Guise, I have a relative who was at a CMS Quality conference yesterday. This was for Med Group leaders. They sent me a short video they recorded of the speaker talking about COVID-19 and how they should prepare. I don’t know how to get rid of their info on the video so they can’t be identified, so I will only post screen shots here. I made a transcript of it too. I have no official sauce, but maybe you can identify the Military man speaking? I have not been able to speak with my relative since it was sent. The last line about Omaha, Nebraska is what seems to be the plan as to where they will send infected people. Maybe a base? Not sure. 1/2
“… 300 beds for Respiratory diseases all with negative flow. Their system was overwhelmed a lot of the care was in situations like this. So I need to be very careful about what I say because I want to message to be clear: There is NO high risk right now, today, of COVID-19 within the United States. However, this could change and it could change quickly. As more and more countries have sustained transmission like Japan, like Korea, like Iran, like Italy, like China, our containment strategies will become less and less effective and we could see transmission and sustained transmission in the United States. What does that mean for you? If you look at some of the pandemic flu projections, even a moderate pandemic would add an extra 1 million hospitalizations and maybe a 1/4 million people in ICU and it could go up from that and we really do have to prepare for this. Not that it’s absolutely going to happen, but there is a clear risk of this happening within the country. So I think we need to start, and start now, or yesterday, planning for the kinds of things that your hospital would need to do in your system. This is straight off the CDC but it is absolutely common sense. You’re going to have to think about protecting your staff. Protect uninfected patients and staff from infectious patients. That means co-hoarding. That means using telehealth, home isolation, home quarantine and co-hoarding, Dedicated staff for different types of patients. All the things that you would think about that are in your pandemic plans. Not everybody was COVID-19 has to go to Omaha Nebraska, right? Most people are not sick, they can be …”
end of video
I haven’t been concerned about muh Coronavirus. If Q& Q+ aren’t worried, then I haven’t worried. Even with this, it seems like a flu virus. Just the part about Omaha seemed Interdasting. For what it’s worth, this is how the are prepping Health Groups.
If you get a NEST thermostat, then you can stay in bed to warm the house.
Speaker is US Assistant Secretary for a Health, Adm. Brett P. Giroir, MD. His resume is Interdasting. Worked on DARPA.
https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/brett-giroir/index.html
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