He died after waiting 15 days for a hospital bed. His family blames unvaccinated

[Texacon]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216196373

Nevilledog
He died after waiting 15 days for a hospital bed. His family blames unvaccinated covid-19 patients.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/28/iowa-dale-weeks-hospitals-covid-sepsis/

No paywall
https://archive.fo/7jr0h

Throughout his life, Dale Weeks was characterized by family and friends in Iowa as “a good neighbor,” someone who would do anything for anyone. So when he was diagnosed with sepsis last month, the retired schools superintendent and his family hoped he would get immediate care and be okay to reunite with them for the holidays.

But at a time when unvaccinated covid-19 patients have again overwhelmed hospitals because of the fast-spreading omicron variant, finding an available bed at a large medical center able to give him the treatment he needed proved to be difficult. Weeks was being treated at a small, rural hospital. He had waited 15 days to be transferred to a larger hospital with better treatment options, because facilities throughout Iowa did not have an open bed for him as a result of the latest hospital surge of unvaccinated patients, his children told The Washington Post.

“It was terribly frustrating being told, ‘There’s not a bed yet,’ ” Jenifer Owenson, one of his four children, said Tuesday. “All of us were talking multiple times a day, ‘Why can’t we get him a bed?’ There was this logjam to get him in anywhere.”

When Weeks was finally able to have surgery more than two weeks later, his condition from sepsis had worsened. Weeks died Nov. 28 of complications after surgery. He was 78.

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So here’s my question for the DUmmies, and I honestly don’t know the answer. I think I do, but haven’t looked it up.

How many field hospitals has Biden prepared and set up?  How many mercy ships has he deployed?

If the answers to those questions are none and none, what is HIS problem?!  We knew this variant was coming for at least 4 months and he’s done nothing?

Can you admit Trump did a better job of preparing?

KC

[franksolich]

Well, one wonders who's actually to blame for the problem, where it exists.

And the Washington Post isn't telling.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/12/25/the-chickens-of-the-collective-psychosis-of-covid-hysteria-come-home-to-roost-n496830

The Chickens of the Collective Psychosis of COVID Hysteria Come Home to Roost

News out of Vermont paints a bleak picture of just how harmful the collective psychosis of COVID hysteria is, a phenomenon that seems isolated to heavily Democrat areas.

For years, fear-mongering from the government and national media has pushed people to detach themselves from reality when it comes to assessing risk profiles regarding the coronavirus. That’s now playing out in the form of completely asymptomatic individuals rushing to jam up emergency rooms in Vermont. Though, as we’ll see, this is hardly limited to the Green Mountain State.....

.....This stuff needs to stop, and it’s not going to stop until Democrats from the president on down start telling the truth about the risks of COVID for different demographics. Take another look at that picture in the Post’s article. Many of those people look to be under 50, and none of them appear to be suffering from a debilitating illness. Yet, they are acting as if someone is handing out solid gold bars. It’s insanity and completely unnecessary.

Lastly, given the apparent mildness of Omicron, which is quickly becoming the dominant variant in the United States, rushing to get tested while presenting no symptoms becomes an even dumber move. Yet, the White House is now going to send out tests direct to households anyway. What’s that going to do to emergency rooms, when a rush of “positive” tests starts happening and people freak out?

All of this was and is preventable, but it would require having people with actual leadership skills at the top instead of a bunch of cowards mostly concerned with covering their own backsides. Thus, the hysteria will continue. It’s too important to the left’s cause.

[Texacon]

I couldn’t agree more. My wife got a cold last week. She didn’t go get tested, in our house colds are still allowed without being an emergency. When I got home on the weekend I tried staying away from her, but despite my efforts I went to work Monday with a cold. I’m still fighting it and no, I haven’t rushed out to get a test. I have a sore throat, sinus congestion, and a headache. It happens.

I’m hoping to be over this by the end of this weekend because I’m on vacation this coming week and don’t want to be sick on vacation.

This hysteria the liberals have is confusing to me and I lost a son in law in September.

KC

[SVPete]

Ummmmmmm ... using this HHS webpage, https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization , the inpatient bed utilization rate for Iowa is 72.32%, with just 10.18% used for Covid patients (12/30/2021 update). Between HHS and the WashPost, I'd believe HHS and guess that the WashPost got played Covid Panictivists. Or maybe the WashPost simply lied. And, unsurprisingly, DUpipo lapped up somebody's lie.

[67 Rover]

I couldn’t agree more. My wife got a cold last week. She didn’t go get tested, in our house colds are still allowed without being an emergency. When I got home on the weekend I tried staying away from her, but despite my efforts I went to work Monday with a cold. I’m still fighting it and no, I haven’t rushed out to get a test. I have a sore throat, sinus congestion, and a headache. It happens.

I’m hoping to be over this by the end of this weekend because I’m on vacation this coming week and don’t want to be sick on vacation.

This hysteria the liberals have is confusing to me and I lost a son in law in September.

KC

Have you looked into anyone's eyes and begged for the vaccine yet only to be softly told NO? 

[Texacon]

Have you looked into anyone's eyes and begged for the vaccine yet only to be softly told NO? 

LOL

Nope, and while I realize this disease is very serious for certain people, that does not mean the rest of the world should panic.

I also do not cheer anyone dying of this disease or any other. Watching what the liberals are doing makes me ill. I will tell you this, IF it came to a civil war, they sure do make it easy to do what a person would have to to win.

KC

[FlaGator]

I live in Florida and I am having elective surgery on Jan 10th. Even though it is considered major surgery it is elective at this point. I had no problem getting it scheduled and I received no blowback even though I am unvaccinated. I'll have the procedure, spend a week in the hospital, and then six weeks recovering at home. This is how things are done in Florida and how things should be done everywhere else. However, that doesn't fit the blue narrative so the blue meanies must put everyone who comes into the hospital into a bed regardless of the need and blame them for filling up the hospital.

[SVPete]

I live in Florida and I am having elective surgery on Jan 10th. Even though it is considered major surgery it is elective at this point. I had no problem getting it scheduled and I received no blowback even though I am unvaccinated. I'll have the procedure, spend a week in the hospital, and then six weeks recovering at home. This is how things are done in Florida and how things should be done everywhere else. However, that doesn't fit the blue narrative so the blue meanies must put everyone who comes into the hospital into a bed regardless of the need and blame them for filling up the hospital.

Using the HHS webpage I linked above, I found that in-patient hospital bed utilization in Covid-Infested Florida is at 78.02%, with Covid patients occupying 8.69% of the available in-patient beds. Iowa utilization has leaped up a whole .3%!

Scarcasm aside, the WashPost lied to feed panic and to sell papers and bait for clicks.

[jukin]

Yet somehow, deaths are 1/3 of what they were in September of 2021 (CDC data). Since this is the Bezos' blog and is a major covid fear porn producer and democrat/Biden fluffer Ima callin' bullshit on this piece of propaganda. Also from the CDC data the vaccinated are a higher percentage of covid cases than the pure bloods.