The hospital where my wife is employed has suspended elective surgeries due to the hospital being full with Covid cases. This happened during the original outbreak also.
This is the one thing that I dislike the most about the Pandemic / Covid / Not Vaccinated is because it actually threatens the health and safety of other patients at the same hospital that is not there for any reasons related to Covid.
A good friend of my mom walked into Emergency care hospital in Chicago for shortness of breath and chest pains...they thought he was having a heart attack but had to wait 4 hours because short of doctors / nurses / equipment and available beds due to Covid patients.
They ended up putting him in a hallway in a wheelchair before getting the necessary tests that determine he in fact was having a heart attack. They ended up having to perform heart surgery at night around 9pm (his condition had worsened very fast) even though he had check-in at 5pm est.
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That's why I wrote before that if they have to choose who to let live and who to let die, they should first help vaccinated people. Vaccinated people can become the deadly victim of non vaxxers.
@Baron was in shock from that and said this would never happen. But it happens all the time. Innocent people die because of the asocial and egoistic behavior of non vaxxers.
Baron is sitting in front of his PC, I have still contact with people in the hospital I worked in. Who will know best what happens?
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/15/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html
US could soon hit more than 200,000 new coronavirus cases per day, NIH director warns
Then as now, the alarming uptick has stretched health resources thin as many hospitals struggle to meet the demand of those who need crucial medical care.
"The system is breaking," CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner told CNN's Jim Acosta on Saturday.
"It's not just the beds. Many hospitals can find beds in places like parking structures or cafeterias. But it's qualified people to staff those beds. And the United States is critically short on ICU nurses, so finding the qualified staff to take care of critically ill patients becomes increasingly hard," said Reiner, a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University.
It hasn't been all that bad...financially...for some nurses.