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Austin hospital is leaving dead patients in their rooms
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-texas-hospitals-icu-capacity-reddit-post-texas-nurse/269-dde18c27-42c5-4c3e-ae46-01f193017a72'I've never seen SO many people so, so severely sick' | Austin nurse chronicles COVID-19 situation on Reddit
The Reddit poster, who claims to be a nurse at St. David's South, said that ICU beds were full and dead patients were taking up rooms because the morgue was full.
"Hey everyone! I posted this in response to a RationalAnarchy's daily COVID update, and a kind stranger suggested I made a new thread about it. I'm a nurse at St. David's south. ICU bed are full. They have now made IMC an additional ICU floor, and are now doubling patients in IMC. 2 vented patients in one room. The PACU had to hold 2 ICU patients overnight because there were no beds and the morgue was full. Dead patients were taking up rooms. There is talk about turning the PACU into an additional ICU unit. Med surg covid floors are continuing to expand, and St. David's has now put together a master list of all employees to be redeployed to other units and even other St. David's locations. We've been told that FEMA is sending med surg nurses to assist starting next week, so we will see. Not. Good. I have 4 years ICU experience, however am currently in the surgery department for about a year (burned out) I floated there last week to help out the ICU and for the first time in my career I was scared. Not to be alarmist, just to tell you how serious it is. I'm a pretty chill/laid back person and this translates to my nursing care. I've never seen SO many people so so severely sick and there not being much we can do for them. And this while style of nursing being different. IV pumps are outside the doors ran with extension tubing so you don't have to gown up constantly to go in the room to change IV bags and tend to alarms. They're not re using n95s for weeks, which is good. It's 1 a shift. But gowns they try to be very conscious of, if one person is gowned up and your patient needs something, you ask them to go in your room instead to save you wasting a gown on yourself. It's just a different world. Just stuff I never thought I would see. Anywho, sorry for the long post. Just wanted to share some insight for people that find it helpful. Stay safe everybody!"
According to Dr. DeVry Anderson, chief medical officer with St. David's South Austin Medical Center, the hospital has seen morgue space fill up and deceased COVID-19 patients have had to stay in their room while waiting for morgue space to clear. Anderson told KVUE they have not transitioned parts of the hospital to ICU-level, but they have moved ICU staff around to provide ICU-level care in the intermediate care (IMC) area for COVID-19 patients because the health status of those patients can deteriorate more quickly. However, Anderson said the hospital is open to making those changes to retrofit rooms if needed.
Anderson confirmed to KVUE that St. David's South Medical Center has "certainly had patients that have remained in their room until there was clinical morgue space for them to be housed within our own hospital." He added, "and on some occasions, we've had transfers happen in between our hospital system, understanding that some of our hospitals don't have morgue space at all."
"And so we prepared to hold them and to house them," Anderson said. "Certainly nothing like the dramatic scenes that we've seen in New York or in California or some of these other places on the news. But with regard to what I just said, that is absolutely happening."
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FUCK COVID-19 and all of those that deny that it is a fatal disease for which there is no cure, treatment nor vaccine!
& recommend!! 
-Laelth
Do I need the sarcasm 
thingee?
No national plan to fight this. 
Good Luck everyone.
....Alex Jones said so..and they are paid and paid well by George Soros!!!!
who report what they are seeing are really just actors. 
Abbott is a despicable excuse of a human being.
He really does not care abt. human beings.
If he is indeed Catholic, well shame on him. The pope's words abt. this Abbott has not heard. 
He's been on the hydroxychloroquine meme for the longest time ----> What have you got to lose? Go ahead, make my day! 
It is the fault of the Mexicans is what I being told. They socialize with members of their families and they have friends that come over too. Few have masks is what he claims. Uh huh.
I am at a loss as to how to respond.
I believe I will tell him to move if he is so unhappy!
What a batch of losers living in denial in TX is what I happen to think! 
Shameless
