El Paso nurse's horrifying story of hospital situation.

[Nevilledog]

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Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
⚠️MOTHER OF GOD—El Paso nurse’s horrifying story of hospital situation. There is a COVID room nicknamed “the pit” where no doctors enter, patients only get 3 CPR cycles—patients are sent there to just wait, code & die. None has survived “the pit”. #COVID19

[Doremus]

1. OMG. k&r

[Newest Reality]

2. No words.

[uppityperson]

3. Triaging

[Liberty Belle]

4. Duncan Hunter is set to start his prison sentence in an El Paso prison in January.

Wonder if prisoners with COVID wind up in "the pit."

What a horrifying scenario for patients and medical providers. Biden can't take the reins of power soon enough to end these horrors.

[OneBlueSky]

5. OMG . . . and this is just one hospital in one city . . .

multiply by several thousand across the country . . . that's where we're headed . . . if not already there . . .

Donald Trump should burn in hell for his neglect of this pandemic . . . which continues to this day . . . disgusting! . . .

[barbtries]

6. el paso.

where the people don't matter at all.

horrifying story.

[Boomer]

9. People matter

But wishing them well doesn't make it happen. This is the inevitable result of too many COVID-19 cases dumped on hospitals.

[barbtries]

15. not exactly.

this is the inevitable result of a government refusal to make resources available to deal with a pandemic.

[patphil]

7. Triage can seem quite cruel.

It's a decision no doctor wants to make. But reality is that resources are limited, and the effort must be concentrated on those who are expected to live.

I feel sorry for the families of those people, they deserve better for their loved ones.
This is all the Trump administration's fault. They programed so many millions of people to believe this was all fake, and masks were a libtard plot to take away their freedom.

The people in the "pit" will soon be free, but the price is terminal.

[rickyhall]

8. Send trump and his thugs to the pit.

[SunSeeker]

10. She said not a single doctor goes in the Covid Pit. But Trump had 12 helping him.

This is why Covid-19, like all illness, disparately kills the poor.

[Ilsa]

11. I'm guessing they are in multiple organ failure

when they are transferred.

They shouldn't call it "the pit" though. It makes it sound as if the patients are moved there and left to die with no palliative care. They should refer to it as "COVID-hospice", IMO.

[Warpy]

13. "The pit" is most likely the kindest thing that unit is called.

Try to force an exhausted health care worker to use polite terminology and I guarantee you will not like the result. Let the suits do that, it's one of the things they get paid for.

[Warpy]

12. This is what happens in an extreme, uncontrolled epidemic

Triage happens. Patients who are judged unlikely to survive are not given heroics or are given only perfunctory heroics like 3 CPR cycles. This is likely much kinder than performing all sorts of heroics on people who are unlikely to survive. Heroics hurt.

Fortunately, this is spreading much more slowly than the 1918 flu epidemnic did, so I doubt we'll see exhausted staff tagging and partially bagging patients who are minutes or hours from death the way they did then.

Triage will happen when hospitals are at capacity. While all states have overflow facilitiy plans on the books, decades of staff cutting have left them without sufficient trained people to staff them.

All of this is on the administration's neck. Their utter abdication of leadership and refusal to listen to experts did this to us.

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. Heartbreaking

It didn't have to be this way.