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least likely to survive home to dieA 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
(23,295 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)magicarpet
(14,157 posts)How about at least quarantining them, so the whole family does not become infected and spread death in the entire family ?
Mariana
(14,858 posts)magicarpet
(14,157 posts)... 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
(4,673 posts)How can I still shed tears when I ran out months ago?
Too much. God.
Mariana
(14,858 posts)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
(61,695 posts)being sent home now.
Care is being rationed. Yep, death panels.
DBoon
(22,374 posts)Dan Patrick says there are more important things than living and thats saving this country
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/21/texas-dan-patrick-economy-coronavirus/
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)With Dan Patrick his life is worthless. The fucking asshole.
elias7
(4,012 posts)But we just give up. How American...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,071 posts)But it never got as bad as Texas is now.
DSandra
(999 posts)They want this country to be like a banana republic.
Squinch
(50,957 posts)DSandra
(999 posts)lame54
(35,295 posts)Even Newt Gingrich warned us about this