St. Joe's in Bellingham lost a bunch of COVID tests just today. The materials seized from PeaceHealth include vital test kit materials that are needed to run in-house analyzer machines, PeaceHealth Manager of Public Affairs Jeremy Rush told The Bellingham Herald in an email. Those machines were purchased specifically for COVID-19 testing in PeaceHealth hospitals, Rush reported. “Our analyzers remain idle, while we continue to send specimens to outside laboratory testing sites, prioritizing labs based on the shortest turnaround times,” Rush wrote. Hey ahosai is St. Joe's busy right now?““It’s incredibly frustrating,” PeaceHealth Chief Operating Officer Richard DeCarlo told the Times. “We had put wheels in motion with testing and protective equipment to allow us to secure and protect our staff and our patients.”
I've been judging how busy the hospital is by the number of medevac helicopters I hear every day. Yesterday it was two, today none. I did see a very strange procession of ambulances, fire trucks and police cars heading to St. Joe yesterday. There were at least 20 in total, all with flashing lights but no sirens and they didn't seem to be in a rush. As they were passing by a helicopter (non-medevac and non-LE) was hovering about 500' overhead.