A Texas hospital is so overrun with coronavirus cases that officials say it will send the patients

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

least likely to survive home to die

A hospital in Starr County, Texas, is so overrun with coronavirus cases that officials there said it would choose which patients to use its resources on and send those most likely to die back home to their families.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Dr. Jose Vasquez — the health authority for Starr County — said the county was creating guidelines to help health workers decide how to use resources on patients with the best chance of survival.

Vasquez added that a committee would decide which patients were most likely to die at Starr County Memorial Hospital — the only hospital in the county — and would send them home.

"The situation is desperate," he said Tuesday. "We cannot continue functioning in the Starr County Memorial Hospital nor in our county in the way that things are going. The numbers are staggering."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-hospital-overrun-coronavirus-cases-124224673.html

Well their Lt. Governor said there are more important things than living.

[louis-t]

1. Death panels.

[Iliyah]

2. Won't that spread the virus more?

[magicarpet]

3. HOME ?

How about at least quarantining them, so the whole family does not become infected and spread death in the entire family ?

[Mariana]

4. Quarantine them where? nt.

[magicarpet]

10. Maybe the State of Texas or the federal gov could set up large military tents,...

... in areas where ICU wards are at 100% occupancy.

House the Covid patients there and provide limited medical care until an ICU slot opens or they meet their demise.

Sending sick Covid patients home to their families is an invitation to cause Covid-19 to explode in these families.

A temporary large military tent with sleeping cots can be set up rapidly. Maybe set these tents up in the parking lots of movie theaters that can not open until the Covid pandemic is over.

What about civic center, convention centers, local armory buildings. Maybe locate a cruse ship as a floating hospital until this crisis is over.

Sending infected Covid patients back home to die is a death wish for the entire family.

[moonscape]

11. The fed govt won't do anything for (mostly) brown folks :(

How can I still shed tears when I ran out months ago?

Too much. God.

[Mariana]

12. And where are the personnel to care for the people going to come from?

You can't just toss a bunch of dying people into a building and leave them there. They need food, hydration, medications, and hygiene. Someone has to provide that for them. Those people will be at risk of infection, too.

There are NO good options here. Every choice is bad.

[Ilsa]

13. That will take too long for the patients

being sent home now.

Care is being rationed. Yep, death panels.

[DBoon]

5. The Texas economy requires the sacrifice of human lives

Dan Patrick says “there are more important things than living and that’s saving this country”

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/21/texas-dan-patrick-economy-coronavirus/

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. Why don't we start

With Dan Patrick his life is worthless. The fucking asshole.

[elias7]

7. China built a makeshift hospital in Wuhan. Two, in fact.

But we just give up. How American...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. When it initially hit in Washington State we converted two sports arenas into facilities

But it never got as bad as Texas is now.

[DSandra]

15. They want to thin the herd and impoverish the lower classes...

They want this country to be like a banana republic.

[Squinch]

9. The LG said that when it was New Yorkers dying. I wonder if it's different now.

[DSandra]

14. And someone tell me the Republicans are NOT monsters...

[lame54]

16. Italy...

Even Newt Gingrich warned us about this