Special Board of Aldermen 12-21-2021 Page 25
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health and Community Services
President Wilshire did you want the number. | know that Alderwoman Lu asked for the availability of the hospital beds
so | just pulled this number up. This information can be found on the State's website under COVID-19.
Unidentified Female Speaker
Let the public speak.
President Wilshire
Jeff, can you the people on Zoom please? Sorry.
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health and Community Services
Yes, so this information can be found on the State's website COVID-19.nh.go. For our 193 card to the hospital group
where there's 13 hospitals. Right now they have 221 individuals that are confirmed with COVID that are hospitalized.
Three that are people they are still looking to get their results. The ICU bed availability is 2.8%, which is low. Total
number of staff hospital beds available is at 10.6%. So most of these hospitals are at capacity and as | mentioned in
our call with the hospitals on Monday, both of them reported very high census. They were holding patients in the ED.
They had a high number of positive individual patients with COVID in house. Most of the ICU beds were full. In fact,
one hospital had all the ICU beds full and the other had to open up a secondary ICU unit. So our hospitals are being
taxed and this is right now - remember the graph that | showed — we’re in a decrease, right?
What we're asking for this next month is for coverage to be in place to keep those numbers down because if the
hospitals are already stressed where we're in the downward slant right now, when those numbers go back up, this is
going to be worse for the hospitals. Individuals that are there in the ICU beds, the majority of them are COVID
patients, but some of them are not. It has already been explained that individuals that have COVID if they're in ICU
beds, they're going to be there longer, which means there's no bed. God forbid | got into an accident tonight, there's
no bed for me in these hospitals and this is what we're talking about. We still have other things that are going on.
One of our hospitals talked about people that are having diabetic emergencies, stroke, cardiovascular has gone up.
As soon as that snow hits, you see more cardiovascular things, more heart things going on. You can't stress these
hospitals any more than their own stressed. We talked about the fact that this is statewide. Dr. Stephanie Wolf-
Rosenblum talked about calling around so that mean we’re even call in hospitals beyond out of our State -
Massachusetts, and there are no beds. So again, we're just we're asking for something that will help all of us
Unidentified Female Speaker
Stop firing the nurses.
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health and Community Services
The kids are going to go on break. They've got to come back to school. We don't want to see the cases go up in the
schools either.
Unidentified Male Speaker
Vote no.
Bobbie Bagley, Director of Public Health and Community Services
This measure of putting the mask on if it's too slow and decrease the amount of transmission that's going to be in the
community because people are going to gather together for the holidays. People are traveling. We know that there's
going to be more virus in our communities. We want to just stop the transmission of the virus in this time period and
we’re asking for your help to get that done.
President Wilshire
Alderman O’Brien, is there anyone else on Zoom?
