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| According to the data contained last night's SITREP on COVID-19 as compared to Friday's same report---Ventilator numbers have increased, but the percentage of available ventilators total at area hospitals has decreased 12% in 4 days. Worth watching..... |
The members of the Escambia Board of County Commissioners are receiving multiple reports daily from multiple sources.
Add to this other information we see in the media and hear from our own circles of acquaintances--and it becomes almost an information overload.
But cutting through all of the noise daily like a giant arctic Icebreaker ship is the SITREP that our Emergency operations folks put together for us and send out each afternoon.
Here is the most recent SITREP from yesterday afternoon
Lots of good information in here from multiple sources all rolled up.
The intriguing data point I will remain fixed upon is the number of ventilators locally and the percentage of these open and available for patient use. This is a data point I believe we need to watch very closely as I have stated and for the reasons expressed previously here, here, and here.
In this one area--The percentage available has just dropped precipitously..... (just last Saturday--three days ago--- we had 86% available) Three days later we sit with 74% available......a 12 percentage point decrease in three days.
Currently, per last evening's sitrep--here is where we are in real time with ventilators at our three local hospitals:
218 Ventilators Total (up 14 from last 204 number due to the inclusion of Select Specialty Care's ventilator numbers)
162 Ventilators Available
74% Available
Thank you for continuing to press for this vital information, Commissioner Bergosh. Yes, ventilators have been and continue to be the lynch pin across the country, and Escambia is no different in that. Due to the undue influence of the tourism sector over every corner of our governance in Florida, we're more hard pressed in this state than others for transparency and truth in these matters (ironic, being a Sunshine state and all), so hats off to you for continuing to press for data and information as you always do.
ReplyDeleteAt the same moment this real-time tracking is crucial--and can't be let go of even as our hospitals start to fill and become overburdened--there simply *has* to be a swing in County administration into implementing every possible means of protecting its staff and citizenry through every way possible. There still seems to be a giant void in understanding there, in which they have to be dragged kicking and screaming by the press, their board, and, well, counter kicking and screaming to any action at all. There is so much that still can and needs to be done. Holing up in the EOC and "rolling up" information just because the BOCC has finally demanded it of them is not enough.
In the end, the question of ventilators will have the same answer as it has always had: we won't have enough, although hopefully our hospital administrators have done an effective job of competing for them on the open market that the Trump administration threw them into, after lying to them about a massive supply chain that was on the way weeks ago. From their appearances at the BOCC, they seem to be very smart and level headed people who are doing their best in the face of extremely difficult challenges.
So now that you and, during the meeting, Commissioner May have pressured this information out of your administration (were the hospitals really not giving it to them? Or were they throwing the hospitals under the bus? I'd trust our hospital admins before I'd trust Janice Gilley), please also pivot to include effective action in your purview. From the beginning, you recognized what could happen at the jail and how serious this could be. You also realized the disconnect in the data, called a spade a spade, and dragged it into the light of day.
We need you and our other leaders now to be in contact with successful administrative teams from other areas of the state and the country to see what things are imperative to be doing now, as a County. You're not going to get that sort of leadership or wherewithal from Escambia administration. So the citizens are counting on you and our other elected officials to work their information channels and figure out what needs to happen now to protect as many of our citizens as possible in the face of a certain epidemic here. After those steps are clear, put every pressure on administration to implement those best practices. Whether Ms. Gilley would prefer to remain in what appears to be negligent denial and willful ignorance or not.
--Melissa Pino
Kevin Wade Asks:
ReplyDelete1, There was a WEAR3 report about a gentleman who was tested on the 18th and told he would get a call about his results 8-10 days later.
This good gentle man was not called back about his test from the 18th.
This good gentle man was told nothing about his test when he repeatedly called day after day.
This good gentle man's girlfriend started to get sick so he they went to get her tested and th tester said sh would b getting a call back in 12 - 48 hours.
This good gentle man asked about the test results from his test on the 18th as he was surprised and elated that his girlfriend would know in that short a time and was concerned that he could be positive.
This good gentle man was told "Your test was lost on the 18th like, we 'lost' the tests from the 18th".
Were there more than the 518 or whatever the number was from the 18th?
How many were lost on the 18th?
Do not need a criminal investigations so the admin and the pony tail mafia can have a witch hunt and toss good people under the bus in a lack of true due process.
Th above is from a WEAR3 report that was out before the studio was shut down due to 2 employees being infected.
2. What are the protocols for the testings that have been in place.
How have those protocols changed day by day.
3. Which testing sites are using what test.
3. How and when have those testing sites and testing facilities changed because from #1. we know that some change has happened.
4. I want to applaud those helping to make the changes and solving problems in a new reality that can bring us all together alone.
I hope that the alliances forged now will be a lesson to the hospitals and testing facilities and the supply chains along with everyone involved.
Agility works best in a team and sadly competition in a world that only rewards efficiency do not value true agility and the ability to shift to new methods.
I hope that lessons learned in our testing chains are held dear and kept with open minds to change that in efficiency and ability to shift to new methods and protocols quickly.
One thing I've been having problems with is the lack of information regarding cleared cases and it needs to start being asked now.
ReplyDeleteWe keep seeing the total number of cases going up with each day..but at some point, these cases should have some resolutions whether they be recovered or, God forbid, deceased. At the very least, there's a disclaimer on the numbers of hospitalizations to where they admit those numbers aren't an active quantity but a cumulative one.