Alaska Hospitals Increasingly Ration Care as COVID-19 Infections Soar

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“We didn’t sign up for this.”

. In Anchorage, patients often have to be transferred to Seattle, which is also dealing with overburdened health care facilities. Plus doctors in Alaska have to manage with one of the lowest rates of ICU beds as a proportion of its population than any other state besides Hawaii and Vermont.

“We have the most highly sophisticated medicine and advanced training in the world, and we’re having to ration care,” Javid Kamali, an intensive-care doctor at Providence Alaska Medical Center,Alaska has never had a statewide mask mandate and even as it suffers the worst COVID-19 infection rate in the country, many continue to resist any social distancing measures. Doctors who plead with residents to take the virus more seriously are often met with insults and derision.

 

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the willfully unvax have blood on their hands.

Getting tired of hearing about cancer and cardiac patients not being able to get care. If you are eligible for the Covid_19 vaccine and choose not to get it for anything other than a medical reason, you should not get bed priority over someone else.

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3rd Alaska hospital invokes crisis care mode in COVID spikeThree Alaska hospitals have now instituted crisis protocols that would allow them to ration care if needed as the state suffers from a surge of coronavirus infections. One person in every 84 in Alaska was diagnosed with COVID-19 from Sept. 22 to 29. What's the immunization rate.... Funny how they correlate with one another 🔥👍 Send the unvaccinated covidiots home to tough it out since they don't believe in science and they scorn doctors and vaccines. Send their asses home to tough it out with their unvaccinated families. They can write their will while they're home.
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