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Related: About this forumIowan dies after a 15-day wait for a medical center bed. His survivors blame the COVID surge
Dale Weeks family believes he was an indirect victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The retired Iowa school superintendent died in late November, nearly a month after he was diagnosed with sepsis, a dangerous, blood-borne infection unrelated to the coronavirus.
His daughters think he might have survived if hed been admitted immediately to a large medical center, where he could have received advanced testing and prompt surgery.
But he stayed for 15 days at Newtons relatively small hospital because the bigger facilities said they couldnt spare a bed for him, his family says. Iowas short-staffed hospitals have been jammed for months with patients, including people severely sickened by COVID-19.
Its infuriating that people who are not vaccinated are clogging it up, said Jenifer Owenson of Des Moines, who is one of Weeks four children.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iowan-dies-15-day-wait-120102806.html
childfreebychoice
(476 posts)liberalla
(10,044 posts)and we'll never know for sure if the outcome would've been different.
Ford_Prefect
(8,203 posts)A number of public health experts have been saying since this all began that a dangerous side effect of the anti-vaccination crowd would be all the people who had to delay or forgo treatment due to the overload generated by unvaccinated COVID patients consuming medical services, resources, and monopolizing medical staff.
The number list of dead from COVID doesn't record those who died from collateral damage caused by COVID patients consuming medical resources. Nor does it account for the long term effects visited on those who have survived but have Long-COVID conditions to contend with, or on their families and communities. If and when they finally succumb they will not be listed among the casualties of Donald's Folly.
SergeStorms
(19,312 posts)stay the fuck home and squeeze a few more tubes of horse-dewormer up your ass.
This really pisses me off. What happened to the assholes who were kidnapping anti-vaxxers from hospitals? They're not working hard enough to save their brothers and sisters from the ravages of medical science, I'll tell you that.
Innocent people dying because of these brain dead shitheads who suddenly decide they want medical assistance is fucking stupid! Let the rotten bastards die with their stupid decisions.
Kablooie
(18,784 posts)Anyone else should get treatment first.
Rebl2
(14,794 posts)time to set up Covid hospitals similar to TB hospitals from the past. All unvaccinated Covid-19 patients should be sent there. (Vaccinated patients can go to regular hospitals) The military might be able to set them up. Problem is finding doctors to run them. Maybe some trump supporting doctors.
Tommymac
(7,334 posts)Stock them up with plenty of bleach and horse dewormer. Illuminate them with black UV lights.
And of coarse masks are forbidden inside too.
raising2moredems
(710 posts)His death was due to COVID-19 - not that he had it, that he could not get the necessary care due to Covidiots. And yes, the 99% who are not vaccinated (very few cannot be vaccinated) should *not* be occupying a bed needed for the vaccinated.