Covid isn't a high kill rate virus that we're going to ever eradicate, and it's not a common cold hyped up for 5g nanobot vaccine conspiracy.
If you read actual cdc papers regularly and watch other countries actions and numbers it's obvious. Everything we've done has only slowed the spread. But at what cost? What did we gain? Everyone will still get Covid. It'll kill at risk peope, and less than .01% of the rest of the population.
Massachusetts governor orders some hospitals to delay non-essential procedures
Massachusetts Gov.
Charlie Baker (R) signed an emergency declaration on Tuesday ordering some hospitals to delay non-essential procedures due to staffing shortages.
The governor, along with the state’s Department of Health,
said hospitals that do not have the capacity or staff for patients will have to delay non-essential procedures.
The guidance was also made in coordination with the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association.
The order, effective Nov. 29, sees non-essential, non-urgent scheduled procedures as procedures that aren’t medical emergencies that were scheduled in advance.
The order was spurred by staffing shortages which caused the loss of 500 medical/surgical and ICU hospital beds.
"The current strain on hospital capacity is due to longer than average hospital stays and significant workforce shortages, separate and apart from the challenges brought on by COVID,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said.
“COVID hospitalizations in Massachusetts remain lower than almost every other state in the nation, but the challenges the healthcare system face remain, and this order will ensure hospitals can serve all residents, including those who require treatment for COVID-19,” Sudders added.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) signed an emergency declaration on Tuesday ordering some hospitals to delay nonessential procedures due to staffing shortages.The governor, along with the …
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Surgery uncertainty: How Manitoba's 4th wave is spoiling the new premier's backlog-clearing pledge
Manitoba is postponing more surgeries while Heather Stefanson says work is underway to get more done
To prepare for an expected surge of COVID-19 patients, Manitoba hospitals are once again postponing some surgeries and other medical procedures.
At the same time, Manitoba Shared Health is trying to whittle away a backlog of postponed surgeries and diagnostic procedures that started piling up 20 months ago, at the start of the pandemic.
You don't need a master's degree in health administration to see how postponing surgeries complicates the task of getting more of them done.
The fourth wave of COVID-19 is stubbornly sticking around. It's currently infecting more than 140 Manitobans every day on average and sending a fraction of them weeks later to hospital, where they require the attention of medical staff who might otherwise be deployed to surgical and diagnostic units.
"We did not want to be here again," Monika Warren, Shared Health's COVID -19 operations chief, said on Nov. 12. She explained how some staff were being redeployed into intensive care units to avoid a repeat of the nightmare scenario during the peak of the third wave.
What did we gain? We have been trying to avoid an all out meltdown of our medical systems. The go on as usual route would have taken us to many more deaths and those that will have long term aftereffects from the virus. You are going along with the thought that the medical results would have been the same if we pretened the virus was not serious. The main reason it was not worse was because we fought it. It could have been much better but anti-vaxers brainwashed the gullible.