to discharge patients because of staff shortages in nursing homes and rehab centers. Recently, a friend of mine who works in New York City told me that it had taken him four hours to transfer a critical heart-attack patient to a larger facility just a few miles away—there weren’t enough ambulance crews.
Along with the exodus of health-care workers, another mass movement has occurred. Regular patients—those with kidney disease, or cancer, or heart problems—have begun returning to the E.R. Many stayed away during the pandemic’s first year and are now worse as a result. Cancers are more advanced; chest pain has turned into heart failure; and people with kidney disease now need dialysis.
The situation inside our hospital is bleak, and has been for months. Patients are filling up our waiting rooms, each one tagged with a complaint on the computer dashboard: cough, fever, shortness of breath. We’re even running out of basic supplies, including endotracheal tubes for intubation, and blood. A few days ago, we ran out of rapidtests. A courier had to fetch more from another hospital. The bottom line is that if you come to our E.R. seeking care, you may not receive it.
This, too, isn’t a message of despair but of clarity. We need to see things and attend to them as they really are, even if it’s difficult. We’ve come a long way, and the end of the pandemic may very well be in sight. But we’re not there yet, and, in many places, the situation is bad. We have the tools to keep ourselves and others safe, and we need to keep using them. Stay home, wear a mask, and get your shots. Flatten the curve—for yourself and for everyone else.
Sorry but what does 'quietly' mean here?
Healthcare workers have been pretty loud about it, but no one in a position of power will ever deign to listen to those beneath them.
yeah well, people are tired and want to have brunch 🙄
The 'milder Covid' is still hitting the totally unvaccinated or under vaccinated full force. I work for CVS whoever can get successfully vaccinated should so if they do catch the new variant they can hopefully recover at home. Reducing hospital stays. 😉💕🙏
The hush hush virus.
The mark is coming soon, A variant in a world slowly waxing cold will stand no chance against resisting the real MARK, Look what they've done!
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Marston4ca42 Wow. 🤯😢
HC_Richardson Years.
HC_Richardson For profit is the genesis of all this- i worked for such a wonderful system until the CEO at the time saw dollar signs for himself and sold out
My husband waited 6 days in the ER for a room.
Let’s see all the New Yorker articles from early 2021 about the importance of vaccines.
This is what all the screamers ignore! It’s not fair to the ill person, their family, their friends. It’s not fair to the hospital, workers from top to bottom, and those seeking help! My heart to everyone involved! Yo the screamers (I can’t wear a mask) wait till you wear a vent
If only america had billions to waste on healthcare facilities too
Why is the media so obsessed with calling it mild?
Mother in law fell and injured her hip she had replaced. Literally could not walk. Sent home because hospital was full of covid patients. Sister hospital had 3 beds open, but they wouldn't take her because she wasn't 'critical'. 83 year old who couldn't walk....
well stop calling it 'mild' for one....
There's been nothing quiet about it. Folks with power just don't care.
You can bet the billing departments haven’t missed a beat! 🤑
And yet, those who refuse vaccination believe they have as much right to hospital care as those dying of cancer or need a heart operation? One minute they are against medical advice and the next they plan to sue if they aren't treated like everyone else?
Stop treating the unvaccinated and the hospitals will have plenty of beds 🤷♂️💯🇺🇸
Every wilfully unvaccinated person is cause of this.
A crisis that did not need to be if people were vaxxed. The GOP propaganda machine creating yet another crisis that could have been avoided if there were actual leaders in their ranks.
They should have kicked out the unvaccinated by choice and made room for him.
The article quite quietly whispers... unvaccinated. Like it’s a condition people can’t help. Like having diabetes or something. Nope. They don’t have a pre condition other than ignorance and stubbornness. Let em die as they wish. Faster the better so rest of us can move on.
Why 'quietly'?
I hope all the exploited essential workers from nurses to people working retail start quitting in droves. The sooner the collapse of the American healthcare system, the sooner we can make it better.
End for profit healthcare
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Yup our healthcare system is a complete joke. But that’s what happens when you treat healthcare as a profit driven business. Medicare for all could and would’ve saved so many lives.
You have to wonder why though. I think it has less to do with omicron and more about management. After all, cases were way down during the spring and summer.
Let’s not pretend the health insurance industry isn’t gleeful about getting rid of their profit-losing customers.
Im guessing the hospital didnt know how to provide services? Did they think about Zoom? Borrowing equipment? Anything other than just let the patient deteriorate?
Quietly?
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