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CNN report from Texas hospital "Overwhelmed" (Original Post) Swede Jul 2020 OP
Ventilators do more harm than good. Laelth Jul 2020 #1
Want to see Aug 1st, isolate July 4th. It was a very interesting video. LizBeth Jul 2020 #3
You die if they don't put you on one. Swede Jul 2020 #7
Watch the video. Laelth Jul 2020 #8
How can that be? Is it fake news? keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #2
Thank you for this post....n/t Upthevibe Jul 2020 #4
I'm neither surprised nor shocked. . . . BigDemVoter Jul 2020 #5
Having to decide which 3 out of 10 YOUNG PEOPLE you are going to save one day...listen to this: Native Jul 2020 #6

keithbvadu2

(37,044 posts)
2. How can that be? Is it fake news?
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 11:25 AM
Jul 2020

How can that be? Is it fake news?

Gov Abbot said they have plenty of hospital beds.

(Sarcasm thingie goes here.)

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:
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 03:25 PM
Jul 2020

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."

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