Amid COVID-19 Upswing, El Paso, Texas, Doctor Says ICU Is 'Surreal' And 'Strange'

In excerpts from his interview, Alozie, who is also co-chair of the El Paso COVID-19 task force, discusses the surge in cases, the patients who are struggling and what the local response has been.

The one that haunts me the most, I think, is something that, for us, happened over the weekend. One of the nurses was trying to get a patient settled and told me as she was breaking down — because the toll is a lot — about this 50-year-old gentleman that had come in, had been engaged in a family gathering and was now in our ICU struggling for breath.

From an [epidemiological] standpoint, infectious disease standpoint, understanding the dynamics of the virus, it was always expected that the fall would be a troublesome time. I think for our community, it sort of caught us by surprise. We had struggled through the July, August time period. We had gone down. We had positivity rates as low as 4.5% early in September, and the city was really rejoicing over that. And I think what happened is that as a community, we let down our guard.

Rinse and repeat all over the Midwest. Denial is not a strategy.

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You know how we could clear out those Hospital beds. 480,000 people a year dying from Smoking in the USA. BAN SMOKING.

Copy the successful! Do not repeat the NYC fiasco ad nauseum! Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state pop 210m recently ravaged by COVID-19, now boasts just 30 deaths/day! We w/ just 1/3 more pop suffer 750 deaths/day. 25x more! WHY? They use Ivermectin right.

And yet there are no pictures of wards full of sick and dying people...where are the pictures?

NPR: Keeps beating coronavirus stories into the ground and refuses to cover one of the biggest scandals of all time because the person in question is a democrat. BidenIsACriminal

How much can this be attributed to illegal aliens crossing the border there?

I live in El Paso. Yes it’s bad!

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If the domestic terrorist don’t kill you then their Covid Loving President will one way or the other you gotta go.. this a more appropriate headline just facts no reshaping things that have and are happening in real time

Gov. Abbott, the people of Texas thank you and would like you to know they will not forget.

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