February 3, 2022

Aspirus: Post-acute care needs ‘significantly rising’ during COVID-19 pandemic (Tomahawk Leader)

Tomahawk Leader: Aspirus: Post-acute care needs ‘significantly rising’ during COVID-19 pandemic. “The Aspirus Home Medical Equipment (AHME) team has seen a ‘steep increase’ in patients requiring home oxygen therapy, according to the release. Aspirus said AHME averaged about 20 new oxygen patients per month before the COVID-19 pandemic. That number rose to around 40 new oxygen patients per month early in the pandemic and spiked to 172 new oxygen patients in Jan. 2022.”

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September 5, 2021

KITV: State secures supply of oxygen, expected to arrive in Honolulu over Labor Day weekend

KITV: State secures supply of oxygen, expected to arrive in Honolulu over Labor Day weekend. “The Hawaii Department of Emergency Management agency worked with multiple agencies to secure about 35,000 gallons of liquid oxygen. It’s expected to be in Honolulu tomorrow. HI-EMA reports the daily consumption of medical grade oxygen across the state has increased by more than 200% since the beginning of August.”

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September 4, 2021

The Hill: Texas oil refinery partially suspends operations, citing oxygen supply shortage

The Hill: Texas oil refinery partially suspends operations, citing oxygen supply shortage . “Sulfur recovery units use oxygen in an effort to retrieve sulfur, which comes from raw materials, to meet the chemical element’s emissions standards. A Texas environmental filing noted that Citgo Petroleum Corp. had halted part of that unit’s operations due to a higher medical need for oxygen in the area, Bloomberg noted.”

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August 30, 2021

CNN: First, surges in Covid-19 infections led to shortages of hospital beds and staff. Now it’s oxygen

CNN: First, surges in Covid-19 infections led to shortages of hospital beds and staff. Now it’s oxygen. “Hospitals in parts of the South are running out of oxygen supply as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue soaring, driven by the swaths of people who remain unvaccinated and a dangerous coronavirus variant that has infected millions of Americans. Several hospitals in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana are struggling with oxygen scarcity. Some are at risk of having to use their reserve supply or risk running out of oxygen imminently, according to state health officials and hospital consultants.”

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August 27, 2021

Tampa Bay Times: Tampa Bay Water asks users to cut back as COVID-19 saps oxygen supplies

Tampa Bay Times: Tampa Bay Water asks users to cut back as COVID-19 saps oxygen supplies. “Efforts to keep the sickest COVID-19 patients breathing are draining resources across the state and in Tampa Bay — creating competition between hospitals and municipal water systems for crucial supplies of liquid oxygen. For hospitals, oxygen is easier to store as a liquid in the large volumes they now require for COVID-19 patients. For many municipal water systems, liquid oxygen is a key component in water purification.”

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August 26, 2021

Survey: 68 Florida Hospitals Have Less Than 48 Hours Worth Of Oxygen (WMFE)

WMFE: Survey: 68 Florida Hospitals Have Less Than 48 Hours Worth Of Oxygen. “The Florida Hospital Association is sounding the alarm, saying a survey shows 68 hospitals have less than a 48-hour supply of oxygen. Hospitals are using three to four times as much oxygen as they were before the pandemic because more than 17,000 patients are hospitalized statewide with COVID-19. The FHA survey, which was done today, shows 68 hospitals have less than 48 hours worth of supply, with about half of these have less than 36 hours.”

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August 26, 2021

COVID-19 oxygen demand delaying launches from SpaceX and ULA (Click Orlando)

Click Orlando: COVID-19 oxygen demand delaying launches from SpaceX and ULA. “Despite a breakneck cadence of launches during the first half of the year, neither Cape Canaveral Space Force Station nor Kennedy Space Center have hosted a mission since June 30. Had the cadence held, the spaceport was well on its way to approaching a record-breaking 40 to 50 launches in 2021. But changing demands for oxygen have forced suppliers to prioritize hospitals overrun with COVID patients – and high-priority customers like launch providers are not immune to seeing their tanks slowly lose pressure.”

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August 20, 2021

Orlando urges reduced water usage; liquid oxygen used to treat water is needed for COVID patients (Orlando Sentinel)

Orlando Sentinel: Orlando urges reduced water usage; liquid oxygen used to treat water is needed for COVID patients. “The city of Orlando and its water utility on Friday appealed to residents to cut back sharply on water usage for at least several weeks because of a pandemic-triggered shortage of liquid oxygen used to treat water. Orlando Utilities Commission consumes 10 tankers of liquid oxygen each week to remove odor and color from water. A sharp increase in the usage of liquid oxygen by hospitals in treating COVID-19 patients has resulted in short supplies for other uses.”

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August 7, 2021

Bloomberg Law: Florida’s Oxygen Woes Cue Coming Wave of Covid Supply Shortages

Bloomberg Law: Florida’s Oxygen Woes Cue Coming Wave of Covid Supply Shortages. “Health centers in the state are grappling with shortages of drivers who can transport oxygen, a critical resource for hospitalized Covid-19 patients, and restrictions on how long they can be on the road. Industry professionals expect similar obstacles to expand around the U.S. for other essential supplies.”

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March 9, 2021

NBC News: Texans recovering from Covid-19 needed oxygen. Then the power went out.

NBC News: Texans recovering from Covid-19 needed oxygen. Then the power went out.. “Mauricio Marin felt his heart tighten when the power flicked off at his Richmond, Texas, home on the evening of Feb. 14, shutting down his plug-in breathing machine. Gasping, he rushed to connect himself to one of the portable oxygen tanks his doctors had sent home with him weeks earlier to help his lungs recover after his three-week stay in a Covid-19 intensive care unit. Between the two portable tanks, he calculated, he had six hours of air.”

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December 7, 2020

Pakistan: Covid patients die due to oxygen shortage in Peshawar (BBC)

BBC: Pakistan: Covid patients die due to oxygen shortage in Peshawar. “Six coronavirus patients have died in a hospital in Pakistan after oxygen supplies ran too low. Patients’ relatives have described how they begged for help as panic engulfed the government-run hospital in the northern city of Peshawar. A delay in deliveries meant more than 200 patients were left for hours on reduced oxygen.”

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