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#H5N1isAirborne - it will be a miracle if the USDA and CDC don't 1918 us. Don't forget, the first wave was mild. Until it wasn't. #PZC.

Dec 16, 2021, 7 tweets

Imagine breaking your big toe. And having to wait 20 hours to get help in the ER.

Welcome to #CoVidBurnThrough in Pennsylvania.

The story there?

Same as it is nation-wide. Staffing shortages...and for the same reasons, probably, too.

Lost 18% of HCW's due to quitting last year.

12% more laid off.

31% of those still working, are thinking of leaving.

66% of acute and critical care nurses thinking of leaving.

Why?

If you were treated like this by your boss?

Keeping in mind that 12% of staff were laid off by the administrators?

Knowing how they gave the nurses gratitude journals as thank you's?

Meanwhile, @MonicaGandhi9 and @MartyMakary call for hospitalizations to be the metric.

I wonder how those Pennsylvania HCW's or those on the actual front-line feel about that call?

One last thought. When you went into the ER?

They made you take off your N95, and put on a surgical mask.

Just like everyone else.

20 hours.

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