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Re: Re: Re: Idaho Expands Healthcare Rationing Statewide
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The problem for them is that the unvaccinated are less likely to survive. So once health care is rationed, it is not a good use of resources to treat people who are going to die anyway. Because it causes people who are likely to survive to be denied care, and then they die too. So it compounds casualties. So it is better treat the vaccinated who are likely to live, and to provide palliative care to the unvaccinated who are likely to die, because you lose fewer patients that way. It is just a smarter use of resources. These anti-vaxxers are putting themselves in the grave.
Not if you know folks that are vaccinated aren't kicking the bucket they just experience difficulties.
ROB
Re: Re: Re: Re: Idaho Expands Healthcare Rationing Statewide
Originally posted by snowdragon
Not if you know folks that are vaccinated aren't kicking the bucket they just experience difficulties.
Doctor's expect that, as that's what is being shown. But you still have to treat the patients all the same just in case they do go South health wise.
There's also the matter that the vaccinated are more likely in the hospital due to something not covid related, such as an accident or some other sickness.
ADA
Alaska's Largest Hospital Begins Rationing Care
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Idaho public health leaders on Thursday expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement after St. Luke's Health System, Idaho's largest hospital network, on Wednesday asked state health leaders to allow "crisis standards of care" because the increase in COVID-19 patients has exhausted the state's medical resources.Idaho is one of the least vaccinated U.S. states, with only about 40% of its residents fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Only Wyoming and West Virginia have lower vaccination rates. Crisis care standards mean that scarce resources like ICU beds will be allotted to the patients most likely to survive, i.e. the vaccinated. Other patients will be treated with less effective methods or, in dire cases, given pain relief and other palliative care.
The stark situation of COVID's impact on Alaska has affected the ability of the state's largest hospital to provide care for some patients. The Providence Alaska Medical Center's Medical Executive Committee said Wednesday that it must implement a "crisis standard of care" amid the worsening coronavirus situation.
"While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help," the hospital said.
Doctors at Providence believe the infection rate will continue to worsen over the next few weeks. "As we watch the case rates rise in our community, we anticipate an escalation in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the coming two to four weeks," Chief of Staff Kristen Solana Walkinshaw wrote.
SNO
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Idaho Expands Healthcare Rationing Statewide
Originally posted by Robtard
Doctor's expect that, as that's what is being shown. But you still have to treat the patients all the same just in case they do go South health wise.There's also the matter that the vaccinated are more likely in the hospital due to something not covid related, such as an accident or some other sickness.
Yeah but so what, treat them and treat everyone. Don't (not you) play games about wanting UHC and then think our current system needs to ration, if we had UHC we would have more rationing in our current structure.
ROB
Re: Alaska's Largest Hospital Begins Rationing Care
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The stark situation of COVID's impact on Alaska has affected the ability of the state's largest hospital to provide care for some patients. The Providence Alaska Medical Center's Medical Executive Committee said Wednesday that it must implement a "crisis standard of care" amid the worsening coronavirus situation."While we are doing our utmost, we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help," the hospital said.
Doctors at Providence believe the infection rate will continue to worsen over the next few weeks. "As we watch the case rates rise in our community, we anticipate an escalation in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the coming two to four weeks," Chief of Staff Kristen Solana Walkinshaw wrote.
Alaska's another Red state. It's like there's maybe some kind of pattern or something forming.
ROB
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Idaho Expands Healthcare Rationing Statewide
Originally posted by snowdragon
Yeah but so what, treat them and treat everyone. Don't (not you) play games about wanting UHC and then think our current system needs to ration, if we had UHC we would have more rationing in our current structure.
Your premise assumes the rationing is being done for shits and giggles; it's not, hospitals are running out of space and resources with the influx of covid patients so the rationing is out of necessity. So they need to use the dwindling resources at maximum effectiveness.
It's not like car crashes, work injuries, cancer and other sicknesses just stop because Covid cases rise in a state or district. Hospitals still have to deal with those, ontop of the Covid cases surging because people believe the nonsense about "murder vaccines" and whatnot.