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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHospital filled with Covid-19 patients was forced to turn away emergency cancer patient
Dr. Nitesh Paryani, a third-generation radiation oncologist in Tampa, Florida, recently was forced to make a decision that he says he and his family have never had to make in 60 years of treating patients. A nearby hospital was working to transfer a cancer patient to a location that had adequate treatment options. Paryani said he regularly accepts such patients, but for the first time, could not do so due to the number of those sick from Covid-19. "We just didn't have a bed. There was simply no room in the hospital to treat the patient," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo in an interview Wednesday.
The latest Covid-19 surge, due largely to the more transmissible Delta variant, is pushing emergency rooms to the brink. Some states are reporting an overflow of ICU patients as well as staff shortages due to burnout and illness.
"We're seeing in the hospitals,
greater than 90 percent of the people that are admitted in the ICUs are unvaccinated. There is no question that the vaccine is the best option we have. It is also the cheapest option we have. It is the most effective, and there's really no reason that people should be avoiding the vaccine," he said.
"There's not a single patient that we've had to intubate because of a complication from the vaccine.
The people we're intubating, the people that are on life support,
the people that are dying are the ones that are not vaccinated."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/us/covid-florida-doctor-cancer-patient/index.html
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)NCDem47
(2,248 posts)Sorry unvaxers. If there's room we'll get to ya. Your lack of care does not constitute an emergency on my part. Too harsh? Not showing enough compassion?
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Tent hospitals,staff it with unvaxxed health professionals and set it aside for non vaxxed covid cases.
Let the unvaxxed sleep on cots and deal with outside temps.
Leave the actual hospital for vaxxed people with health issues.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 26, 2021, 03:57 PM - Edit history (2)
Mass graves are, of course more planet friendly.
So, from palliative care quarantine hospitals to the mass grave.