Posted on 08/20/2021 6:56:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Thursday announced that hospitals in the state are nearing a “critical point” with regard to being able to treat COVID-19 patients.
Beshear urged unvaccinated people in his state to get the shot while he explained that hospitals are facing staffing shortages and reaching capacity, noting that the delta variant of the coronavirus is “burning through our population,” according to The Associated Press.
“Our hospital capacity, really the capacity that we have based on the staffing that we have, is reaching a critical point,” Beshear said during a Thursday news conference. “At this rate, we are going to be out of hospital capacity very, very soon.
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It’s all based on staffing numbers... the nurses and doctors are fed up and are leaving in droves. Stress, exhaustion and not wanting mandatory vaccinations.
Did this sort of crisis happen during peak Covid last Winter? If not, why are things so bad now, in the Summer, especially after all the vaccinations? If so, then why didn’t they learn from their experience, and prepare better? Maybe the vaccine itself, or, more likely, politics, is the problem.
Dominion was used in that election. Never could understand at the time how every other election in the state went to Republicans except the governor’s race. Never could understand that so many republicans could vote for a Dem for governor.
Give your nurses and doctors an ultimatum to take the jab or be fired. That should help to make the hospital staffing shortage WORSE.
Hospitals cannot dictate patient loads. In an emergency, you deal with the increased number of patients even if you have to set up tents on the hospital lawn.
it would be nice if they actually treated the patients with the life saving drugs available.
"Gee, if only we had some kind of warning, we could have planned for surges in capacity. But, given that Covid is a brand new phenomenon that just popped up a few days ago, we had no idea we could be hit with this virus."
Gee whiz, man, haven't you heard? ORANGE MAN BAD.
...the capacity that we have based on the staffing that we have...So are the hospitals overwhelmed with patients or are they understaffed?
If they need workers, perhaps they shouldn't be so insistent that their personnel receive the experimental vaccine.
Hire Texas nurses ....
Hospitalizations and deaths are already above the winter peak in several southern states
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Bevin may have been the worst candidate this state has ever seen.
He made Gatewood Gailbraith look like JFK.
“The staffing we have...”
Are they understaffed because the government is paying workers to stay home?
In areas with higher vaccinations the increase has not been nearly as dramatic
Let’s end extended unemployment benefits and then see if staffing shortages are still an issue.
Mandatory jab requirements (or planned future requirements) are scaring away the medical professionals and reducing staff levels.
If they can make it work they can retire early, take some time off and wait for the fever about the fever to subside, or temporarily or permanently work elsewhere (including labs).
“Hospitalizations and deaths are already above the winter peak in several southern states”
In states like Oregon, too. But that begs the question.
You would have to have paid very little attention to how that race went not to know that. Bevin's constant foot-in-mouth disease was self-sabotage. The final nail in the coffin was him coming up for tolls in northern Kentucky in the closing days of the election, causing outrage, and those normally deep red counties were colored light blue instead - well more than enough to make up the margin alone.
Oregon has increased but only to approx 30% of the winter peak and not increasing nearly as dramatically as states like FL. Several states are close to 100% and still growing exponentially
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