Posted on 11/16/2020 6:05:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A traveling nurse on assignment in Texas described “horrific” conditions for patients with COVID-19 as hospitals reach max capacity amid a dramatic surge in local cases.
Among the most shocking claims made by registered nurse Lawanna Rivers about her time working at the University Medical Center in El Paso is the existence of a room she calls “The Pit,” where the worst COVID-positive patients were sent to die with minimal treatment and limited efforts at resuscitation.
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I smell BS.
I’ll bet there were cages too.
Not
funny .. I keep reading this crap.. but then I ask friends of mine who are doctors and they say that though “positive” tests are up, there is no surge at the IC units, no capacity issues etc.
What is the average age of the patients in “the pit”? Is that what we should start calling nursing homes?
Yep
But you’d believe it in 2 seconds if it was from a place that you don’t like.
…AND Morton Downey Jr. was jumped by NEO Nazi’s.
If true, ya think maybe being on the border next to Juarez would have something tp do with lots of cases?
Does it have a pendulum?
My previous post...make sure you go down to see the ages of those who died.
El Paso is a democrat/Catholic/Mexican third world hell-hole. It’s where Paddy O’Rourke got his start. Around 10% Anglo.
Hospitals are no place for sick people to be.
cases-of-covid-19-reported-in-north-dakota-new-single-day-high/
Only 1100 died in the entire country yesterday.
Some nursing homes are a “pit.”
ICU here is at capacity, and has been for weeks (E. Tenn) more COVID hospitalizations, but ICU placements steady
It is a function of location. Since you are from Texas you can read a Texas site that has verified Doctors discussing all aspects of COVID
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3156505/1
For example, Marcus is a hospital Doc in the Birmingham area (i think Alabama) and they are swamped.
Dr Coates , a practioner in the Texas area, has seen over 300 patients and has been able to keep them all out of the hospital.
A Parkland infectious Disease doc says this:
“The hospital COVID census is >100 right now
It’s bad”
this is an interesting blurb from a North Texas rural Dr
ramblin_ag0211:07a, 11/12/20AG
We’re seeing it here in rural North Texas in a big way. It’s just been scattered cases until November. We’ve shut down schools and have a steady trickly of hospitalized COVID patients. The scariest thing for us is the difficulty to transfer. We can handle basic stuff, but we don’t have an ICU or respiratory therapists. So anyone that gets sicker should be somewhere else. All the regional centers are refusing COVID patients. Some idiot in Austin decided that having >15% COVID on a hospital census means they have to shut down elective procedures. So all the big hospitals are holding that line to keep revenue coming in. I can’t blame them, but that leaves small rural hospitals and patients in the lurch when someone really needs an ICU
Today is my last day of quarantine. COVID-BATFlu was the mildest head-cold flu I have ever had. My theory is that this needs to be either combined with comorbidites or the actual flu in order for it to be serious.
But since the flu didn't exist last year according to Dr Birx I guess this theory is shot - sarc
Yes, Marcus is in Alabama
Marcus AureliusIn reply to AustinAg2K • 7:50p, 11/15/20AG
Birmingham AL metro. My experience no different from many pulm/CC doc friends I know across the south.
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