down -1.2%) [15K]

[A table below the legend ranks these items by rate of change.]

Captions:

Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. It took nearly thirty-three months to release final data for 2020. Data for 2021 remains significantly overdue.

----

Despite popular conjecture, the observed sharp increase in accidental deaths between 2019 and 2020 was not due to motor vehicle accidents.

Rather, accidental poisonings—up by a third over the prior year—account for nearly all the increase in elevated deaths by accidental causes.

"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.

Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺

Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺

[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]

❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #hospitals #nurses #HeartDisease #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Dementia #Sepsis #Cancer #Covid19 #DeathCult

Chart: Elevated Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Deviation from 2015-2019 Average
Data: Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Census Bureau. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines for annual data for years 2015 (as of January 1, 2016) through 2020, with solid dots for annualized data weekly from January 2021 through late July 2023. [Six weeks of subsequent CDC data incomplete, thus omitted from this chart.] Dotted lines indicate trendlines from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category.

Legend:

• Hypertensive disease (+31K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Cerebrovascular diseases (+13K)
• Heart failure (+4K)
• Ischemic heart disease (-3K)
• Other diseases of the circulatory system (+7K)
• Projected U.S. population

Caption:

Heart failure mortality stands out as having declined during the pandemic, remaining well below historical trendline to this day.

Ischemic heart disease deaths increased during the first year, but have been more or less declining toward baseline since then. (Notably, ischemic heart disease is the only subgroup to have been on a downward trajectory pre-pandemic.)

Hypertensive, cerebrovascular, and other diseases of the circulatory system, though each seeing declining annualized mortality in recent months, each remain well above their respective historical trendlines.

Chart: Elevated Non-Circulatory Causes of Death: Annualized Dev. from 2015-2019
Avg Data: CDC, Census. Reflects death certs that do not identify covid as underlying cause.

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Dashed lines 2015–20; solid dots for annualized Jan 2021–June 2023. [Six weeks incomplete data omitted.] Dotted lines for trends from Jan 2020 forward, for each disease category. Dash-dot line for sepsis trend had concerted effort at reduction in 2019 not occurred.

Legend:

• Diabetes (+10K more annualized deaths vs. 2019)
• Alzheimers and dementia (+18K)
• Renal failure (+5K)
• Sepsis (+4K)
• Malignant neoplasms (+14K)
• Projected U.S. 65+ population

Caption:

After spiking in first year of the pandemic, annualized Alzheimer disease and dementia mortality dropped just as swiftly, thereafter remaining near or below historical trend.

Diabetes mortality has not been so quick to recover from first year spike, only beginning to decline in the second half of last year, though still well above pre-pandemic trend.

Deaths by sepsis were markedly down in 2019, following a coordinated national effort by hospitals. Despite this, sepsis mortality has been climbing at a rate well above even pre-2019’s relatively flat trendline, for over three years now.

Renal failure deaths didn’t see an appreciable climb until the latter part of 2021, peaking only months ago. Meanwhile, malignant neoplasm (cancer) deaths, slower to manifest, have been suggestively creeping above trend for well over a year.

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Counties by adult ICU capacity (circle-hatched on map above):

⒈ Marshall, KY ≥150%
⒉ Lincoln, MS ≥150%

⒊ Montgomery, AL—110%

⒋ Alachua, FL—101%

⒌ Lynchburg city, VA—100%
⒍ Muskegon, MI—100%
⒎ Clearfield, PA—100%
⒏ Jackson, MS—100%
⒐ Anoka, MN—100%
⒑ Laurens, GA—100%

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