Posted on 11/04/2021 2:18:15 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
In a year that has been filled with so many mysteries already, I have another very odd one to share with you. Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening. Right now, the number of new COVID cases in the United States each day is less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago. That is really good news, and many believe that this is a sign that the pandemic is fading. Let us hope that is true. With less people catching the virus, you would think that would mean that our emergency rooms should be emptying out, but the opposite is actually happening. All across the country, emergency rooms are absolutely packed, and in many cases we are seeing seriously ill patients being cared for in the hallways because all of the ER rooms are already full.
Let me give you an example of what I am talking about. The following comes from an article entitled “ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid”…
‘Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.
‘Tiffani Dusang, the ER’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she said in a warm Texas twang.
‘But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled.’
Can anyone explain why this is happening?
If the number of COVID cases was starting to spike again, it would make sense for emergency rooms to be overflowing...
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Any demographic info of the patients?
Is this supposed to be the first anecdotal evidence that the vaccinated are starting to suffer from immune deficiencies, and it's showing up in ER overload over emergency cases not previously seen in these quantities?
I don't mind the attempts to explain it as people with historically trended ER cases not going to the hospital post-COVID, or people with historically trended ER cases going to newer private ER facilities. These are rational conclusions that can be tested.
But eventually, the question will turn to whether something is causing people to present with severe cases not typically seen in ERs before.
Just saying...
-PJ
What I’ve seen: this all started happening in mid-summer.
The “backlog” rationale seems like a possibility, but a stretch, since doctors opened up almost-fully a whole year before.
Yes, staffing is worse. But the census numbers went up, even over pre-pandemic years. Summers have always been low census times in hospitals.
Also, the rises I’m seeing are not illegals
Also, the UK has very good data on the excess mortality in 2021, vs 2020.
Ockham’s Razor: it’s the vaxxines.
But enough with Ockham - as much of the nation decides on taking Boosters and following Mandates, where are the Journos to look objectively at this?
ERs are required to treat patients regardless of means to pay, or even proving identity; this shut down ERs here in NJ because the government kept cutting back the “charity care” reimbursements for those who used the ER as their general practitioner.
The medical facilities are still open, but have no ER (thus no obligation to treat); you’ll show up after making an appointment, and they’ll have your payment info before you’re treated.
When have ERs not been over-run? I’ve seen this for twenty five years now; before that they were NOT like this. For many people with no insurance or illegals they are preferred care, also for some lazy people with insurance who don’t want to make appointments or go to urgent care. Every time I’ve been to an ER (transporting grandparents or parents) it was swamped; mostly illegals with kids with the sniffles, or a headache, etc.
I am pretty sure someone has said this already, but we have received quite a few thousand illegal migrants lately.
As everyone knows, emergency rooms can’t turn people away.
They are probably arriving with serious diseases, possibly the reason they made the trek in the first place.
Here’s a stat I’d be interested in seeing...
If there’s been an increase in surge alerts called at ERs nationwide since the vaxx mandate was announced.
I’m a nurse, my theory: man made staffing shortages created by politics, so many people use ER for non- emergencies because they’re selfish idiots (eg: every day I talk to people who went just to get a Covid test) and probably lots of illegals as well. Our healthcare system has been broken for a long time- only relationship to Covid is intentionally self made political crises caused by lying about truth and vaccine mandates creating hospital staffing shortages. Hospitals also create shortages because they try to keep every cent and play/gain system by seeing how low they can go. Hospital does NOT give a fig about your health or safety and non-treatment of Covid patients has exposed this in spades
My wife helps out a neighbor. He is having trouble with a deep wound to his leg due to poor circulation or something. Even the temporary nursing home is having trouble dealing with it.
They are going to send him home.
“Um, we probably won’t be able to have a nurse come by to change his dressings and ointments. But - we can show you how to do it and it should be okay. Probably.”
My wife has taken care of his previous less serious skin wounds with great success, but she’s thinking “Ok - the nurses are already having problems with dealing with it - but they want ME to do it!!??”
I told her that she cares for this old guy more than any nurse would, and she would provide better care, but she is leery.
BTW, I once had a minor injury (they thought it was serious) and spend a couple of hours on a stretcher against the hallway wall in a major trauma center. This was years ago. I was going to drive but they said if they took me in an ambulance I wouldn’t have to wait as long. (It was still a long wait).
It was unbelievable - just like in the movies.
The gal behind me was a junky with a cop by her side. She was moaning and/or yelling the entire time.
“Come on - give me some morphine or something - it hurts!!”
“Now Alice - just like last time, they can’t give you morphine until they know what you have taken - you’ll just have to wait.”
And then there was some announcement about a “Life Flight”. I bet 4 to 6 gurneys with medical folks came running down the hallway shouting stats and all of that. It was crazy.
BTW - I think there might be another factor why people aren’t seeing their doc. They are afraid of getting the Covid at the medical place.
I had to see my doc a month ago. He was busy, but some other guy at the place had an opening the following day. I told him it was probably a “——” due to my past history. He agreed, gave me a prescription, took some samples and called me back a day later saying “our” diagnosis was correct and the prescription should clear things up.
I canceled a procedure because I didn’t want to risk getting CoupFlu from vaxxed staff.
Especially since I live in NYS and can’t find a doc willing to offer early treatment.
I have needed medical care lately for some acute issues. I can’t believe what I’ve seen.
The same Big Med that’s all in on the vaxxes, muzzles and mandates, allows people to cram into elevators, employees to come in sick, has staff with their muzzles under their noses, messing with their muzzles then touching surfaces, patients without cleaning their hands...
Then I go for medical care and am treated like a biohazard by medical staff insisting I wear a muzzle made by a manufacturer that states its not for use in healthcare settings.
During my Air Force years...some base had a statistical review (outsiders) and centered on medical services. At the conclusion, they were a bit shocked that about 50-percent of weekend visits were from sports-related events (from the military guys/gals, dependents, and their kids). But the other thing that came out...roughly half the visits to the ER were not what you’d consider true ER problems (they could wait till the next day). But sending people away...meant criticism, and complaints being lodged.
I would question this whole discussion. Managers of hospitals are probably happy about more customers, and that profits will increase along the way.
If ER visits involve uninsured patients then there won’t be much profit at the end of the day.
Probably several factors combined. But everyone staying home and not doing anything for 2 years, you’ve just destroyed everyone’s immune system.
Nice "Catch 22" ref!
The lack of hospital beds is a purposeful decision via the government Healthcare Finance Comittee back in the 80s that with its infinite wisdom of newly minted but ignorant mbas decided that each hospital bed needed to be a profit center.
Formerly there were abundant hospital beds and most hospitals ran at 70 to 80 percent capacity. The overage was part of the national defense strategy. Like the interstate highways that could turn into air strips. The empty beds were not seen as a problem. However with micromanaging and false goals the hospital capacities were forced to be cut.
Marching towards 3rd world status
My condolences Donna.
They have ‘protocols’ for Covid now which imo are tantamount to death sentences unless fully-vaccinated. But, imo, fully-vaccinated infects a person with many times more spike proteins than the coronavirus, which imo is the initial delivery mechanism for the spike proteins.
At this point I believe it is imperative to have a supply of 12mg Ivermectin tablets for first-response to infections. Then prophylactically thereafter. I’ve used it to reduce my long-Covid symptoms I’ve had since Spring ‘20.
I canceled 2 already postponed medical procedures because on the very small possibility that things go sideways and I need hospitalization there is really no functional hospital care available.
Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America ... and millions of third world people pouring over the southern boarder is just a coincidence?
Hospitals are turning into homeless hotels.
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