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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama man dies of cardiac event after 43 hospitals with full ICUs turned him away
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The family of a man who died of heart issues in Mississippi is asking people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after 43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs.
Ray Martin DeMonia died last week in Meridian, Mississippi. He was three days shy of his 74th birthday and a well-known native in Cullman, Alabama, his family said.
DeMonia suffered from a cardiac event, and emergency staff at Cullman Regional Medical Center had to bring him to the nearest available bed, which was nearly 200 miles away at a Mississippi hospital.
In his obituary, DeMonias family urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non-COVID related emergencies, the obituary read. He would not want any other family to go through what his did.
Ray Martin DeMonia died last week in Meridian, Mississippi. He was three days shy of his 74th birthday and a well-known native in Cullman, Alabama, his family said.
DeMonia suffered from a cardiac event, and emergency staff at Cullman Regional Medical Center had to bring him to the nearest available bed, which was nearly 200 miles away at a Mississippi hospital.
In his obituary, DeMonias family urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non-COVID related emergencies, the obituary read. He would not want any other family to go through what his did.
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Alabama man dies of cardiac event after 43 hospitals with full ICUs turned him away (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2021
OP
Try talking to a wingnut about this, they'll tell ya health care workers are quitting en masse cause
Hugh_Lebowski
Sep 2021
#2
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)1. And a vet in Texas died of gallstones because he couldn't get into an ICU.
herding cats
(19,549 posts)4. Yep.
A horrific and avoidable tragedy.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. Try talking to a wingnut about this, they'll tell ya health care workers are quitting en masse cause
vaccine mandates, which is why there's not enough beds for people like this.
Try it sometime. They're all on the same page.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)3. They're ducking responsibility again
So typical of people like that.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,721 posts)5. The assholes clogging up the ICUs don't give a
Flying shit about Ray. Theyre psychopaths
Champp
(2,114 posts)7. The Republicans have done this to America