US hospitals rush to find beds for surge of virus patients

In this photo provided by Kelly McCarty, McCarty is shown with her husband, Bill, and their daughter Langley. Kelly McCarty is one of several dozen expectant Moms who had planned to give birth in the birthing center of Swedish Medical Center's facility in Edmonds, Wash., north of Seattle, but instead will go to an affiliated hospital in Everett, Wash., because the Edmonds birthing center is being repurposed to treat victims of the new coronavirus.

In New York, the city’s convention center is being turned into a temporary hospital. At Mount Sinai Morningside hospital, heart surgeons, cardiologists and cardiovascular nurses now care for coronavirus patients in a converted cardiac unit. Floating hospitals from the U.S. Navy are heading to Los Angeles and, eventually, New York. Military mobile hospitals are promised to Washington state.

“Better to be over-prepared than react in the moment,” said Melissa Short, who directs women’s health for Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center, which is using data from China and Italy as it attempts to double its capacity to 2,000 beds. Swedish’s Edmonds facility — where McCarty had planned to deliver — announced Saturday it is closing its 7th floor birth center temporarily, gaining 35 beds for the expected influx. McCarty will go instead to an affiliated hospital in Everett.

Beds don't take care of patients. We need medical staff to do so.

YOU SAID THAT RIGHT FUTURE WAVE OF CASES, WE DON'T HAVE THEM NOW AS REPORTED GOP DON'T GET TGEIR WAY MORE WILL SHOW UP, THIS IS GLOBAL C A B A A L MASS MURDER AND IF YOU AREN'T WITH US, YOU ARE GOING DOWN WITH THEM!

One must ask, I thought about this, wasn’t this considered and initiated earlier⁉️ I came up with one major item: The radical, power hungry 🥴 soy Pelosi and her goon squad holding America and stimulus 💵 hostage to show her Azz! This could have been started 7-10 days ago!TY 🥴‼️

Yet, world leaders have known of this 'threat' for a couple of decades, and they did nothing to prepare. How convenient. Blame Trump syndrome.

Where are they going to put all the pregnant Russian women who flew in so their kids could have dual citizenship and later spy on the US?

They want you to stay indoors forever.

But trump says Easter is a goooooooooo

Sure just write something useful on the box oka

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