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The latest United States COVID-19 wave is taking its toll on some states’ intensive-care units, with several parts of the country seeing outbreaks that are as bad as ever. #ICU #COVID19 #DeltaVariant #DeltaSurge bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Many of our physicians are at a breaking point,” IHME's @AliHMokdad told @business.

“It’s not easy to be day in and day out in an emergency room, in an ICU, looking at someone who is dying because he or she is not vaccinated.” #COVID19 #VaccinesSaveLives #DeltaVariant
In 15 states, patients with confirmed or suspected #COVID19 are taking up more ICU beds than a year earlier, according to @NIH_NIAMS data. These are top states with highest %s of ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 patients:

▪️ Colorado – 41%
▪️ Minnesota – 37%
▪️ Michigan – 34% Image
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A few weeks ago I tweeted about the rising cases due to #DeltaVariant. I was surprised by the number of people who replied saying essentially “they did this to themselves.”

A short 🧵about why we ought to look at this situation differently
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Seeing the #DeltaSurge among the un-vaccinated, I'm reminded of an adage I learned in my residency: “The trauma ICU is filled by man’s cruelty to man & the medical ICU by man’s cruelty to himself.”
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It’s true.

Without tobacco, alcohol, & opioids, there would be less COPD, cirrhosis, & endocarditis.

Without dietary indiscretions & "noncompliance”, we would not see fewer complications of DM or exacerbations of chronic illness.

But it's also not so simple.
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