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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCOVID-19 patients will be 'sent home to die' if deemed too sick, Texas county says
This article is just minutes too old for LBN. I found it thanks to a tweet from MSNBC's Chris Jansing this morning:
Link to tweet
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article244443257.html
Starr County once went about three weeks without a COVID-19 case at the beginning of the pandemic. It banned large gatherings, tested hundreds of residents a day, issued stay-at-home orders and required face masks many of the same mandates now commonplace across the U.S. The poor and mostly Latino county on the Mexico border was containing COVID-19.
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But after Gov. Greg Abbott issued orders for the reopening of the state, overriding local control and decision-making, COVID-19 cases surged.
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The county has been forced to form what is being compared to a so-called death panel. A county health board which governs Starr Memorial is set to authorize critical care guidelines Thursday that will help medical workers determine ways to allocate scarce medical resources on patients with the best chance to survive.
A committee will deem which COVID-19 patients are likely to die and send them home with family, Jose Vasquez, the county health authority, said during a news conference Tuesday.
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But after Gov. Greg Abbott issued orders for the reopening of the state, overriding local control and decision-making, COVID-19 cases surged.
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The county has been forced to form what is being compared to a so-called death panel. A county health board which governs Starr Memorial is set to authorize critical care guidelines Thursday that will help medical workers determine ways to allocate scarce medical resources on patients with the best chance to survive.
A committee will deem which COVID-19 patients are likely to die and send them home with family, Jose Vasquez, the county health authority, said during a news conference Tuesday.
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COVID-19 patients will be 'sent home to die' if deemed too sick, Texas county says (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jul 2020
OP
Add in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes along with the large proportion of residents that do
TexasTowelie
Jul 2020
#1
Tragic, and practically inevitable, since they won't have anything close to medical PPE.
highplainsdem
Jul 2020
#5
TexasTowelie
(112,453 posts)1. Add in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes along with the large proportion of residents that do
not have health insurance and it leads to negative outcomes for the patients.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)2. And than the family will be infected as well, if it hasn't been already.
Lovely.
highplainsdem
(49,041 posts)5. Tragic, and practically inevitable, since they won't have anything close to medical PPE.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)3. So it was a self fulfulling prophecy, Republican's death panels.
mucifer
(23,572 posts)4. For something that was for the most part preventable