2/ One patient in Anahuac was flown by helicopter to a hospital 120 miles away.— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 14, 2020
Ambulances are waiting up to 10 hours to deliver patients to packed Hidalgo County ERs.
Midland and Odessa hospitals have turned away patients from West Texas facilities. href="https://t.co/WbXJJy8kM5">https://t.co/WbXJJy8kM5
Nobody could have foreseen....
4/ Epidemiologists say the state’s hospitals may be in for a longer, harder ride than places like New York, where hospitals were stretched to capacity in the spring. https://t.co/YcMjbQNRxI— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 14, 2020
6/ "There’s nothing else other than COVID. … You treat COVID, you look at COVID, you see COVID, you smell COVID, you hear COVID. Everything’s COVID," said Dr. Jamil Madi, the medical director of an ICU in Harlingen. https://t.co/YcMjbQNRxI— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 14, 2020
8/8 Health care workers are urging Texans to wear masks, wash their hands frequently and avoid contact with others as much as possible to help prevent new coronavirus infections. https://t.co/YcMjbQNRxI pic.twitter.com/SCiYH6YoOD— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 14, 2020
I hope this is one of the ads Joe Biden is running in Texas.
I want every single American to know: If you're sick, struggling, or worried about how you're going to get through the day, I will not abandon you.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 14, 2020
We're all in this together. And together, we'll emerge stronger than before. pic.twitter.com/NUg03vokKp
Because Biden has to compete in Texas:
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 14, 2020
Take away Texas, you take away Trump's road back into the White House. We need all the help we can get: in Texas, and in the country. No state is too small; no state is too big. People are now noticing Hillary lost Texas by only 9 points, and she never really tried, here. We can't make that mistake again.
The stakes are too damned high.
NYC was horrible at the height of the crisis, but I still don't think they had ambulances waiting hours to drop off patients. What's worse is that this was totally avoidable, the lessons had been learned in NY. Please stay safe.
ReplyDeleteDear God, please send your grace and caring to the EMTs, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and everyone working so hard to care for and heal those caught up in this pandemic. Sustain them as they work under such difficult conditions to save those in their care.