Have a set and head to your local hospital and ask. Engage with the people on the frontlines. One of the best comments I heard was "99.6 survival rate does not matter when the hospital is full. because the hospital is full"
Numbers are down 30% in MN the last 2 weeks. I supposed I could ask the unvaccinated contract healthcare worker filling in for the fired health care worker who would not take the shot about how it is going.
Hospitalzations Cases Not sure what other states are doing, it seems lines are going in opposite directions.
One of my employees finally came down with Covid. She picked it up from her husband. Feel pretty lucky having my people in harms way since the beginning and we haven't lost anyone until now. She's young and healthy and feeling pretty good, I expect to see her back to work in 5 days hopefully. She is vaxed and boostered.
Here is my observation. My wife works on the front line and has been dealing with covid infected patients since the beginning. Yes the hospital is full from time to time with sick and covid patients. It goes in waves. But also they are way under staffed and have closed certain areas of the hospital. So the over flow gets pushed into other areas. Since my wife my wife has worked there for over 8 years there has not been a month go by that the hospital wasn't full at some point thru the month. Sometimes multiple times a month. She would have to stay late or get called in on weekends all the time. This has been going on since she has been employed there, over 8 years. Nothing has changed, just alot more fear from news and online articles. People die at the hospital every day, rarely does she say it was from covid. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
Update from me, still nothing. Feel as healthy as a horse. Don't think I got it, maybe I already had it back in the summer and have antibodys, don't know. Daughter is doing great and feels great, just a deep cough once and awhile. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
I have worked in health care since the early 90’s. Have there been bed shortages over the years? Yes. Has there been staffing shortages over the years? Yes. I have never experienced the magnitude of bed shortages and staffing shortages as I have experienced lately. In fact it blows my mind in which the confidence some of you speak that nothing is going on. The CEO of the hospital sent out an email to all the staff asking for help. They are paying a ridiculous amount of money to try and get people to work. The hospital is full, the ER is full, there is no beds, no place to transfer patients to and a bunch of overworked people trying to keep it all from falling apart… Maybe this is normal in some third world country but not here.
This is truth! In all my years in healthcare, over 40yrs, I have never seen anything even close to this! It's absolutely insane inside these hospitals. Unless you work in one you have no idea. Everyone, especially those of us involved in direct patient care, are at the point of complete exhaustion. I'm supposed to be retired but they call me 3-4 times a week to work extra shifts. I can't hardly say no because I know what they are facing and after all these years, these people are my family. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
I would say nothing has changed for health care workers in the positive (other than a handful of workers, traveling nurses for higher pay) in the last 2 years. In the negative overall picture a small percentage of nurses have quit due to vax mandates, another small percentage has retired early. That number is probably the least worrisome overall. A larger percentage took the shot but don't agree with mandates so a decent percentage of the workforce is unhappy, the fall out from all of these is significant. the boomer population is larger than anything we have ever seen and they live relatively longer due to advances in medicine. So we have an increasing number of people needing healthcare and we have pissed off and depleted the healthcare system.
Germ wont see this anyways, here is the truth .. the dems/vax nannies have to keep the fear and scare factor flowing (all for a cold) ... BOOSTER !! BOOSTER !! BOOSTER !! .... CDC Says COVID-19 Deaths and Hospitalizations Low Despite Omicron Surge COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations are "comparatively" low as the highly infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said on Wednesday even though 'cases' are high. "In a few short weeks omicron has rapidly increased across the country, and we expect will continue to circulate in the coming weeks. While cases have substantially increased from last week, hospitalizations and deaths remain comparatively low right now," she said, referring to overall cases. U.S. data suggests omicron will have a lower hospitalization-to-case ratio than the delta variant
Like I said above this just a outside observation from one hospital. My wife sees it different because she works in it every day. See only sees the sick people, so she thinks that is the entire world. If you think I'm talking about the entire country, then you miss read what I was saying. There is alot of fear in alot of place's. I see it with my own family. But I am just one man that lives in this world and has a opinion from my own observation. You can't compare what you see in your hospital and expect that to be the norm for the entire country. Remember healthy people don't go to the hospital, only the sick. Also a major local hospital closed its doors this week, completely shut down. If the hospital was completely over run with patients, then they should be making money hands over fist. But for some reason had to close when they are the busiest they have every been. Now the hospital my wife works at will take the majority of over flow of new patients because only being 30 minutes or so from them. Now it will seem that they are over run with sick patients, but really it's just lack of options. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
