Colorado hospitals allowed to turn away patients amid Covid-19 surge

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Hospitals in Colorado are being allowed to turn away patients as the state experiences its worst Covid surge in a year.

The emergency room team at the Aurora Medical Center gears up for the arrival of a patient in April 2020.signed Sunday by Gov. Jared Polis gives health care professionals the authority to prioritize crisis care under the direction of the state health department.

Dr. Carrie Goodson left, comforts a patient as she is intubated, while nurses Ashley Vite, center, and Amy Cooper assist in the ICU Covid ward at the Medical Center of Aurora, in Colorado in May 2020."If you are unvaccinated, a regular trip to the grocery store, a night out to dinner are more dangerous than they have been at any point during this pandemic," Polis said Monday in Covid-19 update.

The majority of Covid hospitalizations are among unvaccinated people,"at somewhere between 80 and 90 percent across Colorado," said Dr. Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection control and prevention for UCHealth, the largest hospital in the Denver area. Doctors and nurses have been taking extra shifts and working overtime to meet the growing need, said Dr. Eric Poeschla, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Hospital, where 85 percent of all Covid patients are unvaccinated.

 

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Hey, Boebert. Quit being a Twitter troll whose sole accomplishments are juvenile attempts to own the Libs. Get on the phone, mobilize your staff, help your state. Do something other than silly pranks. Respect the people of Colorado—help them.

Hopefully they're turning away the unvaxxed and not people who actually need help.

If not vaccinated go home and quarantine yourself - Even if you are flopping like a fish out of water - You have right to die at home ❤️

We should do the same here in Canada - no vaccine, end of the line!

Gee Boebert never mentions this in her tweets.

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The vaccinated are protected though! 😂

Meanwhile they're firing thousands of health care professionals. Hell of a tactic.

Stop sharing joints.

It's not surge its resurge.

The unvaccinated are to blame! That’s the headline.

when will the non- VAXer realise how stupid they are because when they are dead it is too late. remember you all get vaccinated and wear a mask when needed and be a part of the solution and not the problem

Which wouldn't need to happen if early treatment was given instead of just relying on only one solution.

How will this be different from the usual triage? What does this mean?

'The delta variant is brutally effective at seeking out the unvaccinated, like a laser-guided missile.'

The scourge of the unvaccinated. So tragic; so avoidable.

You make your choice, accept the consequences.

Unvaxxed should be turned away automatically

I am surprised that these medical personel are not taking this like real, mob 3 everything covered, nothing left open, virus/germs can enter thru the skin, eyes, ears, hair everything needs to be covered. take no risk or chance. its a fact.

NBC why are you retreading a story that is old news? covid cases are going down across the country

This will be nationwide again soon.

Don't take unvaccinated people before other sick people

I was just discharged from the largest hospital in the state, University of Colorado. I had sepsis & was in for a few weeks. I was a patient when the surge began & can confirm it's awful. Unvaxed patients are filling the hospital up & people who need non-Covid emergency care /1

Whatever happened to the individual taking the consequences and not blaming the world for the result of their own choices?

Until the whole world get to know how good and generous he's, I won't stop saying this cause my life has taken another great shape financially Geoffreypreud God bless you.

flat out bullshit. looking forward to the tick tock videos to commemorate the Omega variant.

Good news channel

Same in Utah

If only like 80% of the state wasn't already vaccinated. Shoot, darn it. What else can we blame it on?

REMEMBER AMERICA IT'S ALL GOOD THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WE HAVE THE MOST DEATHS FROM COVID

Non vaccinated should be the first to be turned away

Turn away all antivaxxers. They can stay home and take their horse dewormer, let their NaTuRaL iMmUnItY take care of it.

Just give everyone Ivermectin everyone will survive! Science

Turn away anti vaxxers

Dr. Luc Montagnier reveals how Covid-19 is a lab accident He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the identification AIDS.He currently works at University in China The accident was said to have taken place in the Wuhan National Biosafety lab

I thought the vaccines worked?

but the idiots with covid that say its a hoax & refused the vaccination will be taking all the beds and harming the ones in need.there needs to be a nationwide DNR list for the covid antivaxers.they behave like fools knowing full well they have a medical parachute.take it away...

My state thought it would be a great time to lift the mask mandate. Heading into winter, before kids 5-11 are vaxxed. Surely what happened in July with Delta won’t happen again just in time for Xmas 🙄 bc ppl can’t possibly do the bare minimum to end a pandemic.

Good! Anti vaxxers shouldn’t be allowed at hospitals anyway

As should all hospitals for all unvaccinated people. If they don’t want to get vaccinated then they don’t deserve a hospital bed and treatment either. They made a choice. Choices have consequences. Stay home and take ivermectin.

RepBoebert out there dancing and singing about the virus being fake.

And hopefully they’re choosing the vaccinated and children

Then why should we care about getting vaccinated or supporting medical/state officials if they don't care about helping all people

Good as long as they’re only turning away those unvaccinated.

I watch the football game. I sure that has nothing to do with it but I did watch the game.

Haz_el_eyes UBI.

I hate that misguided individuals are like lambs being led to slaughter. I have no sympathy and I lost it a long time ago and I don't see my empathy bouncing back anytime soon. I support their policy and applaud them protecting the regular flow of patients ERs typically see.

There’s no more room in the ICU. People who should be doing the right thing such as wearing masks and getting vaxed are showing up at hospitals looking to have their lives saved from something that could have been prevented. Stop looking for a back door.

isn't this the witch's territory? laurenboebert

Healthcare is a human right unless the Democrats don’t like you or your personal opinions

After laying off a bunch of healthcare workers 😡

But there not, as someone who lives and knows some people working in these exact hospitals, it's not covid it's that they're understaffed because of the mandates and all the other political bullshit. They worked a whole almost 2 years without the vaccine

Maybe Hospitals should be liable for deaths that happen after they turn people away.

Turn away all the unvaccinated

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