Man Dies In Out-Of-State Hospital After Multi-State Cardiac ICU Search - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
Rachel Maddow shares the obituary of Ray DeMonia, who died in a Mississippi hospital 200 miles from his home in Alabama after his family says the hospital there "contacted 43 hospitals in 3 states in search of a Cardiac ICU bed." The family is asking people to get vaccinated in DeMonia's honor to help unclog Alabama's hospital resources. Aired on 09/13/2021.
Health Care Workers Burdened By Emotional Exhaustion, Anger As Covid Drags On - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, talks with Rachel Maddow about the dangerous level of emotional exhaustion that health care workers are experiencing as Covid drags on with no end in sight and patients suffer needlessly as vaccine refusers prolong the pandemic. Aired on 09/13/2021.
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But I fear that we're going to hear many more stories like this... 
If the media would do its job, I'm sure there are many more stories like this. 
Why is this being allowed? 
What I don't understand is why - if they refuse to take medical advice - do these stubbornly ignorant folks head to a hospital as soon as they get sick?? 
Why are hospitals admitting them, very much to the detriment of our healthcare system?
Until they run out of room. 
A "slip-and-fall" proved fatal for my next-door neighbor. A 89-year-old Korean War veteran, he was taken to a nearby (Jacksonville FL) hospital who discharged him several hours after holding him in the Emergency Room.
No beds.
He returned home in tremendous pain -- he had fractured his pelvis -- and was completely immobilized. He could not even feed himself. A week later, he went back to the same hospital. Only after my neighbor's son-in-law (a physician) begged the ER staff, did they find a bed for him. This time, they ran a CT scan and found the fracture, so instead of sending him home again, they sent him to a rehab center. And that's where he died, a couple days later.
BTW, he and his wife were the first on our block to get vaxed. (The son-in-law helped with that). So, this was not Karma catching up with an anti-vaxer. It was a slow, agonizing, and heartbreaking loss.
It can happen to any of us.
The way things are right now in this country, I can't help wondering if there is additional damage or loss of life from those who are sick or injured, but are afraid to go to a hospital now.
And then there's the issue of some medical workers who inexplicably refuse the vaccine. I shared before about an older man (mid 80s) I've seen at local meetings who said he wasn't getting vaccinated because his daughter who is a nurse wasn't getting it and he gets his medical advice from her. He said that she'd sooner quit her job! I have a friend who works in the ER at that hospital (who was the first person I knew who got vaccinated - last January) and she told me that anyone who works there has till the end of this month to get vaccinated. I wonder if this man's daughter is still willing to be out of work during a pandemic. Or how many others there feel the same way?
I am so sorry about your neighbor, this is an inexcusable tragedy. 