Only 25 ICU beds available in Arkansas as COVID cases surge

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/no-icu-beds-available-arkansas-health-officials-say/91-5691621a-b46d-46ab-9461-a0e9b3e3c5ba

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Secretary of Health Dr. Jose Romero said there is no space in any state hospitals for inpatient care (ICU beds.)

In a meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 4, Dr. Romero asked the steering committee to direct money from the American Rescue Plan to get more hospital staff and beds for COVID-19 patients.

A hospital bed would cost $4,000 each.

Dr. Rawle Seupaul, the UAMS Chief Medical Officer said the hospital can't give adequate care to patients as the delta variant is causing mostly unvaccinated Arkansans to receive inpatient care.

On Edit: more at link.

Why don't hospitals impose a vax requirement tor covid care? Dead serious here!

How dare these idiots present to hospitals for scientific care after refusing vax & masking?

What about people who are injured in car or home accidents, have heart attacks or strokes, etc?

I'm furious about ghis coddling of these shitbags!

[LiberalArkie]

1. 1 school bus accident will mean med flights to all over the state.

I hope we have enough helicopters.

[roamer65]

2. Gymnasiums with cots.

Send the willfully unvaccinated to them.

Palliative care only.

[SheltieLover]

7. Tents

Fuck 'em.

[roamer65]

8. Only problem is the summer heat.

That’s why I would say gyms, unused warehouses and unused old large stores right now.

Perfect use for an old Kmart or Pamida.

[SheltieLover]

9. I'd go for unused stores, etc, but not gyms in schools

Since the qpukes insist on cramming kids into petri dish classrioms without even masks.

(I'm sure you didn't mean gyms in schools. Just clarifying.)

I am dead serious. Why aren't hospitals doing this? How dare they endanger everyone's health by catering to covidiots?!?

[roamer65]

10. Gyms in schools...

If the school building is COMPLETELY empty.

I think of those because we have quite a few of them in MI, especially old elementary and middle schools in rural areas.

Any unoccupied larger building will do for palliative care.

Problem is if we send them home, they may infect their children.

[Meowmee]

3. Good luck to them

I hope everyone can get the care they need.

[NickB79]

4. Time to triage

Non-vaccinated go to the back of the line.

[roamer65]

5. +1000

[roamer65]

6. Don't send any of them to Michigan.

We dont want willfully unvaccinated covidiots here. We have enough of them already.

[greenjar_01]

11. The people of Arkansas have voted for this consistently for 25 years, by huge majorities

They continued voting the same way after they had sufficient information on COVID to vote differently, and they will indeed continue on this path in the next elections. They have to live with their collective decisions now.

[SheltieLover]

12. Agree

However, catering to their ignorance endangers sane people, not only in that state, but wherever patients might be shipped off to.

Memphis has several hospitals & wonderful Democratic leadership. Surrounding counties have none of this.

Guess where patients from surrounding counties go for medical care, including those in northern MS.

[greenjar_01]

14. No doubt their phony ideology of self-reliance is conditioned on massive free-riding

Not much can be done about that, unfortunately.

[SheltieLover]

17. But seriously

Can hospitals not refuse admission or put willful anti vaxers in palliative care in unused buildings while leaving beds free for kids, heart attacks, strokes, accident victims etc?

Do you know?

[greenjar_01]

19. I'm not sure you want to follow through on a triage policy that lists high risk behavior as

a legitimate reason for denying care. I usually don't make slippery slope objections (it's juvenile in most cases), but it certainly would open the door to health policies you'd definitely not like, especially in places like Arkansas.

[roamer65]

13. I hope that the doctors take away ventilators from willfully unvaccinated adults to use for children

Children first.

[SheltieLover]

15. Absofuckingloutely!

With more than 700 quarantined in one district, 2 weeks & 2 days into the schoolyear, that's my biggest fear!

This is making me crazy!

[roamer65]

16. Perfect way of handling them...from Thailand.

A converted airport cargo building in Bangkok.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/04/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

Hang in there, Sheltie.

[SheltieLover]

18. Can hispitals not do that here?

Really fed up with catering to these jerks!

[roamer65]

20. FEMA and other governmental emergency management agencies can do it.

I remember Javits Center in NYC was setup early on as a field hospital.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/opinions/javits-centers-covid-19-hospital-iscol/index.html