A Texas hospital is so overrun with coronavirus cases that officials say it will send the patients least likely to survive home to die
Some officials said the Texas governor's decision to reopen the state was the reason for the surge.
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- Starr County Memorial Hospital is overrun with coronavirus cases, and hospitals elsewhere in Texas and in nearby states are also full, officials said.
- The county's health authority said the "situation is desperate" and "there is nowhere to put these patients."
- He said that for some patients "we believe they will be better taken care in the love of their own family and home rather than thousands of miles away dying alone."
- Starr County had successfully avoided a large outbreak in the pandemic's early days. Some officials said the Texas governor's decision to reopen the state was the reason for the surge.
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Starr County Memorial Hospital is overrun with coronavirus cases, and hospitals elsewhere in Texas and in nearby states are also full, officials said.
The county's health authority said the "situation is desperate" and "there is nowhere to put these patients."
In Wuhan, the Chinese people were able to build and totally outfit and populate a hospital on a vacant lot from scratch IN ONE WEEK, - so why can't Texans do that?
Starr County had successfully avoided a large outbreak in the pandemic's early days. Officials said the Texas governor's decision to reopen the state was the reason for the surge.
Latest update on the Trump Virus (Florida):
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Yup, we're doing great. /s
Those would be the ever cheering Democrats- who continue to coax on their Brown Shirt "protesters" which have absolutely nothing to do with the spread of the virus.
Obviously you need to be remediated in facts again Ronin.
You line about trying to blame the protests flies in the face of reported data.....
Repeating the trumpist lemming line trying to blame the protester for Covid infections doens't make it true either Ronin.
Why don't you simply look at the data and admit that the truth comes down to Trump loyalists opening too fast and ignoring CDC recommendations for the spread. Is that so hard?
Don't even bother to ask. The day the Trump loyalists actually ADMIT that their demi-god and his Republican locksteppers ever made a mistake will be the day Jesus will return to Earth.
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Seeing as how it's down on the Texas border I think they should kick the illegals out of the hospital to free up space for the citizens.
Spoken like a true and caring libertarian Dean.....
But..what percent of them are "illegals"?
Good question unfortunately in depth investigative journalism is rare these days and nonexistent at Business Insider.
Nice attempt at derailing. (Hey, it Ok if you don't want answer the question!)
When someone is losing an argument a common ploy is to "attack the messenger"
Why does my comment #5 have an IMPASSE (issuer) on it?
Hey what's going on there was no impasse when I made my comment?
I've also seen them "disappear" when they know they've lost.
Hello please remove this Impasse target violation, I didn't do anything wrong. They added Impasse to Paula's comment after I made my comment. How can the first comment in a thread be an Impasse? Who added Impasse to Paula's comment and why did I get a ticket?
Sounds like a glitch. Nothing to whine about.
It's the ''deep state'' they're out to get you Dean.
I'll notify Alex Jones right away.
I did NOT request comment to be removed...
Perrie and T,G fixed it. Apparently there was an error in the system.
Nah. It was a glitch LOL
Paula asked for the comment to be removed.
If they're sent home, how are their families to avoid infection? They're unlikely to be equipped to sanitize a sickroom to the level a hospital can, nor to be trained in how to provide care while protecting themselves.
True.
But cases are rising so rapidly...due to the blatant incompetence of govers and of course the Trumpster...what other options do they have?
Paula presented one above. Aid from medical facilities on military bases should be an option, if it's not already being pursued.
Actually that sounds like a really good idea.
Isn't it amazing that DHS can be used to pop up detention facilities all over Texas but when it comes to constructing "MASH" facilities, Trump is too busy sending his personal militia all over the country.
Convenient, eh?
Texas is just following NY's herd mentality. They just waited too long to start it. Once the most susceptible die off their numbers will flatten.
Maybe the left needs to be reminded which states are the biggest offenders for Covid 19 deaths?
Notice how far down the list you have to go to find Texas on deaths per 100,000 people.
The take a look at total deaths. Texas has about 6 and change times more deaths to accumulate before they reach NY.
Also stating reopening the economy is cause for the increase is asinine while ignoring the ever ongoing leftist Brown Shirt "protests". Just look at Michigan, where fascist Whitless has seized power for herself ignoring the law. Her draconian edicts have do nothing to slow a new outbreak in Michigan. Wonder what could have caused that? Michigan is much higher on the chart for deaths per 100,000 people, and total deaths; but the media is ignoring it completely- why is that again?
Meh
Well, as Ebeneezer Scrooge would have said - It's a good way to reduce the excess population.