He died after waiting 15 days for a hospital bed. His family blames unvaccinated covid-19 patients.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/28/iowa-dale-weeks-hospitals-covid-sepsis/

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https://archive.fo/7jr0h

Throughout his life, Dale Weeks was characterized by family and friends in Iowa as “a good neighbor,” someone who would do anything for anyone. So when he was diagnosed with sepsis last month, the retired schools superintendent and his family hoped he would get immediate care and be okay to reunite with them for the holidays.

But at a time when unvaccinated covid-19 patients have again overwhelmed hospitals because of the fast-spreading omicron variant, finding an available bed at a large medical center able to give him the treatment he needed proved to be difficult. Weeks was being treated at a small, rural hospital. He had waited 15 days to be transferred to a larger hospital with better treatment options, because facilities throughout Iowa did not have an open bed for him as a result of the latest hospital surge of unvaccinated patients, his children told The Washington Post.

“It was terribly frustrating being told, ‘There’s not a bed yet,’ ” Jenifer Owenson, one of his four children, said Tuesday. “All of us were talking multiple times a day, ‘Why can’t we get him a bed?’ There was this logjam to get him in anywhere.”

When Weeks was finally able to have surgery more than two weeks later, his condition from sepsis had worsened. Weeks died Nov. 28 of complications after surgery. He was 78.

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[wryter2000]

1. There must be some way to triage the unvaccinated to some other source of treatment

This sort of thing has to stop.

Maybe save a bed or two aside for people like this man. Tell the unvaccinated "there's no bed."

[RKP5637]

4. They need to be a low priority so they don't hog hospitals because of their ingrained

stupidity. Let them die, I could give a fuck, they made the decision.

[KT2000]

5. I think he was triaged

due to his age. I just hope they were able to keep him comfortable because that is an awful way to go.

[WHITT]

2. They're A Scourge On Society

The 'Covid Magas' are modern day 'Typhoid Marys'.

[roamer65]

3. They should be put out on cots in parking lot tents.

[leftstreet]

6. Blame for profit healthcare. Merger$, closure$, investor$

[sdfernando]

7. Hospitals should each make 1 Unvaxed COVID Ward or Floor

When those beds fill up then its tough shit! Exceptions to only those that cannot be vaxed due to medical reasons. Religious exemption?...go home and pray to your deity.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. Another exception would be children

They often have no say in their own vaccination status. I hate that it's come to this. I'm not an unfeeling person but it angers me that people with other emergencies can't get care because the willfully unvaccinated have taken all the beds.

[sdfernando]

15. Yes, certainly children should be exempted as well. /nt

[Midnight Writer]

8. Local hospital has 9 ICU rooms. 8 now full with Covid patients, 6 of them unvaccinated.

This rural hospital is the only one in 6 county area.

Heaven help any local folks with stroke, heart attack, traumatic injury.

[Horse with no Name]

9. I have been seeing this over and over with our patients

The hospitals are all full.
Do not take your loved one to a small hospital if you think they need advanced care unless truly emergent care is needed.
If you live in a rural area, drive them to the city.
Nobody can take transfers.
I did this for a family member recently.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. These patients should definitely be prioritized over antivax covidiots.

[oasis]

11. No vax, no service. Period.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. We need vaccine passports and to exclude/shun assholes who refuse to be vaccinated

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. My condolences to his family and friends

This poor man suffered a needless, preventable death because of the stupidity and selfishness of others.