Great work, Igor! You are spot on. I’m an ICU RN, soon to be fired bc of mandate. My hospital is at capacity... for all the reasons you cited. Roughly 3/4 of our staff are vaccinated & THEY are getting sick too and missing shifts, adding to the staff shortage. And STILL the rush to get vaccinated/boosters continues. I’ve never seen anything like it. We’re used to dealing with Infectious & potentially deadly viruses/diseases. It mystifies me that so many of my coworkers succumbed to the madness back in 2020 and are still asleep.
Wow, what an interesting rabbit hole. I ran this for my local hospitals (6 hospitals in my IL county with a total of 1,860 beds) for the second week of November 2020/2021 and found that on average the COVID inpatient rate dropped 78.68% (which apparently includes influenza for some reason) and the non-COVID inpatient rate rose 17.69%. Perhaps even more telling for my county was the changes in ER visits. COVID positive visits (those that came to ER with covid-like illness and tested positive) decreased 36.20% over last year while non-COVID (covid-like illness that did not test positive) visits increased 53.57%. One hospital was down 63% for covid ER and up 106% for non-covid! A lot of data there to digest. Happy to send you my spreadsheet if interested.
I'm a physicist. I love numbers that can tell the truth about a situation. Thanks for the fun article, I'll have a good time looking at data for hospital in my city, part of "Tidal Health", which incidentally sports the world's ugliest logo.
Would add to include Vitamin K2 (not K1) along with magnesium in your nutrient regimen. , These are both seriously lacking in our current diets and are necessary nutrients to maximize the vitamin D hormone (and to minimize calcium problems).
just did it for my local hospital in San Jose, and for the main hospital in Marin County, CA. Very telling: definite decreases in COVID for both, but a large uptick (30 percent in San Jose, and 68 percent in Marin County) for non-Covid ICU counts year/year. Also, Marin is seeing a 27 percent increase in non-covid patients for hospital beds. Considering they are one of the most vaccinated counties in CA (94 percent have at least one dose, 83 percent two doses- I've even seen reports that 50 percent of their kids now has at least one dose), very interesting...thanks for this!
I'm going to try and follow your example for a few of the hospitals in my area but I find it interesting how you can create an ICU crisis by dropping ICU beds in 1/3:
Damn, this is a fine piece of real journalism. Who remembers the days when mainstream journalists actually tried to uncover the truth? Now we have to get the truth via obscure Substack writers. If you are a critical thinker you go out and find places like this but most people are just happy to be spoonfed propaganda disguised as "news". I really fear for the history of the human race. At this point we have to burn it all down and start from zero. The System has its tentacles everywhere, there is no aspect of society it doesn't influence. Cheers Igor.
Very neat, thank you for this. And choosing MI for an example is a good hit. We have. Democratic governor who went full into COVID measures last year and just now the news about MI are front page in the Guardian. Most people I’m sorry to say, are completely connected to the narrative.
You can check any state. While it does not break down to individual cities or regions, it does give a quick way to see if the statement is true or not and breaks down covid vs non covid admissions both in total inpatient and also in ICU - and one can compare to a year ago.
This is some very fine citizen journalism. Sharing exactly how you did this and providing a model that we all might follow is very helpful. Going to see what I can find later; right now the website you provided is saying the information is N/A for my local hospitals.
Thanks for the tip. I haven’t looked, but is this “hospital utilization chart” info usually publicly available? Our main hospital is Novant. I’d love to compare this month w last year! Sadly though, most will believe the unvaxxed are “flooding”….the truth for most is hard to find!
Great work, Igor! You are spot on. I’m an ICU RN, soon to be fired bc of mandate. My hospital is at capacity... for all the reasons you cited. Roughly 3/4 of our staff are vaccinated & THEY are getting sick too and missing shifts, adding to the staff shortage. And STILL the rush to get vaccinated/boosters continues. I’ve never seen anything like it. We’re used to dealing with Infectious & potentially deadly viruses/diseases. It mystifies me that so many of my coworkers succumbed to the madness back in 2020 and are still asleep.
