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Nevilledog

(51,212 posts)
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 03:55 PM Oct 2020

Utah - "patients getting worse despite ICU would be moved out first."



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Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
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Oct 26, 2020
HORRIFYING—Utah hospitals so overcrowded—soon starting rationing of ICUs.

“patients getting worse despite ICU would be moved out first. In event 2 patients' conditions are equal, young gets priority over old, since older patients likely to die.” #COVID19

Utah’s hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs
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Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
2) Meanwhile huge numbers of HCW are also hospitalized for #covid19

Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
BREAKING—huge CDC report on hospitalized healthcare workers w/ #COVID19, which comprise 1 in 16.7 (6%) of all hospitalized cases!

📌10% hospitalized had zero risk factor! (Median age only 49, so not old at all)

📌Whopping 36% hospitalized were nurses! 🧵
https://cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6943e3.htm
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Utah - "patients getting worse despite ICU would be moved out first." (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2020 OP
At the Levels Looming, Ma'am, Triage Seems Unavoidable The Magistrate Oct 2020 #1
Indeed. nt crickets Oct 2020 #4
Poor fucking Utah, full of tRump-loving, Covid deniers that didn't want to wear masks. Raster Oct 2020 #2
Presided over by a death cult. marybourg Oct 2020 #3

The Magistrate

(95,256 posts)
1. At the Levels Looming, Ma'am, Triage Seems Unavoidable
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 03:59 PM
Oct 2020

Hell to pay for all concerned --- patients, family, and hospital staff.



There Must Be A Reckoning.



Raster

(20,998 posts)
2. Poor fucking Utah, full of tRump-loving, Covid deniers that didn't want to wear masks.
Mon Oct 26, 2020, 04:02 PM
Oct 2020

Pandemics have consequences.

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