John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
US Totals: Infections 60,072,321 | Deaths 837,594

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Life or Death

Missouri hit pandemic peaks for COVID-19 hospitalizations and daily net new admissions.
Steve Edwards, CEO of CoxHealth, warned on Tuesday that not every patient could receive treatments proven to help mitigate the disease.
“Monoclonal antibodies are becoming scarce,” Edwards wrote.

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More than COVID Patients will Die in Missouri
As a Result of COVID

“Kimberly Megow, chief medical officer at HCA Midwest Health System, which serves the Kansas City metro area,
said the hospital are at the point of ‘crisis standard of care,’
meaning doctors will start determining who gets care and who is left to die.”

Because area hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID patients and so many staff out sick with COVID themselves, the unthinkable has becomes a reality. Life or death decisions will include the elderly, strokes, heart attacks, cancer patients, trauma victims, plus other illnesses NOT having anything to do with COVID. Someone, who has chosen to Not get vaccinated & then ended up being hospitalized with COVID may receive life saving care to live; while others, who did get vaccinated (and may not even have COVID) may not. Too many lives, which could have been saved with proper medical treatment, will now not receive treatment. Up until this pandemic, such health care rationing was unimaginable for a country such as America. But here we are.

“Other countries, such as South Africa, have faced a spike in cases due to the variant, but they saw a drop after they put stringent mitigation measures in place, including a shutdown, Garza said. However, in Missouri, public health departments ‘hands have been tied because of legislation and recent lawsuits’, said Clay Dunagan, BJC HealthCare’s chief clinical officer. That combined with Gov. Mike Parson ending Missouri’s state of emergency recently, hospital leaders said they are ‘panicked.’

“‘There really are no hospitals left untouched,’ Dunagan said. ‘There’s no place for us to go for respite. We don’t have a place that we can send patients if we run out of room. There’s no safe harbor.’”

“Hospital and public health leaders on both sides of the state have urged Parson to put the state’s emergency order back in place. Garza said the governor’s recent decision to end the emergency order has taken away some of their vital tools, including extending waivers for telemedicine to increase hospital capacity, being able to move caregivers across state lines quickly and deploying the National Guard to perform COVID-related missions such as testing.”

“The St. Louis County Council and the Kansas City council both voted last week to put an indoor mask mandate back in place. All Missouri counties had abandoned an effort to maintain a mask mandate last month, in the wake of Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s push to crush out all such orders statewide. Once again, Schmitt has now announced that he will file a lawsuit seeking to halt the St Louis and the Kansas City mask requirements.”

This was first published by The Missouri Independent, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization

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Video of Dire Warning from hospital serving the greater Kansas City metro: https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/see-doctors-warning-about-potentially-having-to-let-patients-die/459335728996299/

The same thing – following the commercial - https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2022/01/08/covid-19-omicron-delta-waves-crisis-care-dr-steven-stites-kansas-ndwknd-vpx.cnn

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"Missouri records more COVID cases in January than all of December...

"Hospitals are overwhelmed.
Both Delta and Omicron are circulating.
Only 53% of the State is vaccinated." FOX News

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