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From: "Alex Krycek !" <krychecks3d@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hospitals in Oregon buckling under surge of COVID
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 23:54:53 -0000 (UTC)
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> Yak wrote
>
> > Subject: Hospitals in Oregon buckling under surge of COVID patients
> > From: Yak <yak@inbox.com>
> > Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
> >
> > https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/ap_news/washington/hospitals-in-oregon-
> bu
> > ckling-under-surge-of-covid-patients/article_43808f22-b486-5726-b403-
> f739
> > 90270b89.html
> >
> > Damned DeSantis.
> >
> > =====
> >
> > Patients left on beds in hospital hallways, their monitoring machines
> > beeping away as too few doctors and nurses attend to an overload of
> > emergencies. People diagnosed with cancer or heart disease desperately
> > needing treatments, but being turned away.
> >
> > Hospital staffers and public health managers in southern Oregon say it's
> > never been this bad. And it's apt to get worse as the super-contagious
> > delta variant of COVID-19 spreads through a region where fewer than half
> > the residents have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
> >
> > � oThis is the worst condition our hospitals have seen, likely ever. I
> > don� Tt know that anyone could recall a time where we� Tve had this much
> > pressure on our health care system,� Josephine County Public Health
> > Manager Michael Weber told reporters Thursday.
> >
> > The health care leaders got on a Zoom press conference with reporters to
> > describe the dire situation, and to beg people to get vaccinated and
> > wear masks.
> >
> > � oI implore you to wear a mask and get vaccinated, not just for your
> > own protection, not just for your family, but for your neighbors and for
> > the care and support of your medical teams,� said Leona O� TKeefe,
> > deputy Josephine County health officer.
> >
> > Doctors, nurses and other health care workers who are on the front lines
> > are becoming overwhelmed as the case load surpasses even last year's
> > peak of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
> >
> > � oIt� Ts heart-breaking. People are exhausted. You can see it in their
> > eyes,� said Dr. Jason Kuhl, chief medical officer for Providence
> > Medical Center in Medford, Oregon. He described how patients who need
> > care are forced to wait on gurneys in hallways, creating an obstacle
> > course of beds and a cacophony of beeping monitoring machines.
> >
> > Amanda Kotler, a registered nurse who is vice president of nursing at
> > Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, described seeing nurses
> > who have hit the wall, emotionally and physically, as they try to care
> > for patients, some of whom are dying.
> >
> > � oImagine the physical exhaustion of being in PPE for 12-, 16-, 20-hour
> > shifts. It� Ts hot. You� Tre caring for patients. You� Tre struggling to
> > keep them alive,� Kotler said in the joint Zoom news conference.
> >
> > The patients can't have visitors and family support, so nurses wind up
> > facilitating phone conversations with their loved ones, "often when
> > they� Tre saying goodbye,� she said.
> >
> > Oregon Health Authority director Pat Allen said Wednesday that Oregon's
> > record-setting COVID-19 hospitalization rate is filling hospitals
> > statewide.
> >
> > On Thursday, there were a record number of hospitalized patients with
> > COVID-19 across Oregon, at 670. A total of 177 were in intensive care
> > units, the OHA said.
> >
> > � oOur ICUs are full. Our doctors and nurses are exhausted and
> > rightfully frustrated because this crisis is avoidable. It is like
> > watching a train wreck coming and knowing that there� Ts an opportunity
> > to switch tracks, yet we feel helpless while we watch unnecessary loss
> > of life,� said David Zonies, associate chief medical officer at
> > Portland's Oregon Health & Science University.
> >
> > The hospitals are so overflowing in Jackson and Josephine counties,
> > which lie along the California border, that health officials there have
> > asked the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Emergency Management for a
> > field hospital and more nurses.
> >
> > � oWe still haven� Tt heard anything,� said Tanya Phillips, health
> > promotion and preparedness manager for Jackson County Public Health.
> >
> > Rudy Owens, an OHA spokesman, said in an email that the state agency is
> > working with federal agencies to try to obtain mobile hospitals.
> >
> > This surge is hitting like a tsunami, and comes after people thought the
> > worst was over.
> >
> > � oWhen I think back, just a little over a month ago, we had zero
> > positive cases in our hospital," said Chris Pizzi, CEO of Providence
> > Medical Center in Medford. � oAnd in just that short period of time, we
> > have seen an escalation like we have never seen.�
> >
> > What caused the latest wave to hit Oregon so hard? The state had been
> > seen largely as a success story, instituting lockdowns and a mask
> > mandate, which was repealed at the end of June. The coronavirus came
> > back with vengeance with its new variant.
> >
> > � oI think the lifting of the mask restrictions, the fact that we have
> > one of the lowest vaccination rates in all of the state here in our
> > county has really contributed significantly to the problems that we� Tre
> > seeing right now,� Pizzi said.
> >
> >
>
> Trump said it would go away by Easter 2020 without any further action and
> you voted for him!