COVID patients overwhelm Texas hospitals, amid 'hair on fire' crisis

[Gabe Lackmann]

You feeling the need to tell me how you don't care in such detail gives the lie to your statement.

Oh, don't get it twisted, I am gonna come at you sideways later but right now this Bordeaux is nice. I'm just readin. Cheers Crep.

 

[Crepitus]

Oh, don't get it twisted, I am gonna come at you sideways later but right now this Bordeaux is nice. I'm just readin. Cheers Crep.

Good job backing up. Enjoy your wine.

 

[Lesh]

Lesh...you dimed me out to the mods...so I am not gonna debate you for a while. I don't put anyone on ignore but you ratted me out.

Don’t break the ******* rules. There ain’t many

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Don’t break the ******* rules. There ain’t many

Rat ****.

 

[Lesh]

Rat ****.

Awwwww

Poor ******

 

[jbrownson0831]

Well...looks like Texas is having a 'Texas-sized' relapse--of note in this article is that almost all who are in ICU's...almost all who are dying, are unvaccinated.

COVID patients overwhelm Texas hospitals, amid 'hair on fire' crisis

COVID patients overwhelm Texas hospitals, amid 'hair on fire' crisis
Hospitals across the state of Texas are once again finding themselves buckling under the pressures of an overwhelmed health system, with an average of more than 1,700 patients a day currently streaming into emergency rooms across the state.
"I feel like the surge came on quicker than we were expecting," Dr. Lindsay Sonstein, a general medicine physician at the University of Texas Medical Branch's Jennie Sealy Hospital, told ABC News. "All of a sudden, it's exponential rise again in the middle of the summer."
Nationwide, more than 100,000 patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. About 14,000 of those patients are in Texas -- the highest number of patients receiving care on record. And statewide, nearly 94% of intensive care unit beds are currently in use by COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.
At Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas, front-line workers told ABC News that at times, they feel "hopeless" amid this latest surge, particularly given the fact that among those with the virus currently being treated in the ICU, all but one patient, who is immunocompromised, are unvaccinated.
"There are many patients that are not doing well," said Dr. Shawn Nishi, an associate professor of critical care medicine at UTMB. "It's very chaotic, because these patients are very unpredictable. At one moment they look great and the next moment, they're dying. ... It is a 'hair on fire' time in the ICUs."
About two-thirds of the hospital's ICU patients are COVID-19 positive, she added, with nearly all of them on ventilators.
Nishi acknowledged that caring for COVID-19 patients for over a year and a half has been an incredibly difficult burden to bear for the health care workers, and it is now rendered even more stressful by the increasing number of younger patients. The staff is "emotionally spent" she said.
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"You will see the nurses' faces. They are the heart and soul of this institution, but a little bit of them is dying with every patient," Nishi said. "Half the COVID-19 patients right now are younger than I am. ... That's never, ever happened in my career. Now, I'm not that old, so that will tell you the average age of our patient is very, very young. We're not used to taking care of that population -- emotionally, physically."
Many of the hospital's patients are so extremely sick that they are on ventilators and unable to communicate, said Yolanda Leyva, the hospital's program manager for ECMO, a device used for cardiac and respiratory support. A significant number will not make it, she said.
"This is real. And I say every day I wish those people could take a walk through these units, and see what these patients are going through," Leyva said, referring to the unvaccinated.
Leyva admitted her frustration with the rampant misinformation about vaccines, urging people to stop reading what is on social media, and instead seek answers from their doctors. "I mean, I feel bad that they died, but they put themselves in that situation," she said.
There are 678 patients waiting for a bed across southeast Texas, with more than 4,000 patients hospitalized across the region, compared to just 138 patients in ICUs with COVID-19 at the beginning of July, according to the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council.

Only 20% of ICU beds are taken across US, but if Pinochijoe keeps bringing in diseased illegals I suppose that number will go up right Dimmer??

 

[Turtlesoup]

Abbot has been a huge advocate for the virus. There's no way it could have made this much progress this quickly without his help.

It's the illegals that are spreading it and for some other reasons COVID is targeting hispanics...I've been seeing more hispanic friends, coworkers, employees catch and die from Covid than others....and now some stats are sneaking out even though the government has been doing their best to hide facts. This virus when it hits, it doesn't just take out one in our hispanic families but takes many out in groups. This is especially odd since hispanic populations are on average younger than others.

