The choice to not take the COVID vaccine I feel is not defendable. The facts are that 99% of hospitalizations/deaths due to COVID are unvaccinated patients currently. This has caused a more severe strain on a already extremely stressed hospital staff, shortage of equipment and services, injury and death from other causes due to delay of care and suffering of everyone involved in the hospitalized COVID patient among other issues. Virologists report delta and other strains are accelerated and created due to the numbers of unvaccinated people in the US. The fact that vaccination rates have only increased about 20% since July with the information available is appalling, while there are 130k new infections daily in the US. This should not be a personal or individual choice and appears due to unfounded anxiety, medical or religious exception and or politics.
They are trying to send patients to Washington state and Utah.
Thanks for sharing. I was wondering how states who's leaders and citizens actively worked to curb the pandemic would respond when their neighbor states became overwhelmed with cases.
They are trying to send patients to Washington state and Utah.
22 minutes ago, Charlcie said:
Thanks for sharing. I was wondering how states who's leaders and citizens actively worked to curb the pandemic would respond when their neighbor states became overwhelmed with cases.
I'm in Alaska. Washington state is our rescue state. We have a vaccine reluctant population that doesn't like to mask.
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2 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:
I'm in Alaska. Washington state is our rescue state. We have a vaccine reluctant population that doesn't like to mask.
From that article it seems like washington is being conservative with accepting patients so they can conserve beds. Have ya'll had to send any patients there ?
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23 hours ago, imppress said:
See, this is counterproductive.
Outside of deep south states, this is statistically unlikely. The highest risk people (elderly, for example) have already vaxxed up and won't die.
You forget that prior to last Spring, the vaccine was not available. I personally know 3 people who have died (two of them were a nurse friend and her husband, leaving behind 4 young children), have a very good friend who has been in the ICU since July (almost died, now is doing better) - she was on ECMO for SIX WEEKS. While it appears now that she will survive, she will likely need a lung transplant, and may need a kidney transplant as well. And another nurse friend who has been unable to work because she can't walk more than 20 feet without getting completely winded. All of them share the same thing - they were unvaccinated.
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CDC data is inconclusive as to if having COVID confers immunity or got how long!