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That did not work so well with Katrina. Generators did not support hospital AC systems. And many of the circut break boxes they supplied power too were flooded. Those 4,000 Army helicopters did not evacuate all the patients at Memorial hospital. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964?asin=0307718964&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

Assuming they learned from Katrina and regularly maintained/tested the generators.

Check this book out sometime. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964/ref=nodl_

The whole situation is one of the most horrific examples of incompetence, indifference, and greed, along with some people being put into a position to have to make some impossible ethical decisions.

A phenomenal book to read about how one hospital in New Orleans dealt with the devastation of Katrina is Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. From the synopsis: "In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos.

After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.

Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing."

for anyone who is interested in reading a horrific account of life in a hospital when the hurricane hit, i highly recommend this book. The life and death decisions that had to take place are absolutely third world. A fantastic and dark read for sure.

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https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964

Some real world examples too: Five Days at memorial. book

In this book. https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
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Sheri Fink talks about how the backup generators were on the 1st floor
which flooded and stoped working. There are 479 people on ventilators in hospitals. https://ldh.la.gov/Coronavirus/

For the people who haven’t heard the story of Memorial Hospital (now Oschner Baptist) during Katrina, you really should check it out! I honestly think everybody in medicine should at least know the story (even if you don’t have time to read the book). But let me warn ya, it’s not for the faint of heart. I’ll link the NYT article, the podcast episode, and the amazon link for the book!

NYT Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30doctors.html

Podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/playing-god

Book (amazon link): https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718964

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Medical_Center_and_Hurricane_Katrina