Bear Down Wildcats

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:50 pm If they’re vaxxed, let them play. Stop acting like these rapid tests are conclusive of anything.

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:50 pm If they’re vaxxed, let them play. Stop acting like these rapid tests are conclusive of anything.

ChooChooCat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:52 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:50 pm If they’re vaxxed, let them play. Stop acting like these rapid tests are conclusive of anything.

This already FFS.

19 states have fewer than 15% of ICU beds left as health care staffing shortages complicate care

(CNN)As a record number of Americans are infected with Covid-19, largely due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, some states' health care systems are beset with nearly full intensive care units.

Nineteen states have less than 15% remaining capacity in their ICUs.

Four of them have less than 10%: Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana and New Hampshire, according to data Wednesday from the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The other states are: Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont, according to HHS.

Nationally, the number of people hospitalized in the US with Covid-19 has reached a record high -- 151,261 as of Wednesday. And as infection spreads, states and health care systems nationwide are handling shortages of available medical workers, who face a greater chance of Covid-19 exposure and must isolate after testing positive.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/health/u ... index.html

And, from NPR this morning"

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The United States has hit a new pandemic record. There are now more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic. If you doubt this, visit an emergency room. NPR's Will Stone reports.

WILL STONE, BYLINE: America's astronomical number of infections can feel abstract. But in emergency rooms, they are concrete - excruciating wait times, patients filling the waiting rooms, unable to get a bed.

GABE KELEN: This is about as bad as I can recall in my lifetime.

STONE: That's Dr. Gabe Kelen, chair of emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.

KELEN: The emergency departments are, like, the one open venue for everybody, and we are being absolutely crushed.

STONE: They're putting patients outside in tents or keeping them in the hallways, wherever they can find space. Maryland is in especially bad shape, but it's a similar picture all over the country, including in Tucson, Ariz., where ER doctor Bradley Dreifuss works.

BRADLEY DREIFUSS: Literally, there are patients in our emergency department who have been there for over 200 hours waiting for a placement.

STONE: That is, they're on a gurney in the hallway, waiting for an actual hospital bed. Problem is there are none.

DREIFUSS: Our hospitals are totally full. We're not able to admit patients. We don't even have admitting teams currently. We are not able to get patients where they need to be because our system is literally collapsing.

STONE: Dreifuss is seeing the fallout firsthand - patients leaving the ER only to come back later even more sick.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:39 pm It’s not vaccinated folks that are failing the healthcare system

pc in NM wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:45 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:39 pm It’s not vaccinated folks that are failing the healthcare system

Agreed 100%

However, in New Mexico 15-20 percent of those being hospitalized for COVID are vaccinated - I haven't heard the data for Arizona.
Proportionately, unvaccinated are being infected and hospitalized at a far greater rate, but that 15-20% is a significant part of the impact now during Omicron surge...

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:39 pm It’s not vaccinated folks that are failing the healthcare system

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:22 pm Where's POM for the game thread?

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:36 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:22 pm Where's POM for the game thread?

Getting the pitchforks and torches out of my garage. Anyone have an address?

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:40 pm

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:36 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:22 pm Where's POM for the game thread?

Getting the pitchforks and torches out of my garage. Anyone have an address?

The Bruins got their Tiki Torches and marched: "You will not reschedule us!"

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:15 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:39 pm It’s not vaccinated folks that are failing the healthcare system

Damn Right! It's the piss drinking shiteaters.

RichardCranium wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:03 am

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:15 pm

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:39 pm It’s not vaccinated folks that are failing the healthcare system

Damn Right! It's the piss drinking shiteaters.

Didn't we have a urine drinking expert around here at one time?

YoDeFoe wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:40 pm Not one word, Spiff. I don't care if its OJ, Jessica, or Homer - I don't want to hear the name.

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:20 am Simpson was really good in the first half. He was slicing us up.

I thought it was a mistake not to start him in the second half. He came in fairly quickly but you could tell it took him a few possessions to ramp back up his energy and by then we were up double digits. Credit to Lloyd and the boys for playing him much tougher the last 20 minutes too. Didn’t let him get a clean look.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:53 am Being an AZ fan I am always ready for something bad to happen....

Our 8 man rotation is set in stone and I am assuming Aiken is done... but if we happen to lose anyone for a period of time... do we think Bal or Nowell could give us any minutes to fill in any possible gaps?

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:23 am Looking ahead, here are our remaining reg season games (predicted wins in bold):

Utah
@Stanford
@Cal
@UCLA
ASU
UCLA
USC
@WSU
@UW
OSU
Oregon
@Utah
@Colorado
Stanford
Cal

This doesn't include postponed games vs. USC and ASU. Not sure those will get played.

It would be pretty crazy to get through the entire Pac schedule with one loss, but avoiding road games @USC and @Oregon makes this a very real possibility. Knowing AZ, we'll probably get an unexpected loss on the road somewhere. Maybe Stanford or Colorado.

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:23 am Looking ahead, here are our remaining reg season games (predicted wins in bold):

Utah
@Stanford
@Cal
@UCLA
ASU
UCLA
USC
@WSU
@UW
OSU
Oregon
@Utah
@Colorado
Stanford
Cal

This doesn't include postponed games vs. USC and ASU. Not sure those will get played.

It would be pretty crazy to get through the entire Pac schedule with one loss, but avoiding road games @USC and @Oregon makes this a very real possibility. Knowing AZ, we'll probably get an unexpected loss on the road somewhere. Maybe Stanford or Colorado.

Postmaster wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:08 pm I don’t know how you overlook Battey as a dynamic perimeter player.

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:12 pm

Postmaster wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:08 pm I don’t know how you overlook Battey as a dynamic perimeter player.

He’s certainly hard to miss.

Spaceman Spiff wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:02 pm Who knows. The last three games we've played were probably our ugliest of the year. Of course, UW and Rado were home games vs meh opponents so they were also both double figure W's.

This is the time of year where the dog days sort of hit and you get results you wouldn't expect.

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:52 pm

Spaceman Spiff wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:02 pm Who knows. The last three games we've played were probably our ugliest of the year. Of course, UW and Rado were home games vs meh opponents so they were also both double figure W's.

This is the time of year where the dog days sort of hit and you get results you wouldn't expect.

Our team just looks hungry and dialed in. They have lapses because, well, they're all like 19 or 20 years old. But the ceiling is high for this team. I think the second half of that Illinois game was a glimpse of this team at its best. Koloko defending, Kriisa hitting big shots and Benn being Benn.

I love our chances to win the Pac, and I really love our chances to get on a roll in the tourney.

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 pm As much as people here hate to hear it WISKY is good, has a guy we will just funkin hate and averages 7-8 TO per game.

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 pm As much as people here hate to hear it WISKY is good, has a guy we will just funkin hate and averages 7-8 TO per game.

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:35 pm

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 pm As much as people here hate to hear it WISKY is good, has a guy we will just funkin hate and averages 7-8 TO per game.

Well, we owe them payback. Bring em on.

Got a little payback vs. Duke in '11 for the '01 title game. How about getting some payback vs. Wisconsin this year for '14 and '15?

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 pm As much as people here hate to hear it WISKY is good, has a guy we will just funkin hate and averages 7-8 TO per game.

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 pm As much as people here hate to hear it WISKY is good, has a guy we will just funkin hate and averages 7-8 TO per game.

Spaceman Spiff wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:15 pm

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 pm As much as people here hate to hear it WISKY is good, has a guy we will just funkin hate and averages 7-8 TO per game.

Wisconsin was when I began to believe we were genuinely cursed.