#COVID-19 hospitals

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec's emergency rooms are once again surging over capacity. As the province gets ready to usher in the new year, many Quebecers are coming down with respiratory viruses and heading to the hospital. The numbers have been steadily climbing above 100 per cent every day since Dec. 27, following a four-day period when average occupancy rates dropped below 100 per cent for the first time since Nov. 12. As of Sunday morning, the average stretcher occupancy rate in Montreal was 125 per cent, according to Index Santé. The Royal Victoria Hospital was at 221 per cent, the Montreal General Hospital at 184 per cent and Lasalle Hospital at 180 per cent.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #hospitals #healthcare #emergency room #covid 19 #flu season #health and wellness

[heardatmedschool]

“If you open that closet, you’ll probably find my pandemic sleeping bag, alongside toads, snakes and forgotten covid variants.”

The forgotten hospital closet.

#medicine #med school #medblr #hospital #nursing #pandemic #covid 19 #healthcare

[theculturedmarxist]

#covid 19 #covid #contact tracing #hospitals #healthcare

[axiolotl]

crazy how every single time one of my coworkers goes on a vacation, they end up sick for 1-2 weeks afterwards. consistently. its almost like....i don't know....... there's still a highly contagious airborne disease still around?? 🤨🤨🤨 how weird!

#i know for a fact none of these people mask. and also #and they dont mask when they come back even tho we're a hospital w specific rules for masking/returning to work if anyone shows flu #like symptoms #very interesting. #ellis.txt #covid19 #covid-19

[cy-cyborg]

So... I'm OK, but I had to go to emergency a few nights ago due to covid complications. What complications, you ask? Not the usual ones, but for the sake of my dignity, I'll just show you the text I sent my mum from the waiting room:

[ID: a text conversation between my mother and me. My first message, sent at 3:58am, reads "I had to go to emergency because I sneezed so hard I broke my ass". Her reply, sent at 5:51am, says "R U Ok". I answer with "Yeah, still in emergency though", followed by her asking "How do you break your ass" /end ID]

So, unless you want to go to the hospital at 3am to get your ass checked for internal damage, Im begging you to wear a mask.

#my mum called me when I didn't answer and was trying to be nice while was trying her best not to loose it. #telling millennials and Gen Z that something will kill you isnt detering people so maybe threat of embarrassing hospital visits will lol #covid 19 #covid #disability #disabled

[macgyvermedical]

They officially discontinued the monovalent mRNA COVID vaccines today. I was working one of the first clinics in my county (possibly THE first, but I’m not 100% sure on that) to have them back in 12/2020 and here I am working a COVID clinic the last day they’re available.

What an era.

#covid 19 #hospital life

[odinsblog]

FLORIDA’S “HEALTH FREEDOM” ACTIVISTS - A Florida hospital has become the latest front for political activists eager to challenge protocols for treating COVID.

While most of the 6,000 hospitals in the United States are privately-run, about 200 are controlled by publicly-elected board members, according to Larry Gage, former president of the National Association of Public Hospitals. Typically, those elections usually have nothing to do with national politics or culture war issues.

But with seats opening on the Sarasota Memorial Hospital's board earlier this year, a group of political activists opposed to COVID protocols saw an opportunity. Now, the hospital has three new board members who question the effectiveness of vaccines and spread medical misinformation. While they're a minority on the nine-person board, their victory has thrown the hospital board's typically quiet meetings into chaos.

More than 200 people showed up to the new members' first meeting in late November, the largest turnout that chairman Tramm Hudson had ever seen in his eight years on the board.

Micheila Matthew and more than a dozen self-described "health freedom activists" demanded an investigation into the hospital's management during the worst of the pandemic. Some had lost loved ones during the peak of the pandemic and blamed the hospital. Others blasted the hospital's leadership for ignoring non-mainstream COVID treatments such as ivermectin, which studies have established do not effectively treat COVID.

