Coronavirus spikes in Texas: This hospital has quadrupled capacity yet is almost full

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This Houston hospital tried to prepare for the second wave of COVID-19, but was already 80% full this week as a nurse and doctor fell ill.

The medical team pressed closer. Hill caught sight of a plastic hook the size of his hand and a tube as long as his arm. He began to tremble.

A truck driver, Hill was another life crisis, another troubling statistic, in a snapshot of America. He was soon sedated, unconscious, eyes staring blankly. Varon and his team inserted the tube into Hill’s mouth. The ventilator took over; he stopped breathing on his own. The heart monitor flashed. Something was wrong.Two medical students began pumping Hill’s chest. A dozen students and nurses rushed in with surgical tools and echocardiography equipment to check Hill’s heart.

“This is what we’ve been going through every day,” Varon said, his gloves and hazmat suit bloody. “People don’t believe what’s going on: We’re bringing people back from the brink of death.” Varon has treated a 19-year-old man with few symptoms but a deadly blood clot in his lungs, a 29-year-old woman turned away from another private hospital, and a woman who fell ill after hosting a 150-seat family funeral for her husband — who had died of COVID-19. Some of those they called to notify about positive tests were at parties, or worked at nursing homes and didn’t want to stop.“The problem is if we get all the patients at the same time,” Varon said. “That’s the situation we’re in.

The beach vacation she had planned instead has become days of isolation. She sent her 9- and 10-year-old daughters to stay with their father in Los Angeles. She was receiving the stem cell treatment, but worried about blood clots, her barking cough and recent panic attacks. COVID had left her dependent on the very team she had left short-staffed.

 

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more fake news, this was completly staged with crisis actors, people please wake the fuck up

SLOPPY DONALD TRUMP WILL CALL THIS A HOAX...

Does it ever dawn on the dumb bastards who vote Republican that their state is better than this. Texas needs to get rid of Republican incompetent rule. The Republicans did this to Texas as sure as they never built Houston to weather hurricanes or even rain storms.

Wonder why.

🤔 seems this could have been avoided as the last time this happened was in MARCH! Chalk it up to Vanity, greed, and pride, continue the quarantine please.

Pathetically sad and most preventable, had people not been so selfish, ignorant and childish. Now look. Was the freedom to protest, go to bars and beaches worth it

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