| > Nurses in Boston have been striking for almost a year I'm surprised more haven't been. Nurses are being outright abused, but that doesn't change the fact that nurses are being asked to travel great distances to help with staffing issues. The whole situation in nursing is a huge mess right now for a lot of reasons. > I've seen one instance of calling in the national guard recently you should be paying more attention to the news, or possibility looking critically at where you're getting your news from since it's not serving you very well. I don't know which one you heard about but your list should include Washington, Georgia, Ohio, Oregon, Maine, New York, and New Hampshire. New Mexico has also called in the national guard because of omicron, but they want troops acting as substitute teachers. > and ventilators are no longer the preferred treatment protocol in every case That doesn't mean they aren't being used by covid patients or that hospitals aren't still struggling with a shortage of them. see here for example: https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article257168037... > I haven't seen a single effort to literally build more hospital wings with ICU beds. Have you? Yes I have. Most hospitals don't want to add entire new wings full of beds because covid isn't going to be like this forever, but in just the last few months here are some examples of hospitals doing wherever they can to add capacity:
https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-nursing-homes-covid-... https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2775 https://www.wpr.org/mayo-clinic-puts-hospital-beds-ambulance... https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article257323822.htm... This is on top of all the beds and overflow centers hospitals have been adding over the last two years. It's not that every hospital is waiting until they have people dying outside their doors to start adding beds either. One of the best US hospitals for heart surgeries is just outside of Chicago and they've renovated parts of their old partially demolished hospital building to keep on standby so they can handle covid cases in case they get overwhelmed like so many others have. It's a pretty smart way to gain some extra ICU space while keeping costs down. Your facts are just very wrong or very incomplete. I recommend looking into this stuff a bit more using new sources. |