How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?
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BTW - young nephew of mine who is studying medicine is currently stationed in London (or just on the outskirts) and he said that while working on a covid ward, they only had surgical masks to wear, no face shields, no N95 masks. He now has vaccine x 2 at least, as does his sister who loves in Canada , who oddly enough also has a PhD. I guess she missed the memo about being too smart to get vaccinated?
Louisiana is approaching a 'major failure' of its healthcare system as hospitals get dangerously close to capacity (msn.com)
Around 3,000 people in the state were in the hospital with COVID-19 as of Sunday - a five-fold increase over the last month. The state's record before vaccines came out was around 2,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations at one time.
"We are rapidly getting to the point where we could have a major failure of our healthcare delivery system," Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a Friday press briefing. "There's some people out there whose care is being delayed to the point where, for them, it's already failed."
When hospitals reach capacity, doctors have to start turning away patients - in some cases determining who lives and who dies. Already, many large hospitals in Louisiana are delaying non-emergency surgeries and denying patient transfers, and some patients have had to wait several hours for emergency room beds.
Healthcare workers are also pleading with residents to get vaccinated.
"The majority of COVID patients that we've seen who are unvaccinated have regret," O'Neal said. "There's so much misinformation and they're sort of surprised that they're in this situation because the reason that they didn't get vaccinated, for the most part, was because they thought they would be OK."
Around 3,000 people in the state were in the hospital with COVID-19 as of Sunday - a five-fold increase over the last month. The state's record before vaccines came out was around 2,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations at one time.
"We are rapidly getting to the point where we could have a major failure of our healthcare delivery system," Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a Friday press briefing. "There's some people out there whose care is being delayed to the point where, for them, it's already failed."
When hospitals reach capacity, doctors have to start turning away patients - in some cases determining who lives and who dies. Already, many large hospitals in Louisiana are delaying non-emergency surgeries and denying patient transfers, and some patients have had to wait several hours for emergency room beds.
Healthcare workers are also pleading with residents to get vaccinated.
"The majority of COVID patients that we've seen who are unvaccinated have regret," O'Neal said. "There's so much misinformation and they're sort of surprised that they're in this situation because the reason that they didn't get vaccinated, for the most part, was because they thought they would be OK."
Shortage of health care workers have been around in the US for at least 5 years. The shift from 8 hours a day to 12 hours a day is one of the reasons for the shortage (overworked), and that occurred more than 5 years ago. COVID just made the shortage more apparent and brought it back into the limelight last year. Last year many healthcare workers lost their jobs because they were part of the elective surgery industry. No patients (due to lockdowns), no money for that clinic or part of the hospital that did elective surgeries. My brother is a RN, and he told me about shortage of nurses in California as far back as 2011 when he first started. It was all over the news then and pops up in the news every few years. No doubt that COVID in the past year has just made it worse in the US.
12 hrs a day, and in many cases forced overtime when required. In some areas that doesn't leave much time for a family, or a life. It creates burnout.
Yup, 12 hours minimum. My brother starts his shift about 1 hour early to handle the transition of patients, and always 1 hour past the end because that's when he's wrapping up paperwork, so 14 hour days for 3-4 days is not uncommon. Then it's 1 hour of traffic getting home (none going to work because he leaves at 4-430am).
Agreed, one reason vs the main reasons, as to why there are shortages in health care workers. Just another example of someone's weak attempt on putting their spin on reality. That, or they are simply terribly misinformed as to what is actually taking place out there in the real world. I see & hear the burnout every day, and I know that it is far far worse in other areas.
Hello; I knew about some of this myself. I had figured it was a productivity or some such business model way of organizing the for profit parts of the health care system. Minimize the number of unused hospital beds and such. A buddy was dating a nurse and I got second hand stories.
Interesting that a surgical person could not replace an overworked covid people.
I think it was in a Dallas Texas hospital where over 100 nurses and staff lost their jobs because they did not want to be forced to take the shots. Even if by the standards mentioned on this thread they all must be dumb, such does not make sense. I can see such a move under normal circumstances, but the need for medical staff in a crisis pandemic emergency ought to give those in authority pause. It would seem forced vaccine compliance takes precedence over adequate staffing.
I must be missing something. All the rest of the staff who are vaccinated have little to worry about from the unvaccinated staff. The unvaccinated staff are willing to take their chances and are the only ones with something to lose. Even if the unvaccinated do get infected while at work that is not such a big risk according to what is being told. The word is all unvaccinated will get the delta, so why not let any work who are willing. They will be working with the already infected so not a risk in that area. Unless of course compliance is more important, which appears to be the case.
Seriously? The unvaccinated SPREAD THE VIRUS. When that happens in a health care setting, like a hospital, the system goes on critical overload. Maybe have a nurse explain this to you, as in someone that is actually working on the front line. Whoa .....
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