Patient's wife says halls of Jacksonville hospital 'were full of patients'

[SheltieLover]

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/07/15/patients-wife-says-the-halls-were-full-of-patients/

Woman says her husband had to wait 26 hours in ER due to flood of COVID-19 patients

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Hospital officials said the overwhelming majority of the new COVID-19 patients they are seeing -- 98% -- are not vaccinated. Medical experts said the recent rise in cases is because of the Delta variant spreading throughout Northeast Florida.

The growing number of people sick with the virus is contributing to longer wait times at Northeast Florida hospitals, according to health officials.

A Jacksonville man’s visit to the Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside Hospital’s emergency room on Tuesday became a nightmare, according to his wife. She said he does not have COVID-19 but the flood of patients force him to wait 26 hours in the ER before he could be admitted.

More at link.

[LisaL]

1. More accurately, he didn't have covid when he arrived at the ER.

If you sit in the ER for 26 hours surrounded by covid patients, chances are you will pick something a little extra with your visit.

[mdelaguna]

29. Right?!

[LisaL]

42. Scary times.

If you need emergency treatment, you risk picking up covid.

[Budi]

2. Thanks for nothing DeSantisTrump

🤬

[SheltieLover]

3. Yup

Completely preventable!

[SoCalDavidS]

19. It's The Leadership Most Floridians Want

I'm sure they'll reward his efforts with re-election next year.

So Fucking SICK & TIRED of hearing how well Florida did in keeping their state open, while mine, California, had lockdowns and mask requirements.

[Budi]

20. Am right there with you.

I honestly can't even believe there are so many 8gnorant ppl in the country.

Really! Not a lick of sense to save themselves

[Wingus Dingus]

4. Give vaccinated/non-covid patients priority.

Why should the rest of us suffer?

[SheltieLover]

6. But how would they prove it?

They would just say they forgot their vax cards or show fake ones bought online.

[getagrip_already]

11. in FL, you can't ask.....

That's what has the cruise ship industry tied in knots. desatan make it illegal to even ask.

[SheltieLover]

23. Gawd

He needs to be locked up! 🤬

[Wingus Dingus]

14. Designate a covid clinic, a floor, a wing, etc. And when it's full, it's full.

Don't affect (or infect) the rest of the hospital system.

[Blue_true]

36. That has been done for at least one hospital in my area of Florida.

My oldest brother got sick from a non-Covid illness. He was taken to a non-Covid ICU. The regular ICU was totally blocked off, treating only Covid patients. To even get into a regular waiting room, a visitor had to go through a battery of procedures, I saw one guy who looked like a Trumper to me get turned away, a police officer was standing nearby if needed.

[Wingus Dingus]

39. Interesting. Didn't know they were already doing that.

[Blue_true]

40. It apparently is a way to keep the hospital functioning halfway normally.

I do feel for the Doctors and Nurses in the original ICU units (the hospital had a General adult ICU and an adult Cardiac ICU, the staff of both, I believe were then treating Covid patients). They must have gone through hell, and now they are having to treat a lot of people who willingly made a choice to be there by not getting vaccinated.

[Blues Heron]

22. I think there's a database

They should have an electronic record of it. Maybe Florida didn't do that, not sure.

[SheltieLover]

24. See #11

Illegal in FL to ask vax status.

[Blues Heron]

25. Hospitals can see your whole record - they have to know

Anyway Florida is definitely surging - 8,225 posted on the worldometer site https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

And they got sick days ago so it's spreading like wildfire amongst the unvaxxed

[SheltieLover]

26. One would think they would need to know

Covidiots!

[Marrah_Goodman]

43. That is not who we are

In our society we treat people in order of how sick they are, not in order of what we think of their life decisions.

[Maru Kitteh]

47. Not universally true. Organ transplant list is an excellent example.

We absolutely make value judgements about their life decisions when determining whether they are eligible for life-saving measures. Happens every day.

[roamer65]

5. All others should be seen before anti-vaxxer CoVID infectees.

[SheltieLover]

7. I agree, but pls read #6

[roamer65]

9. A little bit of questioning will weed them out.

Just gotta ask the right questions.

Given the Los Angeles County stats right now, 99 pct chance they are not vaccinated.

That a pretty safe bet for the doctor to make.

[SheltieLover]

13. Great idea!!!

I agree with you that responsible people should not have to wait for covidiots!

[roamer65]

16. ..

[Crunchy Frog]

34. Yes. They should see a hangnail before they see an unvaxxed-by-choice covid patient.

[getagrip_already]

8. doublespeak award winner......

