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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
“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%
▪️ Colorado – 41%
▪️ Minnesota – 37%
▪️ Michigan – 34%
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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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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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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