Anonymous ID: 12129c March 20, 2020, 7:28 p.m. No.8496652   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6660

Best way to track coronavirus severity? Hospitalizations. Oregon stopped reporting it

 

Despot Governor Kate Brown hiding data/truth again

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/best-way-to-track-coronavirus-severity-hospitalizations-oregon-stopped-reporting-it/ar-BB11uelj

 

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Spicer debuts as WH reporter during heated briefing

 

As Oregon prepares for a surge of seriously ill coronavirus patients, state health

officials have stopped disclosing vital information that would tell Oregonians how bad the outbreak is.

 

The Oregon Health Authority this week stopped publicly reporting how many patients are hospitalized with

the deadly virus, making it impossible for the public to track the growing severity of the novel coronavirus.

 

With testing still severely limited, an expert told lawmakers Friday that hospitalizations are the state’s

best way to track the outbreak’s trend.

 

“Hospitalizations don’t lie,” Peter Graven, Oregon Health and Science University’s lead data scientist,

said in a legislative hearing. “Whether or not you’ve been tested, if you get sick enough, you’re going to

show up at the hospital. The number we want to watch is our hospitalization rate.”

 

After questions from numerous media outlets, the Oregon Health Authority said late Friday that it would

resume posting hospitalizations on Saturday.

 

On Thursday, authority spokesman Jonathan Modie said the agency stopped sharing it because of an increase

in commercial lab testing. That left health officials unable to determine whether the patients were in

hospitals when they tested positive, he said.

 

Still, hospitals across the state are coordinating their responses with the authority, which closely tracks

influenza and other disease outbreaks, making it highly unlikely the state officials leading Oregon’s

response to a global pandemic couldn’t say how many COVID-19 patients are in hospitals.

 

By Friday, Modie said Oregon would start posting the hospitalization numbers again the next day. He the

authority was aware of 40 people being hospitalized among the 115 coronavirus cases identified in Oregon.

 

Gov. Kate Brown on Friday deflected a question about disclosing hospitalizations, repeating what she has

said before: That she’s concerned about the privacy of people who’ve tested positive. People connected to

the veteran’s nursing home in Lebanon, where 14 patients have tested positive, were kicked out of a

restaurant and school, she said.

 

Oregon is giving the public less information about its test results than neighboring Washington. Though Brown

pledged transparency in the state’s response, the Oregon Health Authority isn’t saying how many people older

than 80 have tested positive, the group experts consider the most at risk. Oregon instead lumps together

everyone older than 55.

 

In Washington, 60% of the deaths are in people older than 80, even though that age group represents just 16%

of reported cases.

 

Oregon health officials did not answer repeated questions this week about how many beds are open in the state’s

hospitals – a vital issue with a possible surge coming.

 

Though Oregon tracks occupancy and hospitals report it, health authority officials won’t say how full the state’s

hospitals currently are, even with an unprecedented effort underway to free up beds. Its officials didn’t answer

repeated questions about how many hospital beds are currently available.

 

Oregon has 6,821 beds and 655 ICU beds statewide. The state’s hospital beds are typically 68% full, according to

an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid cost reports data. It’s among the highest

occupancy rates in the nation.

 

Oregon also has the fewest hospital beds per 1,000 residents in the nation, the result of a concerted effort

to keep people from being hospitalized.

 

OHSU’s Graven created a model to determine how many of those beds would be needed if Oregon didn’t close schools

and limit gatherings.

 

Without any social distancing efforts, he found, Oregon would need 1,000 beds and 400 ICU beds just for

coronavirus patients by April 16.

cont. in article..

Anonymous ID: 12129c March 20, 2020, 7:37 p.m. No.8496762   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6794 >>6869 >>6986 >>7024

>>8496660

>Do people still believe this?

No the point being the criminal that was appointed by the previous criminal Governor John Kitzhaber is still up to her same bullshit.

We are going to need moar gallows.

 

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber quits amid criminal probe

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/13/oregon-governor-resigns/23365451/

 

When a Governor quits due to corruption anyone they appointed should go with them.

Rather than passing the torch to the next criminal in line.

Anonymous ID: 12129c March 20, 2020, 7:42 p.m. No.8496821   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>8496585

Confirmed from 10 minutes ago:

 

Oregon leaders: Stay home unless it’s essential. It’s time to sacrifice to save lives

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregon-leaders-reinforce-message-that-residents-should-stay-home-unless-its-essential.html

Anonymous ID: 12129c March 20, 2020, 7:46 p.m. No.8496881   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>8496794

kek thanks but 2015 …prior to Flush it Down Kate Brown

She took over after he left due to corruption and then was even worse than him ( no surprise connected to Jerry Brown previous CA governor).

All of them need to be exiled from the planet.