Press conference today with four OK health systems reps. You already know what they said:
“No hospital is adequately equipped for the scenario that this pandemic has forced us into, which is that so many people with one condition – COVID-19 – are coming to the hospital needing a very high level of care,” said Bahar Malakouti, M.D., a neurohospitalist and Stroke Medical Director at Mercy Hospital. “Unless something changes, the care we provide to all of our patients will be compromised. Our healthcare providers and staff are under incredible pressure right now.”
Hey Malakouti, here’s ICU data for your hospital. Notice that Mercy stopped reporting 142 ICU beds back in November of last year. That’s because, in the midst of a ginned up crisis, hospitals were allowed to change the way they calculated occupancy. Why in gods name were they allowed to fiddle with the numbers in such a deceptive way? You’ve got plenty of unused, licensed ICU beds, so pleae, STFU.
Here’s ICU occupancy for the state over the course of the entire “pandemic”:
Oklahoma’s hospitals are overrun?
If we’re still falling for this garbage then maybe we deserve it. These white collar thugs have all the media connections. They make their calls, set a date, fabricate their numbers, and then deliver them in somber tones before their kept stenographers. The public buys it, and local governments act on it.
