A pandemic of the unvaccinated - Austin has just six intensive-care unit beds left

[left-of-center2012]

'The situation is critical,' Austin's public health medical director Desmar Walkes said, warning of a 'catastrophe' as it sent the notification to residents at noon through text messages, emails and phone calls. With ICU beds down to a single digit, Austin sounded the alarm Saturday, using its emergency alert system to let residents in the Texas capital city know that the local state of the pandemic is “dire."

“The situation is critical," Public Health Medical Director Desmar Walkes said in a statement Saturday, warning of a “catastrophe" as it sent the notification to residents at noon through text messages, emails and phone calls. “Our hospitals are severely stressed and there is little we can do to alleviate their burden with the surging cases."

The warning came just two days after the city’s health department pushed residents to get vaccinated, stay home and mask up even if they have had their shots.
Hospital admissions increased more than 600% in the past month, while patients in intensive-care units jumped 570%.

“It clearly has taken a very bad turn," Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, said.
“This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/this-us-city-with-2-4-million-population-has-just-6-icu-beds-left-11628422416856.html

[NCjack]

1. Texans have a huge capacity for accepting Abbott's mistakes. I guess there is no bottom

to his insanity.

[uponit7771]

3. or ... or there's too much voter denial and suppression going on in that state. IMHO that's why

... the GQP walks around with big brass minerals cause they know their voter suppression efforts work.

They can do and say the stupidest shit

[MoonRiver]

12. Yes. Remember Tom DeLay, architect of Texas' gerrymandering plot.

[dalton99a]

2. Vacancies are going fast! Get there pronto if you are in a car wreck or accident

[Demobrat]

6. Or you have a heart attack or a stroke or appendicitis

or or or. No hospital bed for you, some unvaccinated Trump humper got there first.

That’s what makes me angriest out of all this. We will all end up paying for their ignorance and arrogance, one way or another.

While they go blithely on, spewing their bile.

[roamer65]

4. Save them for the children.

Children first.

Start kicking willfully unvaxxed adults out of them when needed by a child.

[Demobrat]

7. Or a heart attack victim

or colon cancer patient who could not have prevented what they got with a free shot.

[roamer65]

10. +1000

[jpak]

5. More hoaxy scare mongering and woke cancel culture (and CRT)

Yup

[left-of-center2012]

8. You think the story is a hoax ?

"A pandemic of the unvaccinated - Austin has just six intensive-care unit beds left"

[jpak]

9. Can you see the sarcasm thingy?

[left-of-center2012]

11. Oh

You thought it was sarcasm?

Okie dokie smokey

[jpak]

13. Well yes I did

Sarcasm is lost on the etc....