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Why are COVID Cases Spiking? Again…
American Thinker.com ^ | Brian C. Joondeph, MD

Posted on 11/15/2021 2:29:05 AM PST by Kaslin

Watching the news, one sees constant stories about COVID numbers rising, yet again, now almost two years into this pandemic, with COVID hospitalizations in some states higher than they have ever been except for the spike last December. In my state of Colorado, the test positivity rate is almost 10 percent, with 1 in 48 infected and if the current trend continues, this will be the worst COVID spike the state has seen.

On the surface, that doesn’t make sense, since nearly 80 percent of eligible Coloradans have received at least one vaccine dose, suggesting the vaccines are not working as well as they should or as advertised, or that vaccine immunity is waning, hence the push for booster injections.

Scarier still is that Colorado officials reinstated “crisis standards of care” for hospital staffing, allowing hospitals and other facilities to stretch limited personnel and use volunteers, including National Guard and family members, to help care for hospitalized patients. Colorado hospitals are already turning away patients based on an executive order by Gov. Jared Polis.

Neighboring New Mexico is in the same boat, also instituting “crisis standards of care.” Their case counts have climbed 19 percent over the past two weeks.

ICU beds are in desperately short supply, with fewer than 100 beds currently available in Colorado as reported by the Denver Post. Are we headed to a situation where patients will be treated in hallways or sent away from overcrowded hospitals to fend for themselves? COVID made its debut in America in March 2020, now 20 months later, when we should be reaching herd immunity, the situation as dire as it was in the beginning.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: ade; colorado; covid; covid19; vaccines
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1 posted on 11/15/2021 2:29:05 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Never see video of these conditions. You would think it would be everywhere.


2 posted on 11/15/2021 2:46:39 AM PST by FreeperCell
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To: Kaslin
A fake pandemic - the best opportunity for a little pre-view of nationalized health care.

Regards,

3 posted on 11/15/2021 2:46:41 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kaslin

The virus continues to mutate and the “so called” “Vaccines” no longer work.

And it is time to Turn Off TV. What is “seen on TV” is a total lie.


4 posted on 11/15/2021 2:48:39 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Kaslin

Remember Flu season?


5 posted on 11/15/2021 2:52:17 AM PST by McGruff
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To: Kaslin

I don’t believe the news. They just say stuff.


6 posted on 11/15/2021 2:56:41 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: Kaslin

Need more ivermectin.


7 posted on 11/15/2021 2:57:12 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Kaslin

They need to use Ivermectin, HCQ or Quercetin, before hospitalization is needed.

With the usual, Zinc and D-3.

Don’t believe the lies that they don’t work.


8 posted on 11/15/2021 2:57:35 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Kaslin

Because they are not COVID cases. They’re normal flu cases.


9 posted on 11/15/2021 2:58:53 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Kaslin

Firing long term nurses, doctors, and other staff with natural immunity is not helpful..


10 posted on 11/15/2021 3:04:20 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Kaslin
I must add the standard and necessary disclaimer that I am not anti-vaccine, having been personally fully vaccinated. Nor am I offering medical advice, only an analysis of current news of COVID cases spiking.

No... no you don't. You don't have to mea culpa. Leftists aren't reading American Thinker. No one gives a damn if you're vaccinated, and saying that you are doesn't lend any more credibility to your discussion. We need to stop kowtowing to the left and the COVIDians.

11 posted on 11/15/2021 3:08:46 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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Why are COVID Cases Spiking? Again…

Who says they are?

12 posted on 11/15/2021 3:10:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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"There's  nothing wrong with the air!"
 

 
One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...

13 posted on 11/15/2021 3:13:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

How many beds were taken out of use due to staff shortages?


14 posted on 11/15/2021 3:13:53 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


15 posted on 11/15/2021 3:29:56 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: Kaslin

Illegals.


16 posted on 11/15/2021 3:33:02 AM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: rarestia

They think that stating they have been vaccinated shows they are rational clear-thinking persons who are not in the kooky minority. You know, they’re followers who believe there’s safety in numbers.

I’m surprised they’re not advocating eating feces, it’s impossible and irrational to think quadrillions of flies could be wrong.

Hannity states it like this, “I believe in the vaccine, because I believe in science.” That fool has no idea what the science is, especially since it’s still being formulated and they’re manipulating what data they do have on these gene serums and essentially outlawing early treatment with proven prophylactics.


17 posted on 11/15/2021 3:33:36 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I’m starting to believe that’s part of the plan to keep this stuff going. Less staff means less hospital beds and creates a crisis that shouldn’t exist.


18 posted on 11/15/2021 3:44:26 AM PST by whershey
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To: Kaslin

The CCU nurse on the block sez it’s fugly down IN hampton.


19 posted on 11/15/2021 3:53:40 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Kaslin

What percentage of cases are nosocomial?

The answer to that question might give us a clue.


20 posted on 11/15/2021 4:02:08 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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