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Minnesota hospitals warn they are 'overwhelmed' in full-page ad
The Hill ^ | 12/13/2021 | Peter Sullivan

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ad; bigdoctor; hospitals; minnesota; overwhelmed; petersullivan; thatsashame
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bull


41 posted on 12/13/2021 12:36:12 PM PST by trailboss800
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To: Twotone
All in a hospital that was supposedly overwhelmed.

Doesn't matter that most of the hospital was as empty and silent as a tomb. "Emptiness" does not equate with "overwhelmed."

No, if there had been little to no personnel...

Regards,

42 posted on 12/13/2021 12:36:38 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
soo carefully worded so as NOT to state all the cases are from or even have the coof...


43 posted on 12/13/2021 12:37:46 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Gritty
What!? Haven’t all those Filipina nurses and Pakistani doctors arrived yet to take up the personnel slack and fill those empty staff positions?

Maybe they are too busy, attending to sick folks in their home countries?

(Yeah, I know your question was a rhetorical one!)

Regards,

44 posted on 12/13/2021 12:38:12 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WTH doesn’t the media just start “allowing” folks to get information about D3 etc?? I know, I know!! Cuts out the profit from Big Pharma. Oh well...


45 posted on 12/13/2021 12:41:51 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t come to Florida.

Why? You will die from an alligator attack.

Or rattlesnakes.

Or a hurricane.

Or a ...lolita from Juarez will steal your kidney.

5.56mm


46 posted on 12/13/2021 12:43:44 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Short staffing equals fewer beds available.


47 posted on 12/13/2021 12:44:11 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Minnesota hospitals are run by liars, twits, leftists and fools.

More fear porn, please. More fear porn.


48 posted on 12/13/2021 12:45:39 PM PST by Qui is (Biden spews https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4020201/postsHarris swallows. )
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To: Ron H.

Mayo Clinic fires doctor who wrote book on COVID pandemic ...
https://www.usatoday.com › news › health › 2021/07/02
A doctor at Mayo’s Eau Claire, Wisconsin, clinic was fired after writing a book about patients, politics and policies during the COVID ...
Jul 2, 2021


49 posted on 12/13/2021 12:45:54 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why aren’t they setting up monoclonal antibody infusion centers to keep people out of the hospital? That treatment...nearly 100 percent effective, has been available for a year and is being slow-walked and stonewalled by these very same people.


50 posted on 12/13/2021 12:46:12 PM PST by garandgal
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hospital administrators trying to get more funding, I’m sure.


51 posted on 12/13/2021 12:51:12 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Twotone
"Overwhelmed" could be for any number of reasons.

They want you to think it is because of all those unvaxxed types. Funny how no matter what the problem, the vax or a booster is the answer.

But they could be (and very probably are) "overwhelmed" due to a staffing shortage.

Heck, they could be overwhelmed simply due to supply chain issues - unable to get anything from drugs to their laundry running short of detergent.

I no longer trust the media, the FDA/CDC, or anyone connected with corporate medicine to tell us the unvarnished, un-spun truth.

52 posted on 12/13/2021 12:55:01 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

My state of Florida is actually doing that in a PSA that is undoubtedly making Fauci, Wollensky and Psaki go REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!


53 posted on 12/13/2021 12:58:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you can fire competent, qualified people you aren’t overwhelmed.


54 posted on 12/13/2021 1:00:53 PM PST by nonliberal (Trump 2024. Burn it down.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Simple solution; just permit HCQ and Ivermectin to be OTC and problem solved, Pandemic over......allow peopke to treat themselves just like the regular flu or cold....


55 posted on 12/13/2021 1:04:10 PM PST by chopperk
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To: Twotone

Our overwhelmed hospital was the same. Weird thing was, as I sat alone in the waiting area alone, there was a family of 5 human Beans there. Mom, Dad and three bambinos. Every other person there was alone, there were 8 in total. It seems there are different rules for regular people, but for those who were forced to hurry and cross the border before papers were filled, approved and stamped, they are not even told what the rules are. At least not yet, maybe someday.


56 posted on 12/13/2021 1:07:49 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t believe a word they say. They lied last time about being overflowing.

https://nurse.org/articles/nurses-viral-tiktok-social-media-covid19-videos/


57 posted on 12/13/2021 1:08:43 PM PST by roving
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58 posted on 12/13/2021 1:11:46 PM PST by roving
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To: mewzilla

Two of those MN articles were from Northfield. Back when I was in college that would have been the backup destination I’d had something student health could fix. Happily, like most healthy college kids I hadn’t needed student health either. But in 20:20 hindsight curiosity after I progressed on to medical school it seemed like a nice facility for the town of “cows, colleges and contentment.” Sounds like they’re running low on contentment. Carleton and St. Olaf students and staff made up about half its 20k population. I hope all their big lib academics enjoy their local health care now. But then many probably travel 40 minutes south to Mayo’s and haven’t yet noticed the change. Liberal but sane when I was there. Future Senator Wellstone was a professor then. His big liberal destiny was ruined by a plane crash and the take over of his funeral by insane liberals was their coming out party.


59 posted on 12/13/2021 1:26:00 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo op)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, they have two beds reserved for “with Covid,” and both are occupied. Are they just “flooded”, or “overwhelmed?”


60 posted on 12/13/2021 1:27:29 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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