Posted on 12/13/2021 11:48:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
innesota hospital leaders are warning in a full-page newspaper ad that they are “overwhelmed” amid a COVID-19 surge and are urging the public to take action.
“Our emergency departments are overfilled, and we have patients in every bed in our hospitals,” write the leaders of nine hospital systems in the state, including the Mayo Clinic and North Memorial Health.
The hospitals warn that because their capacity is strained, care for non-coronavirus medical events, like heart attacks, is also threatened.
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Well, then, i guess they should start firing all the unjabbed workers. That should help, right?
Is that true? Any freepers in Minnesota to verify that?
Does anyone believe this nonsense anymore? A friend had a first hand experience with an ‘overwhelmed’ hospital in Oregon about a year ago. Had covid, got a splitting headache & called an ambulance. She has a precursor to an aneurysm (hard to explain - she didn’t have one, but her doc said it could happen anytime & didn’t offer any treatment for it), & as she walked herself back out of the hospital, she passed empty room after empty room. One lone guy was standing guard by a door.
All in a hospital that was supposedly overwhelmed.
So stop firing doctors and nurses and stop clot shotting people.
Hospitals in the blue part of Ohio are getting hit pretty hard.
Hospital capacity is calculated on whether there is the necessary staff to care for each patient, not on the actual physical beds in the facility.
There is a good chance this is a realistic assessment. For instance, the Mayo Clinic let go 1,000 health care workers because they declined the vaccination. Hence, now there is a “bed shortage” because there isn’t enough staff.
All unvaxxed I’m sure…
Around here it is lack of staff that is keeping people from being admitted.
True.
Even back in late October, there was no guarantee that I would be able to get much needed back surgery. Rooms were tight and I was told that my surgery could be canceled as late as the same day of surgery with no warning.
Liars.
In with, not for.
SNORT.
Are they having heart attacks from getting the shot?
In parts of central mass it made the news with several hospitals fired hundreds of employees, and now they are whining about having reduce the bed capacity. Maybe, just maybe several hundred more employees including nurses, support staff, etc. You would have more beds available. Who would’ve guessed.
But do they have time to do TickTock dances while being overwhelmed, that is the question
There is a good chance this is a realistic assessment. For instance, the Mayo Clinic let go 1,000 health care workers because they declined the vaccination. Hence, now there is a “bed shortage” because there isn’t enough staff.
Meanwhile...
https://www.keyc.com/2021/11/09/hospital-sued-by-employees-fired-refusing-vaccine/
Bet it’s a staffing issue, not an available beds issue.
Thank you! I was too quick in my proofreading!
In the UK they built a purpose outdoor facility to handle the ‘overwhelmed system’. It never saw a patient and was quietly deconstructed.
In another UK incident, a member of the public recorded video of herself going into a hospital to document the ‘overwhelmed NHS’ only to find it almost empty. After publishing the video she was arrested.
So no, until I hear from people I KNOW that tell me about how they couldn’t get into a hospital due to COVID then I won’t believe such stories.
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