Victim of a mass shooting? Too bad, the hospitals are filled with COVID patients.
No emergency treatment for you!!!!
Hospitals near a grocery store shooting in Collierville, Tenn., were already struggling to keep up with Covid-19 patients when those injured in the attack arrived in emergency rooms on Thursday.
National Guard troops had been stationed at medical centers to help cope with the influx of Covid-19 patients, and emergency medical providers had recently issued a dire warning to local officials about the strain on hospitals.
“Currently our system emergency departments are operating dangerously over capacity,” the medical providers wrote on Aug. 16. They added, “We may be unable to provide timely care to everyone and will have to make choices about delivering care to patients based on their probability of survival.”
They expressed particular concern about what could happen in the event of a disaster, given that “the city has no surge capacity to accommodate any additional disaster or unplanned events.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/23/us/shooting-collierville-kroger-tennessee#shooting-collierville-kroger-tennessee
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I just posted about the shooting.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215888091