Caitlyn Houston kisses her seven-week-old daughter, Parker, as they wait in the ER for a hospital bed to open up on Dec. 7 at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan."There's so many kids in here that they have to take the ones that are really bad," Houston said.Caitlyn Houston kisses her seven-week-old daughter, Parker, as they wait in the ER for a hospital bed to open up on Dec.
Within hours of leaving the pediatrician though, Santi"was so much worse," she says."His fever was way too high. I couldn't get it down." She took him to the ER, where doctors told her Santi had RSV, and that his oxygen saturation levels were dangerously low. "I hate seeing him like this," Botello says, his hands in his sweatshirt pocket, his own eyes glued to his son. Eventually, Santi's heavy lids close, and he slips into a fitful sleep in the hospital crib. His mom rubs his back, shushing him softly.
At the Children's Hospital of Michigan in suburban Detroit, there's only enough staff to cover about 60% of the beds, according to chief medical officer Dr. Rudy Valentini. With 40% of beds unavailable, children who need to be admitted have to wait in the ER until a bed opens up.
They must not be troubled much about it, it seems to have happen a lot over the last few years and yet they haven’t made plans or expanded care.
Dolla dolla bill, y'all.
We, the disabled and chronically ill, told you so. We told you this would happen if we unmasked and dropped other protections. Now children are dying. So let's go back to masks and mitigation. NOW.
Maybe because when you tell people they will die if they get the flu they then will go into the ER with it. Back in the day we stayed at home and had soup until we felt better. Only went in if fever was above something like 103 or 104. So it’s your fault NPR. Nice work.
Who knew isolation children from society for 2 years would weaken their immune systems
Imagine before these heros were fired for not taking the shot.
Yes. It takes a lot of expertise and resources to care for critically ill children. MottChildren ChildrensDMC devoschildrens BeaumontHealth
My grandnephew is six weeks old and was released yesterday after having covid. Please stay safe and help protect these babies any way you can.
The lack of hospitals caring for its population, has been a nightmare for this country for a long long time, you would think they would have address it, especially now after covid, but no just keep trucking on with our blinders on.
holy fuck that's bad
Damn,, is Biden some kind of bad karma or what...? Has anything gone right.
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