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Man Shot 6 Times Waits 1 Week For Surgery at Hospital Overwhelmed by COVID
Newsweek.com ^ | August 14, 2021 | Darragh Roche

Posted on 08/14/2021 6:45:43 AM PDT by Kaslin

A Texas man who was shot six times is still waiting for surgery in a Houston hospital about a week after the shooting as the facility struggles due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Joel Valdez is waiting for surgery at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas and spoke to Fox 26 about the situation, advising people to do their best to keep healthy and not end up in the hospital right now.

Ben Taub Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is operating at 98 percent capacity, according to a spokesperson for the Harris Health System, while 33 percent of those patients have conditions related to COVID-19.

Valdez, who is a local business owner and father, spoke to Houston's Fox 26 from his hospital bed on Friday.

He was shot by a stranger last Saturday morning while leaving a Kroger on the 9100 block of the city's W. Sam Houston Parkway.

Police have arrested a suspect and charged him with shooting Valdez earlier this week.

"Having broken bones and bullets in me for over a week now, it's a little frustrating," Valdez said.

"I got shot in the neck right here, but I got hit three times in my left shoulder. That's what is broken and what I'm awaiting surgery for," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: Kaslin

Not sure if I’m buying this... 🤔


41 posted on 08/14/2021 7:25:15 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Kaslin

I don’t believe one word of this crap.


42 posted on 08/14/2021 7:25:33 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (MAGA, and build that wall, and buy Greenland now.)
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To: Kaslin

Due to the selfish ultra right wingers refusing to take the experimental government approved treatment..
Every Hospital across America is forced to only treat people who have been shot 7 or more times or more.
Unless you want an abortion than go to the front of the line


43 posted on 08/14/2021 7:27:43 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: HYPOCRACY
"Who shoots a guy 6x in a Kroger parking lot for no reason?"

What color is the perp? That will answer your question.

44 posted on 08/14/2021 7:30:40 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: ealgeone

Staffing!


45 posted on 08/14/2021 7:32:17 AM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Kaslin

I’m smelling BS here.


46 posted on 08/14/2021 7:33:06 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Pardon me but has anyone inquired as to Joel Valdez immigration status? Is he a Dreamer, a dream crusher or a straight up invader?


47 posted on 08/14/2021 7:33:37 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Kaslin
Ben Taub is part of the Texas Medical Center:

48 posted on 08/14/2021 7:33:54 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: The Pack Knight

If I remember correctly, Ben Taub is the “charity” hospital. FWIW.


49 posted on 08/14/2021 7:35:27 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Kaslin

Given the lower mortality rate of the variant, are all of these hospitalizations necessary? Are hospitals being incentivized to inflate the number of hospitalizations?


50 posted on 08/14/2021 7:35:28 AM PDT by Spok (Those who can compel you to believe absurdities can compel you to commit atrocities.)
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To: dynoman

Nice find, great point.


51 posted on 08/14/2021 7:40:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ealgeone

Well I’m sure it’d be nice to not have to use the 33 percent on covid patients. So easily preventable. People think they know it all. Lol.


52 posted on 08/14/2021 7:47:05 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: Kaslin

Are there any local freepers who can confirm this story?

It’s another one of those stories that seems just to well
timed, it just fits so perfectly into the narratives
preferred by the marxist biden administration and their
many spokesjournalists in the media, thus it can be said
that this article bears at least some of the hallmarks of
propaganda.


53 posted on 08/14/2021 7:52:22 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: napscoordinator
Question is would the 33% be utilized for flu or other respiratory illnesses if we weren't dealing with covid?
54 posted on 08/14/2021 7:53:03 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Kaslin

after reading the headline, I thought it was just about typical week in Chicago


55 posted on 08/14/2021 7:55:39 AM PDT by thinden
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To: Pikachu_Dad
If there was a medical reason for waiting … like waiting for his vitals to stabilize.

I think they're waiting for him to finish all his media interviews. :o)

56 posted on 08/14/2021 7:56:20 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: dforest

Indeed the media pimping chaos again um still.


57 posted on 08/14/2021 7:57:17 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ealgeone

Hard to say. We have to deal in the current reality. It’s nice to fantasize what if’s but we really don’t have that luxury at this time.


58 posted on 08/14/2021 7:57:36 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: SuzyQue

It is a county government hospital, one of several facilities operated by the Harris County Hospital District (aka, “HarrisHealth”). Low-income residents not eligible for Medicaid (including illegal aliens) can get a “gold card” entitling them to essentially free care at the county facilities. They have another full-service hospital in northeast Houston, LBJ.

It certainly isn’t the only nonprofit hospital nearby, though. The Texas Medical Center is a massive collection of hospitals, the largest in the world. Several large, nonprofit, full service hospitals are literally within walking distance: Memorial Hermann, Methodist, and Baylor-St.Luke’s.

To be fair, TMC’s regular, “Phase I,” “non-pandemic configuration” ICU beds are at 100% capacity, but they have expanded those. They have postponed non-urgent surgeries, and I think that’s the point: This guy may have been shot server also times, but he is not awaiting emergency surgery. It is also unclear why he is an inpatient waiting in bed for non-emergency shoulder surgery. But, while Ben Taub is a perfectly good hospital by county hospital
standards, you get what you pay for, and that sometimes includes waiting for non-urgent surgery even in non-pandemic times.


59 posted on 08/14/2021 8:01:12 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Kaslin

FReepers wishing to read the original article with out a trip to msnland, and all that implies, can find it here:

https://www.newsweek.com/man-shot-6-times-waits-1-week-surgery-hospital-overwhelmed-covid-1619398


60 posted on 08/14/2021 8:05:10 AM PDT by upchuck (CAUTION: A new variant will be released every time people stop being afraid. ~ h/t pookie's cartoons)
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