Doctors issue grave warning to Memphis and Shelby County leaders as COVID-19 cases continue to surge

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/doctors-issue-grave-warning-to-memphis-and-shelby-county-leaders-as-covid-19-cases-continue-to-surge/522-d589caeb-340f-4dd6-918d-85a0a01e5158

“We must inform you that we may have to begin triaging patients,” this due to “a lack of skilled personnel resources.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center along with top doctors from every hospital in the Memphis area sent a grave warning to Memphis and Shelby County officials about the area hospital situation.

The letter said "currently our system emergency departments are operating dangerously over capacity and housing dozens of admitted patients in each of our Emergency Departments". They expect hospitalized COVID patients to double by the end of August and increase six-fold by the end of September, which would mean more admitted COVID patients than the City of Memphis has beds for on any normal day.

More at link. No way, imo, should willful anti vaxers be allowed to break our healthcare system! Send them home with rx for oxygen or whatever.

[Captain Zero]

1. Hand them a waiting list number and tell them they will be called at home.

When there is a bed available. They will have one hour to get there and claim it.
Give them a list of quarantine rules and suggestions for pain and symptom relief.

[democrattotheend]

19. That's a great idea

Most people would probably be more comfortable waiting at home anyway, and it's less likely to spread COVID to people in the waiting room.

[Botany]

2. "hospitalized COVID patients to double by the end of August .. increase six-fold by the end of Sept"

Good God that is just chilling. And not that it matters but I'm 100% w/SheltieLover ... do not tie up
and medical personal, equipment, or bed space on the anti vax & anti mask people.

Build tent cities and give 'em food, water, and palliative care only.

If I was in that area and I hadn't had a vax then I would be getting one tomorrow.

[sheshe2]

3. Triage.

They are concerned about not being able to provide timely care to everyone and said they will have to make decisions on care based on the probability of survival.


care based on the probability of survival.

[SheltieLover]

5. This!👆

[sheshe2]

8. It is what you do when you are at war.

And we are at war against stupid.

A decision that I would never want to make, however one that needs to be made.

[Texaswitchy]

4. Knew this was coming.

Triage.

The anti-vax back of the line.

[SheltieLover]

6. hopefully, anti vaxers will be back of line!

[Luciferous]

7. Yes! Unless they have a legitimate reason for not being vaccinated, send them back home.

I watched a news clip where a woman who works for an ambulance company spent 2 hours trying to find a bed for a patient who had a heart attack. He ended up going into cardiac arrest while he was waiting. These dumbasses are destroying the chance for other people to get treatment.

[George McGovern]

9. Yeah, but will the "leaders" do anything?

[SheltieLover]

11. Of course not!

The county has reinstated an indoor mask mandate & school board has been firm against gov Lee's parental opt out of masks order.

Other than that, not much they can do.

Counties surrounding Memphis all come to Memphis for hospital care, in addition to much of northern MS.

For some reason unknown to me, they dismantled a 400-bed overflow hospital built out by the Army Corps of Engineers way early.

When it was built, they said it was planned to stay open for either 2 or 4 years - I can't recall which, but we are a long way from that point.

Anyway, the Dem leadership in Memphis is superb, but overshadowed by qpuke gov & legislature.

Last year the county schools were fully virtual, which likely saved many deaths.

Of course, that drove the gov & his cronies to the poibt of threatening to pull something like $80 mill in school funding. Never happened though.

Madness.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Send them home with a picture of white Jesus and a Trumpy Bear.

And let them take care of their own. Leave my fellow HCPs and their families out of it.

If you called us evil, threatened us, and told us (providers and nurses) we didn't know what we were talking about when we told you the vaccine was free, that it's safe, and it's effective . . . . . why on earth would you want to come to us now? Just NO. Take care of your own, and good luck. Also, stay the fuck out of public while you're busy dying please. Same goes for your family. Thank you, that will be all.

[madville]

25. That would probably be pretty insulting in a majority Black area

Memphis is 65% Black and Shelby County is 52% Black. Black people in Tennessee are also the least vaccinated demographic group at 35% so it's a safe bet that the majority of people being admitted there are unvaccinated African Americans with common comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc.

You all keep fantasizing that these ICUs are just full of unvaccinated white trump supporters though.....

[spanone]

12. ...and we can thank our dumbfuck governor

[SheltieLover]

13. Likely making a fortune off this!

Somehow in this bassackwards hellhole, there are antibody treatment centers all over the place.

[spanone]

14. Can't wait to send him back to the plumbing world.

[SheltieLover]

15. He is a plumber?

I wouldn't allow that moron to pay me to plunge my toilet!

[spanone]

27. he owns a plumbing company here in Nashville

[BeckyDem]

16. I keep hoping there is a rock bottom for these people, but I doubt

it exists. You would think their own children would be enough.

[SheltieLover]

18. Apparently not!

I saw 8 kids at bus stop a couple of days ago, 3 parents.

5 elementary kids, 3 high schoolers.

ONE had mask on correctly. High school kid.

2 elem kids had masks on chin.

Wth is wrong with these people?

[BeckyDem]

26. Horrifying.

Stay safe out there!

[Cha]

17. Stay Safe you Mask Lover You!

[SheltieLover]

20. Mahalo, Cha

Same to you, my friend! I LOVE my 3M N-95s.

Idgaf what anyone says or how they look at me. They work!

Aloha 🌺

[Cha]

21. Good to know.. so far my Flower

design masks work for Kauai. But everyone follows protocol.

Aloha

[SheltieLover]

22. Well, therein lies the difference: compliance

You could wear flowered mask over N-95 too!

[Cha]

23. I guess I could!

[SheltieLover]

24. 👍

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