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emu22 t1_iw2u5ai wrote

Reply to comment by lizyouwerebeer in Farmington child hospitalized for RSV in Maine after family cannot find NH beds by every1getslaid

Exactly which is why MMC makes absolute sense from the beginning it’s one of the best hospitals in New England outside of Boston or Dartmouth.

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lizyouwerebeer t1_iw2vk54 wrote

https://www.mainehealth.org/News/2022/11/MaineHealth-and-Northern-Light-Health-warn-of-strained-capacity

"On Friday, Nov. 4, all 87 staffed pediatric beds at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center (BBCH) in Portland were occupied, and other pediatric patients were boarding in the MMC emergency department. The 37 staffed pediatric beds at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor were 97 percent full. "

https://wgme.com/amp/news/local/rsv-cases-hospital-bed-shortage-maine-children-northern-light-health-covid-19-cold-flu

I think the story here is that beds are becoming scarce for children.

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grandzooby t1_iw33d9o wrote

It's not even just beds, but "staffed beds". Many hospitals have the rooms/beds for pediatric patients but lack the staff to operate them. In my state, apparently requests for temp staffing have to be made over 8 weeks in advance. With an disease like RSV that can either be a nothing-burger or a serious epidemic within a shorter time-period than that, it's making it difficult for hospitals to staff in advance.

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emu22 t1_iw302c4 wrote

They were already scarce. That’s absolutely nothing new.

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lizyouwerebeer t1_iw30fml wrote

Why were pediatric beds scarce?

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emu22 t1_iw30ord wrote

I’ll let you read about that instead of answering.

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lizyouwerebeer t1_iw310b9 wrote

Yep I am reading about it. Pediatric beds are more scarce now then they were during covid. Happy to provide you some links because you seem either misguided or coldly nonchalant.

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grandzooby t1_iw322eb wrote

> coldly nonchalant

If the covid pandemic taught me anything is that there is much more casual psychopathy in the population than has ever been measured.

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lizyouwerebeer t1_iw32dt8 wrote

Yup covid has taught me no one gives a shit about the elderly and immunocompromised. Thought it would be different for CHILDREN though.

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SheeEttin t1_iw3qjxs wrote

"Think of the children" has been a meme for a reason. It gets trotted out all the time but it's only lip service.

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Connect_Stay_137 t1_iw3iil4 wrote

Especially democrats who put criminals in nursing homes during the peak pandemic and ran small businesses out of buisness :(

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NetHacks t1_iw3o5ba wrote

It's not worth it, this is the stupid response to this. The libertarian and republican response is that it's better to just let people die who get sick, instead of solving the problem so people don't have to die from preventable issues.

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CheliceraeJones t1_iw3xr07 wrote

Oh it's nothing new then? God forbid the news highlights an ongoing issue.

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emu22 t1_iw3zwji wrote

It’s been going on this entire time. I feel really bad that the younger generations are so ignorant about current events.

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