Stuck in the hospital

Front-page story in today's Boston Globe: Patients 'stuck' in hospitals complicate care
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It's worth noting that COVID isn't responsible for the overcrowding; however, hospital capacity is part of the state's COVID data, and the impact of the discharge backlog is visible. Last week's report showed that only around 6.4% of the state's 8,715 non-ICU hospital beds were available for new patients. Actually discharging all the folks who are stuck in hospital waiting for discharge would nearly quadruple the number of available beds. Alas, there's no single easy fix.

Yet another Trumpian first: first Federal arraignment

For the first time ever, a former President of the United States was arrested and arraigned on federal charges this afternoon:

( It's arraigning men, hallelujah, it's arraigning men )

Apparently there wasn't a huge crowd of Trump supporters demanding his release in the streets of Miami today, although there were some colorful characters:

( pig-headedness, Miami-style? )