Verbal and physical attacks on health workers surge

[struggle4progress]

BY KAREN BROOKS HARPER
SEPT. 1, 20214 AM CENTRAL

... The man needed to get a temperature screening to make sure he showed no early signs of COVID-19 before entering the hospital.

The man refused, became agitated and began angrily shouting ...

The scene got so tense that San Antonio police were called ...

Half of all Texas nurses reported verbal and physical abuse at work in 2016 - the last year Texas health officials surveyed them ...

... confrontations at Parkland .. this year have included “people being punched in the chest, having urine thrown on them and inappropriate sexual innuendos or behaviors in front of staff members. The verbal abuse, the name-calling, racial slurs … we’ve had broken bones, broken noses” ...

Many of the problems being reported in recent months include disagreements over masking and screening protocols ...

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/01/coronavirus-texas-hospital-attacks-health-workers/

[dalton99a]

1. Attackers should be triaged to the morgue

[hlthe2b]

2. A nationwide problem now. At least flight attendents have police on the ground, NTS and

generally fellow passengers to back them up. Hospitals are having trouble keeping enough security and so much COVID-19 is tying up 911 so that police backup is, at a minimum, greatly delayed. It is not merely unpleasant, it has become dangerous to a level I'd never have imagined.

The public has no idea what is going on in the nations' hospitals, especially the ERs.

[Sugarcoated]

3. It needs to be reported on

The press needs to do it's fucking job