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CNN report from Texas hospital "Overwhelmed" (Original Post)
Swede
Jul 2020
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)1. Ventilators do more harm than good.
This segment is highly-recommended viewing.
-Laelth
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)3. Want to see Aug 1st, isolate July 4th. It was a very interesting video.
Swede
(33,310 posts)7. You die if they don't put you on one.
Fact
Laelth
(32,017 posts)8. Watch the video.
There are other ways to oxygenate blood.
-Laelth
keithbvadu2
(37,044 posts)2. How can that be? Is it fake news?
How can that be? Is it fake news?
Gov Abbot said they have plenty of hospital beds.
(Sarcasm thingie goes here.)
Upthevibe
(8,107 posts)4. Thank you for this post....n/t
BigDemVoter
(4,158 posts)5. I'm neither surprised nor shocked. . . .
Native
(5,943 posts)6. Having to decide which 3 out of 10 YOUNG PEOPLE you are going to save one day...listen to this:
One of the docs, "Yesterday was probably one of my worst days that I've ever had. I got 10 calls, all of whom, young people who otherwise would be excellent candidates to be able to put on ECMO...they, they're so sick that if they don't get put on, they don't get that support, they're probably gonna die... I had 3 beds... and just...and making that decision, being able to figure out who, who really is going to benefit...it..it is a level of decision making that I don't think a...a lot of us are prepared for."