New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy arrives at the Edison Field Medical Station at the N.J. Convention & Exposition Center in Edison, New Jersey on April 8. Chris Pedota/The Record via AP
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said the state is "literally at the edge" in regards to the number of ventilators available to treat coronavirus patients.
There are 61 ventilators available in the state warehouses, New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said.
Persichilli said there is a concern about the number of ventilators, and that they are looking for another option.
"We do inventories of alternative ventilators, anesthesia machines, BiPAP machines, home ventilators," Persichilli said. "We’re having the most efficient and effective result with anesthesia machines, of which we have a lot of, but they do have to be modified.”
Murphy said officials were on the phone with the White House Saturday morning and expressed that ventilators are a priority.
Some context: The latest model projections report the hospitalizations in New Jersey will peak at 15,922 and ICU admissions will be about 3,821 –– but that changes daily, Persichilli said.
She believes the state will have bed spaces for everyone, but the concern continues to be the availability of personal protection equipment and ventilators.
Persichilli also said the USNS Comfort, a military hospital ship in New York City, will now be accepting patients from New Jersey hospitals.
Mnopq56 on April 11st, 2020 at 20:19 UTC »
I was just reading this article.
I was also reading other articles like it, talking about how we really respond in crisis and emergency. The interesting thing repeated in them is that people do not become as chaotic and unruly and as we imagine them in our nightmares.
Here is an excerpt from the linked article:
"The author concludes that all of us undergo a three-stage process when we find ourselves in mortal peril: denial, deliberation and the 'decisive moment,' during which the survivor buckles down and acts. The trick, she says, may be to understand our instincts, which, in a crisis, may betray us. Some people run toward infernos, not away, and even in the face of obvious impending disaster, some people just won't move. Ripley muses that this may be an old ingrained biological response — a version of 'playing dead.' "
So I guess all our leaders will use the excuse that they were "playing dead", to cover up for why they really moved slowly on decisive action. But next time we elect a president, I think we should put them through a vetting/proving process to see how they react in times of crisis... like how astronauts have to train for space flight by getting spun around like crazy in a flight simulation or being stuck in isolation while still on earth.
BumblesAZ on April 11st, 2020 at 18:56 UTC »
Soon to follow - newly declared legal holiday, “Pandemic Day”
GordsHuman on April 11st, 2020 at 18:42 UTC »
Wyoming was the final one