13 days ago at our last Board of County Commissioners' meeting- I asked the CEO's of the area's three Hospitals for the total numbers of ventilators possessed locally, and the numbers utilized and the numbers vacant.
These are numbers I want to see reported to the county's Emergency Operations Center daily. This would be useful information for the citizens to know.
Why?
To me, this will be the earliest indicator of a significant problem locally the likes of which we are seeing in New York, New Orleans, New Jersey and Washington State. This number, the number utilized as a percentage of the total available, will be our area's "canary in the coal mine" early warning system.
So I have requested and I will continue to push for this metric to be provided daily and placed on our daily SITREP. I'll report that here as well.
Just today, I received a current report--updated since my blog post of Saturday.
Here's our current status:
"Here are the number of ventilators at the hospitals:
Total Number - 227
Total Available – 188
Total In-use - 39"
NOTE: Sacred Heart Hospital has reported an increased total number of ventilators available today as compared to last week---thus the increase today of total number of ventilators since my first post on this topic Saturday.
NOTE: Sacred Heart Hospital has reported an increased total number of ventilators available today as compared to last week---thus the increase today of total number of ventilators since my first post on this topic Saturday.
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