"We want answers," Matthew said. "There will be no amnesty. You failed."

While similar public clashes have happened elsewhere, the "health freedom" movement is especially strong in Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis was one of first state leaders to roll back mask and social distancing guidelines in 2020. Lately, he's used rhetoric that's increasingly hostile to vaccines.

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#politics #republicans #antivaxxers #covidiots #health freedom activists #plague rats #ron desantis #sarasota #sarasota memorial hospital #covid-19 #coronavirus #the gop is a death cult #covid misinformation #covid disinformation

[anti-ao3]

actually drugstores should be obligated to have a hand sanitizer in the entrance. and while i'm at it, masks should be free. fuck capitalism.

#i've been fueled by hatred lately as you can see #lotus.txt #covid-19 #<- not necessarily but considering covid cases are rising again #it's unbelievable that you have to pay a lot of money to get masks and/or hand sanitizers #although hospitals still have those things masks aren't rlly required anymore iirc #(at least where i live idk about the u.s.)

[daisydoctor13]

My immune system held out for over 2 and a half years but it has finally succumbed

#and it was definitely from my grandparents who didnt want to test so they didnt miss their hospital #rather than work because a) i had 6 days off before monday and b) all our patients have flu not covid #covid 19 #holiday not hospital

[head-post]

Why UK doctors strike and stress

Junior doctors working in England’s National Health Service started a six-day strike over wages on Wednesday, a desperate move in a demoralised NHS suffering from huge workloads, staff shortages and lack of investment, according to Politico.

Healthcare workers are demanding pay rises since 2022 to keep up with inflation, which is also part of a wider sense of dissatisfaction among staff who feel overworked and undervalued, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic.

UK healthcare faces challenges on all fronts. Firstly, there are fewer doctors per capita than any other country in Europe. Secondly, healthcare providers and think tanks have systematically reported staff shortages and expressed alarm over the impact on patient care and workforce.

Moreover, underinvestment led to the NHS being ill-prepared for emergencies and staggered in the aftermath of the pandemic. This had a negative impact on staff morale.

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#world news #world politics #news #europe #uk politics #uk news #uk government #england #united kingdom #great britain #strikes #rally #covid 19 #covid pandemic #pandemic #coronavirus #hospitals #health care #public health #medical care

[disasterhimbo]

Unfollow me if you’re unwilling to wear a mask to protect yourselves and others

#both of my still-living grandpas went to the hospital shortly after catching covid for the second time #the second one was yesterday and there aren’t any hospital beds for him because covid is putting so many people in the hospital #this is not normal #this is not what learning to live with covid should look like #covid-19 #sars-cov-2 #pandemic #my post #personal #original post #everyone keeps saying ‘oh well it doesn’t hospitalize or kill young healthy people’ #1. yes it fucking does #2. elderly and disabled people’s lives matter and we should be protecting them #3. everyone ignores the long-term effects #long covid is super common and even if you don’t have symptoms every day it can cause heart attacks and weaken your immune system #and cause brain damage and all sorts of horrible shit #do not get covid #do not spread covid #the vaccine does not prevent transmission so it’s pretty useless #wear a fucking mask 🔪

[eirianerisdar]

OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT I’M DONE

A family with variant covid is refusing to leave the paediatrics ward despite their children now being asymptomatic

Their reason is that quarantine at government centres wouldn’t allow their two year old to have takeout every meal whereas in the hospital their family members can drop off takeout at the ward entrance three times a day

And they refuse to make their two year old eat the catered meals given by government centres or by the hospital

When we explained they were in effect wasting hospital resources and we needed the isolation room for other patients they threatened to sue and said they would contact their home consulate (they’re dual nationality)

At this point I am just waiting for the senior ward manager to let the other shoe drop and force them out for hospital operational needs

#covid 19 #covid #medicine #paediatrics #residency #this is a public hospital and paediatrics is out of isolation rooms already #this isn’t some fancy private hospital and hotel you can stay longer if you pay #they’re literally wasting hospital resources and taxpayer money #medical happenings

[suncaptor]

no there really was something about riding back from the volta region to accra in africa and like having hundreds of white-winged flying bugs flocking to the headlights of the van and shedding wings across the ground in the flickering dark and reflective rain. by the time we got back to accra the rain had lifted and there's a part up the hill where you can see the city sitting on rocks in front of you and how it stretches. it was beautiful.

