My employer just closed elective surgery again due to COVID. For people who don’t know surgery, that isn’t, like, plastic surgery- it is hernias and gall bladders and anything that is not immediately life threatening. I the chief medical officer is about to hold our local population down and just vaccinate them, and this is just based on public facing press releases.
Yeah, I've read about patients going to the ER with life-threatening (non-COVID) issues like a heart attack who end up dying because all the COVID patients (who are unvaccinated) are taking up all the beds. It makes me really glad that my FiL was able to be treated in the ER for his stroke.
I'm hoping that community spread starts to drop based on the numbers of kids who have gotten/are getting vaccinated. I've only read a couple of small studies that are specifically about kids and the spread of COVID when school is in person, but the data shows exactly what you would expect, based on how kids in school spread every other disease like wildfire: schools are a hotbed of disease transmission. Vaccinating the kids means we might have a fighting chance, if enough kids get vaccinated.
There are no beds and there is such a nursing “shortage”. Because we had the vaccine mandate and there are nurses who refused they lost there jobs. Others left because they could make so much money being traveling nurses because of the nursing shortage. And not to be cynical, but “elective” surgeries are the bread and butter of how a hospital makes money, so the decision to close them down means it is really serious.
Meanwhile, I am recruiting for a program for nursing training that relies on these surgeries for clinical hours…
Because we had the vaccine mandate and there are nurses who refused
When we were doing online research about long-term care facilities for my FiL, one of the metrics reported was percentage of staff that are vaccinated for COVID. And my reaction was pretty much "The FUCK? That percentage should be 100%, god damn it." Not just COVID, either; health care professionals involved in direct patient care should be required to be current on all the vaccines they're eligible to receive. If they don't like it, they might have picked the wrong career.
It is particularly mind-blowing that nurses that are working in hospitals would not be vaccinated. They have seen the Covid patients. Infuriating and beyond my comprehension.
I'll be having surgery before the end of year, but I feel comfortable enough now that I am boosted.
I am officially a New Yorker again
Congratulations!
the chief medical officer is about to hold our local population down and just vaccinate them, and this is just based on public facing press releases.
Blow darts. Or alibis. I would be down for either.
Onerous medical stuff completed. I review the results with my doctor on Monday.
I'm going to boast a little. There was a small boy, perhaps three years old, in the reception area with his father and grandmother. They were waiting for the grandmother to be called back for some test or procedure. The boy was bored and restless. Even his father's phone couldn't hold his attention. I went and got a business card from the supply at the intake nurse's station and folded a jumping frog to give to the boy. It went over very well. I think I made his day.
That's lovely, dcp! I am sure you made the father's day too!
As that’s adorns and kind, dcp
Aw, well done, dcp!
Hope DH continues to be okay & dealing with the truck not too onerous, Laura!
but I made it there and I am proud of myself!
And we are proud of you! The journey of a thousand miles and all that!
Epic I am in La Jolla!
Nice! I am out in the burbs. Your views are substantially better! And with new, improved internet, yay! (edit: just verified my cell # is in my profile in case you want to reach out while you're here)
Congrats, Trudy! And though the maple syrup/tea thing would never have occurred to me, now that you say it, it sounds good.
Not commenting on the anti-vaxxers - no time for a rage blackout this afternoon.
Edit (again); check out that awesome slumbernut!
