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01-05-2022, 06:31 PM | #57826 | |
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01-05-2022, 06:32 PM | #57827 |
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I don't understand how things have been status quo for hospitals for two ****ing years now with no fundamental changes in how they accept and deny patients and deal with capacity.
And I'm not saying it's as easy as denying unvaccinated Covid patients or there is a simple solution.... but good god, it's been two years. (well, almost)... and we keep doing the same shit like nothing is wrong. |
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01-05-2022, 07:02 PM | #57828 | |
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I am not sure that you and or others understand what is required to accept more and more Covid positive patients. What the liability is for turning away any patient. Last edited by Chief Roundup; 01-05-2022 at 07:07 PM.. Reason: for got a key word |
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01-05-2022, 07:18 PM | #57829 | |
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And there are already countless stories about patients being turned away or sitting in waiting rooms or in beds in hallways for hours on end.... again, not saying there is a single simple solution, but would expect something to be happening by now (and maybe there is and I just haven't seen it or we aren't privy to it). |
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01-05-2022, 07:29 PM | #57830 | |
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01-05-2022, 08:15 PM | #57831 |
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I've been hospitalized for two months. The first hospital I was only in for a half a day. I ended up in the second hospital, as i was told by staff from the first on my way out of the first, because it was the only available bed they could find in the entire KC metro at a facility with the staff and equipment I needed as a stroke. Because according to them (no way for me to verify) the area had been swamped with covid patients from south Dakota. But in my mind, I nearly died of my stroke, and had it happened because of that, I would have been literally killed by covid without ever even contracting it
I am in a rehab facility now for more intense therapy, there has been a small so far recent outbreak here, and now this place is back on strict protocols for everyone, staff, patient or visitor. I am very good friends with a nurse from the second hospital now, and things are getting pretty rough for her there. Just some personal anecdotes.... |
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01-05-2022, 08:19 PM | #57832 | |
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01-05-2022, 08:24 PM | #57833 | |
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01-05-2022, 08:27 PM | #57834 | |
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Typically when things are at a 'something's got to give' level of crap, something gives... and in corporate America, if that thing is expensive enough, it gets a lot of attention. And it's just very disheartening to read the same news over and over as 'something gave' almost two years ago. |
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01-05-2022, 08:44 PM | #57835 | |
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That also means that we have less capacity for all of the medical needs prior to Covid. It means that some cancer patients have to recuperate from home instead of getting the care that they really need. |
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01-05-2022, 08:55 PM | #57836 | |
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It's insane. |
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01-05-2022, 09:02 PM | #57837 |
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To those who asked Everything is going great for me so far. I have recovered very quickly according to pretty much everyone I work with. I have a follow up appointment with neurology later this week but I don't expect anything negative with that.
I feel bad sometimes, there are patients in here, some younger, who had their brain injuries after mine who can't get around much at all, much less as well as I do. I'm actuallycompletely unassisted now, free roam everywhere without a wheelchair or a walker or a cane or anything. Basically just need to work on strength and endurance. |
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01-05-2022, 10:35 PM | #57838 | |
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Whatever this was, it hit quick, but not nearly as bad as Delta. It also didn't last very long. I had a pretty scratchy throat and that irritating cough that goes with it. No fever or chills though, and very little stuff happened in my lungs. My O2 levels were never below 95. As for my wife, this time around, she got sick as well. This stuff hit her harder than it did me. She had some minor breathing difficulty and lost her sense of smell for three days. She also tested negative for Covid on a nasal PCR test. I don't really care too much what this actually was either, other than to satisfy my own curiosity. I have elderly parents, so I had to avoid them over Christmas. Whether it was the flu or Covid, I used my best judgement to stay away. Hope you get well soon! |
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01-05-2022, 10:55 PM | #57839 |
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Honestly, it's been pretty shocking how healthy my family has been. We send our 3 kids to schools daily. They all play sports against kids from all over and have practices several nights per week. I'm out and about daily and teach 120 or so University kids. NONE of us has been sick in the past year plus.
To provide context, I had covid a year ago September (most likely caught it from a student). None of my family members have had it, though. Since then, I've got 2 Pfizers plus a booster, as has my wife. All of our kids have 2 Pfizers. We also get flu shots yearly. We're typically healthy, but this has seemed odd with seemingly everyone else falling like flies. |
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01-06-2022, 07:33 AM | #57840 |
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just a bunch of rando COVID articles, i think it is time for them to abandon total case counts and just focus on COVID hospitalization numbers, this wave seems to be cause staff shortages due to sickness than hospitalization issues overwhelming hospitals in a different way.
Why COVID-19 hospitalizations of Canadian kids — and infants — could keep rising as Omicron spreads https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/med...sLZ?li=AAggNb9 Ontario hospitals urge pregnant people to get vaccine, cite infant COVID admissions https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/...zum?li=AAggFp5 Omicron and living with COVID: Why the new variant might change the timeline https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/med...h2B?li=AAggNb9 Omicron could boost waning immunity, shown in blood: Gov't COVID-19 advisers. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...la2?li=AAggNb9 |
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