#incoherents #i dont think i could feel a thing then or now i am always so scared. i spent that night. it was easter. at the hospital. #i landed badly paragliding and was hypothermic in high high heat. i was my wound cleaned i was scared I'd die #for no reason. i was having ocd issues. kept imagine getting infected. it was kind of nonsense #but i couldn't get any creams and i had to shower #(had to shower so methodically. in sevens. make sure no part of me could have covid covid covid) #i must have seemed insane. i didnt eat anything but a tiny bit of jollof and my friend helped me get some plantain chips but the night #market was nearly closed #its funny. how me now me then me at 19 how everything is a different lense #I'm through so much glass #i can't imagine being who i was a year ago I'm all hollowed out I'm dead I'm not real #there's a perspective shift. there's things if only i could not drown and be real that i could make so much out of #i want to exist in this world so badly. i want to feel it. i want to be real. but there's too much horror and grief and it consumes me #the beat of their wings was so empty whit #the best psychiatrist i ever had was the boss of the guy i saw that week cause i was scaring myself. but who referred me to him got me so #scared bc he thought i was manic and i freaked out and started crying and asked everyone including half a dozen professionals #if they thought i was because i was scared I'd end up paralysed (again. ocd.) #they took me to the hospital because they were afraid #god i was so much better then yet #and the surgeon guy was not appropriate enough but he liked me. he knew i wasn't a risk. it was all so useless. but you know. #another person to say I'm not manic. god i was so neurotic. well. #okay I'm rambling. it's just. nothing feels real nothing ever feels real #i want to exist have i really not existed this whole time? #i feel like there's so much i missed i grieve everything but not as much as i. #i got better on this med but maybe it wasnt the med. i was . talking to her more again wrapped up #and #hhhhh #nothing is real. i love her

[lurkingleighbee]

#blue lives scatter #only blue lives matter #cops #nurses #covid-19 #essential workers #hospital #pre-vaccine times

[deadpanwalking]

I'm really sorry to hear about your MIL, she sounds like an incredible person

You bet your ass she was. She passed away early this morning. We're just trying to muddle through until the service in a few days—she'd quietly locked down most of the funeral arrangements back when she first got diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

#AND kept them up to date #she edited her obituary when one of her grandkids changed their name earlier this year #she was diagnosed about 10 years ago and responded well to treatment #but it just kept coming back #she'd been in and out of the hospital and this was the 2nd time in a year she had covid-19 pneumonia #so it goes #i guess #anonymous #assbox

[humandisastersquad]

able bodied people are pathetic wusses "wahhh i dont like wearing masks they make me feel so claustrophobic" im asthmatic and have sensory issues and i can wear a tight fitting n95 mask for several hours straight bc the alternative is catching spreading a virus that has killed millions of people and disabled millions more. suck it up and mask up dickhead

#covid 19 #so tired of the staff at the hospital im currently doing placement at not masking properly #yall are HEALTHCARE WORKERS in a HOSPITAL #who regularly come into contact with both patients who have covid and patients who can't survive catching covid #and YET they continue to just wear loosely fitting surgical masks and regularly unmask to have a chat #and are constantly complaining about having to wear them #like for the love of god shut the fuck up and wear the damn mask #i have. even though it gives me headaches and i end up dehydrated bc i cant take it off to drink water #and i absolutely cannot afford to play russian roulette with my health by catching covid #aRGH im just. so angry #holy personal post batman