They’ve already been caught airing footage from inside an Italian hospital and claiming its from New York.
I heard that was happening in Italy but we are nowhere near peak here.
Ask her for facts; what state, city or even hospital. They usually fold when asked to back up their talking points...
Tell her Cuomo ordered it.
Ask the person to prove it. It’s not your job to prove them wrong, it’s their job to to prove they are right.
Your reply: STFU stupid.
Local hospital in rural WA reports sending MOST victims home. Reporting is too childish to determine treatment. Notably residents of other counties come to the hospital in our county and get counted here, instead of their county of residence. A LOT of >65 patients sent home for treatment.
Fake news to inflame the public, lead to rage and fear
They used to just tell old folks that Republicans were going to cut social security
Now they will be telling old people Republicans ( Trump) wants them to die
SEDITION by mass media
The infection rate in the U.S.outside of New York is still not that bad (in a clinical sense).
Ask for a source. That’s probably all it’ll take to back’em down.
A hospital is not going to send anyone home in respiratory distress. They would be open to huge law suits. Mild or no symptoms, yes, but with instructions that if symptoms turn to the worse, they are to immediately return to the hospital.
A lie is not a lie because it is necessarily untrue. It is a lie because of the implication—that what a person wants the hearer to believe of the lie.
I am a hospice patient and we ARE receiving patients at home on hospice who are covid-19 positive. However, these are people who are already terminally ill. People make the decision every day to not pursue aggressive treatment and to go home on hospice.
Pneumonia is a common reason people elect hospice who have life-limiting illnesses. The implication is that people are coming home with Covid-19 to save hospital resources for people who have a better chance. I do not believe the implication is true. People are being sent home because they are dying and hospice care at home is one of the most compassionate ways for a person to spend their last days.
That is supposedly going on in Italy. Not here
At the primary care clinic where I work we are telling people who call in with fever and respiratory symptoms to self-quarantine AT HOME unless they have breathing difficulties. Then they are advised to go to the local ER.
This is not just Covid-19 cases. I am an independent contractor medical transcriptionist. I edit/transcribe dictations for two level-1 trauma center hospitals, one in Suffolk County, NY and one in Boston, MA. I can tell you doctors are having to cut corners on patient care the non-Covid cases.
As of last week they stopped doing elective surgeries and so now my work volume has been cut down three quarters of what it used to be. The hospitals are empty because they are waiting for this huge wave of Covid-19 patients. What is scary is that this compromises care for patients with other medical problems. Doctors are doing visits over the phone instead of having the patient come in for an exam. How many things will be missed and cause the patient more problems down the line?
The hospitals are now operating under restrictions. Surgeons have to have permission to perform surgeries. The hospitals are doing this because they have to preserve supplies such as gloves and masks for the medical personnel treating the infectious Covid-19 patients.
I transcribed a dictation for a patient last night that had an aneurysm. This patient was elderly and had multiple comorbidities. There were three surgeons, cardiothoracic and vascular on the case. They wanted to repair the problem in a staged approach which would require 2 trips to the OR. They were told they had to use the riskier approach and do it in 1 trip to the OR. The patient became coagulopathic during the procedure meaning he was bleeding and they couldn’t get his blood to clot. They had to give him massive amounts of clotting products and pack the chest without closing and go back in the next day to close the chest, so the patient wound up having to make 2 trips to the OR anyway.
I did a dictation today of an man in his 70s who had had a hip replacement and the implants were causing an infection. The surgeon went in today and cleaned out the infection and implanted antibiotic beads. The surgeon stated that the patient needed to have the implants taken out, but because of the Covid-19 situation, the patient would be discharged home and have to be scheduled for the procedure at a later time and to follow up with his orthopedist via televisit.
Just ask, “Is that true, or did you hear it on CNN?”
I heard on my local Philly Radio today that the state of N.J. is planning to ration care and provide only “Palliative care” to the elderly patients.
The NYPost reported that NY does have a triage law that targets old people. Doubt they are there yet.