Publicly available data on racial and ethnic disparities related to COVID-19 (ie, people who have been tested for, who were infected by, or who have died from the virus) are now surfacing, and these data suggest that the novel virus has disproportionately sickened Hispanic communities (5–7). For example, in Pennsylvania’s neighboring state New Jersey, 19% of the total population is Hispanic but Hispanic people make up 30% of COVID-19 cases (6). Similar COVID-19 case rate disparities for Hispanic people are reported in many states across the United States such as Utah (14% of total population vs 38% of COVID-19 cases) and Washington (13% of total population vs 34% of COVID-19 cases) (6). Partial COVID-19 death data disaggregated by Hispanic ethnicity also show that Hispanic people are dying at a rate above what population data would suggest (7). For example, CDC’s weighted population data show that over 26% of US COVID-19 deaths were among Hispanic people, who represent only 18% of the total US population (7). In Pennsylvania, where Hispanic people are 7.6% of total state population, 11% of COVID-19 deaths were among Hispanic people, when applying weighted population distributions (7).

Reaching the Hispanic Community About COVID-19 Through Existing Chronic Disease Prevention Programs

Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal established by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. PCD provides an open exchange of information and knowledge among researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and others who strive to...

www.cdc.gov

 

[Lesh]

It's the illegals that are spreading it

No. It is not your favorite whipping boy

It's vaccine resistant Republicans that are not only causing this but dying of it

 

[Crepitus]

It's the illegals that are spreading it

Debunked fake news. Try again with a different excuse please.

 

[justinacolmena]

COVID patients overwhelm Texas hospitals, amid 'hair on fire' crisis

Two bits for a shave and a haircut, vaccines are free, with a bloodletting by medicinal leeches.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The states suffering a surge of covid have a surge of invaders.

Thousands of COVID-positive migrants passing through Texas border city

Nearly 7,000 immigrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have passed through a Texas city that has become the epicenter of the illegal immigration surge.

nypost.com

It is not that hard to figure out.

 

[Lesh]

The states suffering a surge of covid have a surge of invaders.

Thousands of COVID-positive migrants passing through Texas border city

Nearly 7,000 immigrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have passed through a Texas city that has become the epicenter of the illegal immigration surge.

nypost.com

It is not that hard to figure out.

So a few thousand immigrants are responsible for a nationwide covid surge but tens of millions of unaxxed Trumpers is not?

Sure...that makes sense

 

[Lesh]

The states suffering a surge of covid have a surge of invaders.

Thousands of COVID-positive migrants passing through Texas border city

Nearly 7,000 immigrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have passed through a Texas city that has become the epicenter of the illegal immigration surge.

nypost.com

It is not that hard to figure out.

And your own article ( from a month ago) states that they are tested (which is how we know they're covid positive) and then sequestered

 

[EvilCat Breath]

And your own article ( from a month ago) states that they are tested (which is how we know they're covid positive) and then sequestered

the camps are overflowing. They just aren't dying fast enough.

 

[Borillar]

How about this guy?

Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

His pregnant wife said this week that the hospital was "out of options" for her husband.

www.huffpost.com

“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”

He organized a rally in July. Late July he got covid

When he first felt symptoms on July 26, his wife told the Standard-Times, he refused to get tested or seek medical care. He instead began treating himself with a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that has been falsely promoted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by conservative media. He was taken to the hospital on July 30.

Well that’s where he went wrong. He forgot to take the fish tank cleaner, inject bleach, and shine a flashlight up his ass.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Well that’s where he went wrong. He forgot to take the fish tank cleaner, inject bleach, and shine a flashlight up his ass.

But (p)Resident Sleepy, Mr. "you know, the thing" is so much more articulate!

 

[Borillar]

But (p)Resident Sleepy, Mr. "you know, the thing" is so much more articulate!

Yes. Yes he is.

 

[krichton]

The states suffering a surge of covid have a surge of invaders.

Thousands of COVID-positive migrants passing through Texas border city

Nearly 7,000 immigrants who tested positive for COVID-19 have passed through a Texas city that has become the epicenter of the illegal immigration surge.

nypost.com

It is not that hard to figure out.

There's a surge in every red state. Are all covid positive immigrates parachuting into them?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Yes. Yes he is.

Sure, if English is your second language. Right?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

There's a surge in every red state. Are all covid positive immigrates parachuting into them?

The Biden administration sends them in buses. Some fly.