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Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

At Their Breaking Point, Nurses Plead With Public in COVID Videos

Author:     Jennifer Henderson
Source:     MedPageToday
Publication Date:     December 20, 2021
Link: At Their Breaking Point, Nurses Plead With Public in COVID Videos
Stephan:   America's illness profit system under the best of conditions has all kinds of flaws, but Covid has stressed it in ways no one could imagine, and it is on the verge of collapse. What would that look like? Imagine that you, unvaccinated because you are part of MAGAt world, contract Covid and after days in your bed your wife or your husband, in the middle of the night frightened by your condition takes you to the hospital, and you are turned away. You return home and the next day you die. Is such a thing possible in America. I suggest to you that in the Trumpist states it is not only possible but may be closer than you can imagine.

Healthcare workers nationwide are reporting some of the worst COVID-19 surges yet, and nurses are documenting their strain in candid video messages, imploring the public for its assistance in fighting the pandemic.

In New Hampshire, nurses said they don’t have much left to give. In Nebraska, a new nurse lamented losing seven COVID patients in just a matter of days. And in Ohio, hospital leaders and frontline workers simply cry “Help.”

“It’s probably our worst surge that we’ve seen so far,” said Hilary Hawkins, BSN, MBA, RN, nurse manager of the emergency department at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in a YouTube video posted last week by the health system. She added “we’re also seeing a lot of people who are downright upset and tired, and taking it out on staff. … I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.”

The same healthcare workers who were “hailed as heroes just under 2 years ago” are now “nearing the brink of exhaustion,” Dartmouth-Hitchcock said in a press release. “This is directly […]

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