Oregon COVID Patient Dies After Hospital Runs Out of ICU Beds

Newsweek ^ | 20 August 2021 | James Crump

[blueplum]

If you're in the Roseburg area, you might want to have a Plan B if you need a hospital

[Skywise]

I think it’s safe to presume he was vaccinated.

[AndyTheBear]

Must mean the Healthcare system needs even more government red tape and perverse incentives to fix it. Three billionth times the charm....

[4Liberty]

[Sacajaweau]

These numbers are for a whole state. Doesn’t make sense.

[Blennos]

One really cannot depend upon the medical system these days. It has become hopelessly corrupt. Find yourself a supply of ivermectin, vit D, Vit C, zinc etc. Since most doctors won’t treat this virus at all until you’re on the brink of death, prepare yourself.

[ClearCase_guy]

The state only has 41 ICU beds

Well, that seems like general incompetence on the part of the state.

[steve86]

It’s like that over much of the PNW right now. All three hospitals in my town have all ICU beds subscribed. To make it worse no hospital within 500 miles can be found to accept diverted covid patients.

[Artemis Webb]

By comparison there are just over 300 ICU beds in my city of less than 200,000.

[steve86]

The 41 is the number of ICU beds allocated to covid patients, not the total number of ICU beds.

[ClearCase_guy]

So, you’re saying they have planned well for this pandemic?

[Ymani Cricket]

BS. Hospitals are becoming short staffed because people are quitting or getting fired left and right. It is THIS that will create a huge nursing shortage. These people are liars and deceivers. It takes a long time to train an ICU Nurse and the patient to staff ratio by NEEDS must be smaller for ICU.

Once Xiden mandates vaxxes for Nursing home workers the quit rate will be even hire and the whole healthcare system will collapse NOT because of "covid". Newsweak is full of sh!!! There are entire floors being run bare minimum with travel staff. I know. Don't buy this stupid BS.

[Adder]

If he was vaccinated, I am sure his death was less severe.

Seriously tho...RIP. Sorry it ended this way.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

One really cannot depend upon the medical system these days. It has become hopelessly corrupt. Find yourself a supply of ivermectin, vit D, Vit C, zinc etc. Since most doctors won’t treat this virus at all until you’re on the brink of death, prepare yourself.

I thank my lucky stars that MY doctor has told me unequivocally that he WILL treat me early if I catch it. Been a year and a half and I haven't managed to. And NO, I'm not vaccinated.

[suekas]

It’s probably due to the Lambdo variant. The government doesn’t mention because it is From South America.
The MSM also doesn’t want you to know, that this is happening in democratic run states. They want you to think it is just Texas and Florida.

[Ymani Cricket]

quit rate HIGHER (not hire) because there will be no one to hire. Frustrated staff will quit when they are so understaffed they cant do the job. Nursing care is a difficult and very physical and thankless job as it much less while being understaffed.

[nevermorelenore]

Same in my city, short staffed is the issue

[suekas]

The ED is just as capable of running a patient on a ventilator, as the ICU.

[BiglyCommentary]

While waiting probably put on a ventilator. “WE FOUND THE MURDER WEAPON SARGE...”

[ptsal]

What a train wreck!

Are they only using ventilators and hoping for recovery?