“The number of hospitalized patients and ER wait times fluctuate frequently, so any individual data points are only a moment-in-time snapshot and do not accurately tell the full story. Like other local facilities have indicated, we have seen a notable increase in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in our facilities, which can lead to longer wait times.”

Sheesh. Can't he just say "yes".

[LisaL]

10. Or he could have simply said "Florida's covid cases are going through the roof."

NT

[SheltieLover]

15. Of course!

[Champp]

12. Republicans are spreading a freaking 21st Century Plague

[SheltieLover]

17. Yes & responsible people are suffering in many ways!

[gratuitous]

18. Reading the comments to the story (don't read the comments)

The anti-vaxers are out in force with their stubborn, stone-brained insistence that everything's fine and the real virus is the vaccine.

[SheltieLover]

21. How do people get that stupid?

[Blues Heron]

27. they go to dumbschool and get straight A's

They do their homework

[SheltieLover]

28. Teeee veee

[Chainfire]

30. Here in Florida, we are pretending that Covid is in the rear-view mirror

My wife and I went to one of the major hardware chain stores today and the only masks I saw was on a couple of employees. Knowing that better than half of the people in the crowded store were not vaccinated, everybody but the governor knows what is coming. Meantime DeSantis is selling campaign novelties making fun of the virus. DeSantis' plan is to ignore the virus away.

That is where, in the third largest state, we are. We need to change the state motto to the denial state, because we have more denial than sunshine.

[SheltieLover]

32. So sorry

Pretty much same where I am - only employees are masked.

Stay safe! 😷

[Blue_true]

35. I believe that it will be impossible to ignore the Coronavirus away.

The virus is getting more efficient with every big mutation. As long as it has tens of millions of Americans who are making sure that their bodies won’t put up a defense, the virus will continue to mutate and become more efficient at infecting people.

My one concern is that one or more mutations will have developed the capacity to defeat the protections that the current spate of vaccines provide.

[uponit7771]

31. This is alarming seeing its happening nearly same rate as last year with lower total because of half

... the population has been vaccinated.

Bottom line the rate of infection is just as high or higher just dealing with a smaller number if the young are excluded seeing their rate of hospitalization is lower.

That's a ... LOT ... of republicans

[SheltieLover]

33. Yes it is alarming!

Wait till the kids get crammed into schools without masks!

[Blue_true]

37. I have heard it referred to as a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

I was at the drug store earlier this week and saw a woman who looked like she should have been vaccinated months ago waiting for a vaccine shot. She was masked, but I suspect only because if she wasn’t, the pharmacist would have turned her ass away. So the current dire situation for the unvaccinated seems to finally be registering in some of their skulls.

[FakeNoose]

38. Some Repukes are quietly, secretly getting the shots

They're just telling everyone they know that it's a hoax. Trouble is, now their own families are getting sick. I look for this to happen more and more, so Faux Noise can shove it.

[Blue_true]

44. I just don't understand someone like Trump or Magats that secretly get vaccinated

but continue the lies. My bet is that the Fox News talking heads are all vaccinated, yet they openly encourage their viewer to buy into nonsensical conspiracy theories, with the end result being some of those people dying.

When I look at the world, I am really concerned that a new variant of SARS-COV-2 is going to develop in places like Indonesia or Brazil. Both countries have pretty large populations, plenty of poverty and healthcare systems that were over-taxed even before Covid, now they have the Delta variant establishing itself in that volatile mix. Also keep your eyes on what I believe is the Gamma variant (came out of South Africa and has the capacity to evade the immune system), there are a couple of places where the Delta variant and the Gamma variant are circulating among the same populations. Imagine the potential chaos if a variant forms that has characteristics of the two?

[LisaL]

41. Delta is a lot more infectious than original covid.

But it's not just republicans who are getting infected.

[appalachiablue]

45. Scary, serious. I read somewhere yesterday

that one of the JAX area hospitals was resorting to setting up tents for patients in a parking lot.

[SheltieLover]

46. Wow!

When the Army Corps of Engineers created an overflow hospital in Memphis, I read the plan was to keep it ready for overflow for either 2 or 4 years. I can now see why.

😷

[appalachiablue]

48. 2 days ago, Newsweek: JAX is thinking about

setting up tents; also other places that are becoming overwhelmed now.

Shades of 1918 Influenza pandemic, or more...

Very serious times! Stay well in Tenn.



https://www.newsweek.com/missouri-florida-hospitals-discussing-overflow-care-covid-patients-amid-increases-1610660

[SheltieLover]

49. Ty, You too!

Ty for link.

[dalton99a]

50. Helluva job