Here’s the story, which is becoming a new reality in hospital after hospital in various states thanks to the anti-mask/anti-science crowd who put everyone’s lives in jeopardy beyond just getting COVID because of their selfishness.
At the huge Texas Medical Center, where other hospitals send patients, ER patients are waiting in ambulances in the parking lot, in their cars, in lobbies, even at home. And the percentage of available ICU and hospital beds is becoming limited almost everywhere in the U.S. Doctors are spending hours on the phones trying to find a bed for patients in far flung states.
HOUSTON – Emergency room doctors in Southeast Texas say they are running out of hospital beds, and some patients are waiting hours, sometimes days to be admitted into a hospital.
“Are there patients dying because of this that might not have died? Absolutely, yes,” said Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council CEO, Darrell Pile. “I am very concerned about the fatalities that are about to happen.”
As of Friday afternoon, Pile says 482 patients were waiting for hospital beds in his 25-county region. He said 211 of those patients are COVID-19 positive.
An additional 120 patients are waiting for an ICU bed. Of those patients, 65 are COVID-19 positive.
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The science denying GOP death cult imperil non-COVID patients who need urgent attention:
“The poor nurses and doctors and respiratory therapists can’t see all the patients that are mounting in the lobby, and now we have patients waiting in parking lots and we have patients waiting in the back of ambulances in parking lots. It’s a gridlock at the emergency department level,” Pile told KPRC 2.
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“If they happen to get anything else like a urinary tract infection that gets complicated or a kidney stone that needs a procedure, they can’t get a bed. They can’t get treatment,” he said.
Or heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and any number of urgent ER needs.
Saw a quote today from an anonymous U.S. hospital staffer:
“If you don’t trust doctors and science to keep you from getting sick, why the hell are you clogging up hospitals trusting them to cure you?”
Ain’t that the truth? Seems only a slow death on a ventilator will cure some people of their selfish attitude and arrogant stupidity.
The anti-vaccine/anti-mask crowd knowingly put the rest of us in jeopardy for lack of a simple shot and mask. And especially so for anyone who did the right thing who needs immediate ER treatment for other reasons and didn’t deny science out of some idiotic notion of ‘FREEDUMB!”
Betcha a lot of those anti-vaccine/anti-mask adult COVID patients claim to be ‘pro-life’, riiiiight?
BTW, a bed opened up yesterday here in Nashville when right wing radio host, Phil Valentine, who mocked masks and vaccines on air, died of COVID. He changed his mind about vaccines. Too late.
To quote a line from the short documentary below — shot in the Ozarks, but a sadly familiar story everywhere thanks to ‘freedom seekers’ refusing to do something as simple as getting vaccinated — “One person’s ‘freedom’ is another person’s death.”