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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,480 posts)
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 08:06 PM Dec 2021

Iowan dies after a 15-day wait for a medical center bed. His survivors blame the COVID surge

Dale Weeks’ family believes he was an indirect victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The retired Iowa school superintendent died in late November, nearly a month after he was diagnosed with sepsis, a dangerous, blood-borne infection unrelated to the coronavirus.

His daughters think he might have survived if he’d been admitted immediately to a large medical center, where he could have received advanced testing and prompt surgery.

But he stayed for 15 days at Newton’s relatively small hospital because the bigger facilities said they couldn’t spare a bed for him, his family says. Iowa’s short-staffed hospitals have been jammed for months with patients, including people severely sickened by COVID-19.

“It’s infuriating that people who are not vaccinated are clogging it up,” said Jenifer Owenson of Des Moines, who is one of Weeks’ four children.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iowan-dies-15-day-wait-120102806.html

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Iowan dies after a 15-day wait for a medical center bed. His survivors blame the COVID surge (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2021 OP
Owning the libs, r all they care about, besides voting for rethugs. nt childfreebychoice Dec 2021 #1
I feel for this man and his family. He wasn't able to get the best level of care and treatment, liberalla Dec 2021 #2
Sepsis is treatable when it is caught in time. It is not cancer. Ford_Prefect Dec 2021 #4
If you're unvaccinated and contract COVID...... SergeStorms Dec 2021 #3
The unvaxed should get lowest priority. Kablooie Dec 2021 #5
I agree! Rebl2 Dec 2021 #6
Maybe it's Rebl2 Dec 2021 #7
They don't need Doctors. Set them up as Hospice Tents. Unvaxxed ministers & bloggers can man them. Tommymac Dec 2021 #8
And if we're being truthful... raising2moredems Dec 2021 #9
Clogging it up keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #10

liberalla

(10,089 posts)
2. I feel for this man and his family. He wasn't able to get the best level of care and treatment,
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 10:10 PM
Dec 2021

and we'll never know for sure if the outcome would've been different.

Ford_Prefect

(8,216 posts)
4. Sepsis is treatable when it is caught in time. It is not cancer.
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 10:20 PM
Dec 2021

A number of public health experts have been saying since this all began that a dangerous side effect of the anti-vaccination crowd would be all the people who had to delay or forgo treatment due to the overload generated by unvaccinated COVID patients consuming medical services, resources, and monopolizing medical staff.

The number list of dead from COVID doesn't record those who died from collateral damage caused by COVID patients consuming medical resources. Nor does it account for the long term effects visited on those who have survived but have Long-COVID conditions to contend with, or on their families and communities. If and when they finally succumb they will not be listed among the casualties of Donald's Folly.

SergeStorms

(19,339 posts)
3. If you're unvaccinated and contract COVID......
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 10:13 PM
Dec 2021

stay the fuck home and squeeze a few more tubes of horse-dewormer up your ass.

This really pisses me off. What happened to the assholes who were kidnapping anti-vaxxers from hospitals? They're not working hard enough to save their brothers and sisters from the ravages of medical science, I'll tell you that.

Innocent people dying because of these brain dead shitheads who suddenly decide they want medical assistance is fucking stupid! Let the rotten bastards die with their stupid decisions.

Rebl2

(14,949 posts)
7. Maybe it's
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 10:48 PM
Dec 2021

time to set up Covid hospitals similar to TB hospitals from the past. All unvaccinated Covid-19 patients should be sent there. (Vaccinated patients can go to regular hospitals) The military might be able to set them up. Problem is finding doctors to run them. Maybe some trump supporting doctors.

Tommymac

(7,334 posts)
8. They don't need Doctors. Set them up as Hospice Tents. Unvaxxed ministers & bloggers can man them.
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 10:55 PM
Dec 2021

Stock them up with plenty of bleach and horse dewormer. Illuminate them with black UV lights.

And of coarse masks are forbidden inside too.

raising2moredems

(714 posts)
9. And if we're being truthful...
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 11:20 PM
Dec 2021

His death was due to COVID-19 - not that he had it, that he could not get the necessary care due to Covidiots. And yes, the 99% who are not vaccinated (very few cannot be vaccinated) should *not* be occupying a bed needed for the vaccinated.

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