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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.

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

It’s not just hospitals...

https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2021/12/just-how-bad-is-the-staffing-problem-at-minnesotas-long-term-care-facilities-and-hospitals/


61 posted on 12/13/2021 1:27:52 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Make that: if I’d had something student health couldn’t fix.


62 posted on 12/13/2021 1:28:58 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo op)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Check this out...

https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/mili-misrc-covid19-tracking-project

MN doesn’t look maxed out to me...


63 posted on 12/13/2021 1:31:18 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

More data here, and they don’t make it easy to find...

https://mn.gov/covid19/data/response-prep/response-capacity.jsp


64 posted on 12/13/2021 1:33:09 PM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

They’d have been better off had they fired everyone who’d issued the mandates rather than those who refused them!


65 posted on 12/13/2021 1:50:53 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris press events are called dodo op)
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To: Madam Theophilus

Do you have reference re Mayos. All of them only 1,000?


66 posted on 12/13/2021 1:59:37 PM PST by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because you are UNDERSTAFFED due to stupid Vax mandates!!!!


67 posted on 12/13/2021 2:05:11 PM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: ThunderSleeps

Heck, they could be overwhelmed simply due to supply chain issues - unable to get anything from drugs to their laundry running short of detergent.
.........
It may not be vax mandate etc., hut health care heros who want to treat and save patients with every possible regimen; who are forced to literally do harm with limited treatments allowed/mandated by CEOs and bureaucrat deciders.

It is cruel and ugly in the medical system, with money and power as the primary motivator of Health Care leadership. It must be infuriating to be a doctor nurse or any type of healer to be forced to do harm.


68 posted on 12/13/2021 2:20:34 PM PST by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: amihow
It must be infuriating to be a doctor nurse or any type of healer to be forced to do harm.

Uh, apparently not, if they're willing to do harm in order to collect a paycheck. "Healer" . . . give me an effing break.

69 posted on 12/13/2021 2:29:26 PM PST by DSH
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To: fuzzylogic

Sounds like the Army hospital that was set up in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2020. It got dismantled and shipped out after handling 0 patients at a cost of $21 million.

Another was set up in the tennis center in Queens. That one had 79 patients and cost $19.8 million

https://www.thecity.nyc/health/2020/5/21/21273179/brooklyn-field-hospital-shuts-after-21-million-construction-and-zero-patients


70 posted on 12/13/2021 2:40:38 PM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siati armati!)
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To: gitmo

Exactly the reason I’m hobbling around on a cane now.
I don’t trust ANYONE in the medical industry anymore!!!
At 77, it looks like I’ll have to live out my days as a cripple.


71 posted on 12/13/2021 2:52:50 PM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siati armati!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These F’n lies need to stop. The only problem these hospitals leftist propaganda.

Everything they state is a lie.


72 posted on 12/13/2021 3:05:32 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: brownsfan

Bullshit


73 posted on 12/13/2021 3:06:26 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many workers who aren’t vaccinated did they fire?


74 posted on 12/13/2021 3:09:55 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Hospital leaders,” sadly, have lost credibility. All news items from hospitals will now be checked with others sources for reliability


75 posted on 12/13/2021 3:13:40 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Twotone

There were similar videos of ‘overwhelmed’ hospitals in NYC during the peak of the pandemic in 2020.


76 posted on 12/13/2021 3:14:37 PM PST by Rebelbase ( State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims: Guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide vax experiments?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I believe the phrase “ Let it burn” comes to mind.


77 posted on 12/13/2021 3:15:07 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Trillian

those admitted aren’t being admitted because of reaction to what you call the ‘clot shot’. Doctors and nurses have either died from covid, gone private (contract nursing), or have left the profession on sabattical because they’re burned out on unnecessary deaths and on people treating the ICU like Burger King.. Prior to Oct 1, HEnnipen was at 96% vaccinated, Mayo at 85%, Childrens at 84%, Alina and Health Partners at 83% and Fairview at 80%. The majority of those not vaccinated in hospital settings are the lower level workers - aides, janitors, etc. For instance, over 90% of nursing home residents are vaccinated but only 25% of facilities by the end of September had a vaccination rate of 70% or better for their caregivers, leaving nursing home residents vulnerable on a daily basis to unvaccinated carriers.

Patients are admitted because they are unvaccinated, got infected (or an immunocompromised vaccinated was infected by an unvaccinated) and have plenty of micro and macro clots from covid. The ICU is not next to the ER, so walking into an empty ER is not an indication that the hospital has no patients.

according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, only one ICU patient at North Memorial is a vaccinated patient who is recovering; Alina and Sanford report 92% unvaccinated in their ICUs, St. Joseph at 100% unvaccinated in their ICU.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/unvaccinated-patients-filling-minnesota-intensive-care-units/ar-AARIMgN?ocid=uxbndlbing

according to the MinnPost, in the Minnesota population, in the age group 65+, there are 10 hospital admissions per 100K for breakthrough vaccinated and 165 hospital admissions per 100K for unvaccinated. There are 2.7 deaths per 100K for breakthroughs and 39 deaths per 100K for unvaccinated. Of the breakthrough deaths over 90% had one or more underlying conditions.

The paper reports that the median age of deaths over the past 8 months is 82 for the vaccinated reinfected and age 69 for the unvaccinated, with the unvaccinated median age at admission is age 61 compared to vaccinated elderly at 73. Meaning the unvaccinated are dying 20 years prematurely compared to immunocompromised elderly.

https://www.minnpost.com/health/2021/12/yes-breakthrough-infections-happen-but-vaccination-still-massively-decreases-the-risk-of-hospitalization-and-death-from-covid-19/

Minnesota needs to set up monoclonal centers, fast.


78 posted on 12/13/2021 5:19:17 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

I know quite a few people that used to work at some of those hospitals. They took early retirement because they refused to get the clot shot. I wouldn’t rely on the media links to tell you the truth.


79 posted on 12/13/2021 6:14:42 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Trillian

so, you’re saying I shouldn’t rely on Minn newspapers ‘to tell you the truth’ but you’d encourage others to believe some internet pandemic profiteer? what’s wrong with this picture?


80 posted on 12/13/2021 6:43:08 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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