Igor, you are such a talented reporter. I am so disgusted with this fearmongering. Which just promotes unjustified hatred of unvaxxed people.
Wow, what an interesting rabbit hole. I ran this for my local hospitals (6 hospitals in my IL county with a total of 1,860 beds) for the second week of November 2020/2021 and found that on average the COVID inpatient rate dropped 78.68% (which apparently includes influenza for some reason) and the non-COVID inpatient rate rose 17.69%. Perhaps even more telling for my county was the changes in ER visits. COVID positive visits (those that came to ER with covid-like illness and tested positive) decreased 36.20% over last year while non-COVID (covid-like illness that did not test positive) visits increased 53.57%. One hospital was down 63% for covid ER and up 106% for non-covid! A lot of data there to digest. Happy to send you my spreadsheet if interested.
in massachusetts if you can get the break out the breakthruoughs are about the same % of vaxx v un vaxxed.....
I'm a physicist. I love numbers that can tell the truth about a situation. Thanks for the fun article, I'll have a good time looking at data for hospital in my city, part of "Tidal Health", which incidentally sports the world's ugliest logo.
Would add to include Vitamin K2 (not K1) along with magnesium in your nutrient regimen. , These are both seriously lacking in our current diets and are necessary nutrients to maximize the vitamin D hormone (and to minimize calcium problems).
just did it for my local hospital in San Jose, and for the main hospital in Marin County, CA. Very telling: definite decreases in COVID for both, but a large uptick (30 percent in San Jose, and 68 percent in Marin County) for non-Covid ICU counts year/year. Also, Marin is seeing a 27 percent increase in non-covid patients for hospital beds. Considering they are one of the most vaccinated counties in CA (94 percent have at least one dose, 83 percent two doses- I've even seen reports that 50 percent of their kids now has at least one dose), very interesting...thanks for this!
I'm going to try and follow your example for a few of the hospitals in my area but I find it interesting how you can create an ICU crisis by dropping ICU beds in 1/3:
https://data.rgj.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity/facility/catholic-medical-center/300034/
Damn, this is a fine piece of real journalism. Who remembers the days when mainstream journalists actually tried to uncover the truth? Now we have to get the truth via obscure Substack writers. If you are a critical thinker you go out and find places like this but most people are just happy to be spoonfed propaganda disguised as "news". I really fear for the history of the human race. At this point we have to burn it all down and start from zero. The System has its tentacles everywhere, there is no aspect of society it doesn't influence. Cheers Igor.
Most excellent, Igor!! Thank you.
Very neat, thank you for this. And choosing MI for an example is a good hit. We have. Democratic governor who went full into COVID measures last year and just now the news about MI are front page in the Guardian. Most people I’m sorry to say, are completely connected to the narrative.
How long before people of Michigan see the relationship between heavy-handed statism and the gritty get-through-it leadership of Florida.
Whenever I hear a story that hospitals are overflowing in a particular state, I check this site: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend/michigan
You can check any state. While it does not break down to individual cities or regions, it does give a quick way to see if the statement is true or not and breaks down covid vs non covid admissions both in total inpatient and also in ICU - and one can compare to a year ago.
This is some very fine citizen journalism. Sharing exactly how you did this and providing a model that we all might follow is very helpful. Going to see what I can find later; right now the website you provided is saying the information is N/A for my local hospitals.
Thanks for the tip. I haven’t looked, but is this “hospital utilization chart” info usually publicly available? Our main hospital is Novant. I’d love to compare this month w last year! Sadly though, most will believe the unvaxxed are “flooding”….the truth for most is hard to find!
Great analysis, thank you. One question, assume this should be UNvaccinated?
"You can instantly conclude that the vaccinated are not at fault for hospitals being overrun."