Los Angeles ambulance crews told not to transport patients who stand little chance of survival

CNN ^ | January 5, 2021 | Alexandra Meeks

[Secret Agent Man]

these people are morons

they could easily put people on oxygen concentrator units

[kaktuskid]

Aren’t the hospitals always at near capacity during the Winter months? And most deaths occur in Jan-Feb?

[Tennessee Nana]

Move all those illegal aliens out of the hospitals and there’ll be room enough for the American citizens...

[metmom]

If people who were actually sick were the ones who stayed home, then there would be some progress made in combatting every viral illness.

But nooooooo, everyone has their *rights* dontcha know?

They simply do not care what they do to anyone else.

OTOH, being sick is a good enough reason to stay home in the winter and who wants to go out in the cold when you’re sick anyways? Ugh.....

[cherry]

I think all they’re saying is the ER’s can’t accept dead people and hold them in a room for family, etc to visit....

[GreyHoundSailor]

They’ve dumbed down so much of the population, most aren’t even capable of critical thinking.

It’s more important to report people walking the wrong way in a grocery store aisle. That’s considered good citizenship now.

[alexander_busek]

If there are no signs of breathing or a pulse, EMS will continue to perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes, the EMS memo said. If the patient is stabilized after the period of resuscitation, the patient would then be transported to a hospital. If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital.

Sounds fair to me!

Seriously: How does this differ from the previous policy? Were dead patients previously transported to the hospital?! This excerpt seems to imply that!

Regards,

[Fury]

What’s next, just toss them off into the weeds and drive off?

Ghouls.

[SaveFerris]

[Everything is COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID]

That's what I've been saying for some time. Local "news" (ha) is non-stop covid. Except maybe for weather.

I hate to walk by a TV if this propaganda I mean "these shows" are on.

[SaveFerris]

[Everything is COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID]

That's what I've been saying for some time. Local "news" (ha) is non-stop covid. Except maybe for weather.

I hate to walk by a TV if this propaganda I mean "these shows" are on.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Does anyone have a reputable news source for this story?

[MarMema]

https://www.ems1.com/transport/articles/los-angeles-providers-decline-to-transport-certain-patients-due-to-hospital-capacity-BOE3ZJKjzG86TjZc/

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The president goes to the hospital for a scratchy throat.

I am not talking about just this president but ANY president.

The president's medical team is backed up by the secret service. Their health is treated with great care and things you and I would shrug off or go to bed with a hot toddy means a trip to Walter Reed. They over react. That is their job.

[MarMema]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/insurance/las-hospital-nightmare-heres-how-ambulance-service-911-calls-are-impacted-in-a-pandemic/ar-BB1ctubb

[MarMema]

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/los-angeles-issues-brutal-letter-do-not-treat-dying-patients/news-story/d7d1c44e21c7abf636010c605d45a221

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Perhaps the California authorities have figured out what the Chinese already know. A disease that kills the elderly and the weak while leaving the young and skilled working age people relatively unscathed may not be such a bad thing after all. Look at the savings in SS and Medicare alone.

[MarMema]

The difference is the 20 minutes spent in the field trying to resuscitate.

[fluorescence]

Old Californians are disproportionately part of the white minority so the state authorities probably consider them deserving of being gotten rid of, whereas the vast majority of young people there have morally superior skin colors.

[MarMema]

Yes. Last spring, before it got here, this is exactly what Italy had to do - ration care and try to guess who to give a vent to...I read a piece written by a doctor in Italy and how his choices were decided.

Additionally all hospitals have plans for emergency situations.

[MarMema]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/covid-19-in-italy-sports-season-shutdown-re-reviewing-contagion-comedian-mae-martin-more-1.5495224/covid-19-forces-italian-doctors-to-make-life-and-death-choices-about-rationing-care-1.5495232