One of my pet roadrunners in Yuma Arizona. They eat like royalty.
It's eating chicken
They visit my yard everyday and come up to the porch window. This is the baby one.
Here is another roadrunner fluffing its feathers. To warm up after a cold desert night, a roadrunner will turn its back to the sun, fluff its back feathers, and expose skin along its back. This skin is black in order to absorb more solar energy
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Healthcare workers will not continue to risk their lives with ZERO help from state and federal leaders. A nationwide healthcare worker strike is nearing...
In Chicago, 700 nursing-home workers are striking to demand hazard pay, better working conditions and PPE. We stand with you @SEIUhciimk. The world is watching! #StrikeForOurLives
Rather than provide safe working conditions, Infinity Healthcare Management called the police on workers demanding safe working conditions. We stand with you @SEIUhciimk. The world is watching!
We have 105 COVID patients hospitalized at our small community hospital in Arizona!!! ICU is full! Where are the 175 ICU beds at @dougducey? This is NOT OK!
BREAKING: Pima County, Arizona implements a "voluntary curfew" amid record-breaking 878 new cases & unprecedented hospitalizations. Pima Co. has 1 million residents and contains Tucson, 2nd largest city in Arizona, also home to @uarizona 1/5
.@dougducey this is a cry for help from the County Administrator, Chuck Huckelberry: “We’re trying to get people to pay attention since we’re now at the worst point we’ve ever been with infections.” 2/5
The county does NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to mandate a curfew, but it’s clear that one should be implemented. If @dougducey is not willing to implement preventive health measures to help frontline healthcare providers, we demand he grants powers to county officials statewide 3/5
🧵NO ICU BEDS! When our rural Arizona hospital ICU is full, we medevac patients to different hospitals across the state, BUT NOT TONIGHT, because there were NO ACCEPTING HOSPITALS, so for an entire 12 hour shift we managed ICU patients, while treating other emergencies. 1/13
There was one patient MEDEVACED via helicopter with head trauma to another hospital who needed a neurosurgeon, not to an ICU b/c there were no beds, but to an emergency room where they were taken care of by another ER physician until a NEURO ICU bed opened up. 2/13
Where are these 175 available ICU beds in Arizona, b/c for a rural hospital not to find accepting hospitals is problematic. SHOW ME which hospitals have beds that are STAFFED with nurses, because a bed WITHOUT a nurse is like a plane WITHOUT a pilot – USELESS 3/13
🧵Busy night. Several sick patients and many of them were hypoxic from COVID. Several intubations. Imagine your mother, father, brother, or sister lifeless on a breathing machine and getting a call from ME at 4 in the morning to tell you they are on a breathing machine. 1/6
No one ever thinks COVID is going to affect them, until it eventually does. But COVID is rapidly sweeping through households in underserved communities who can't physically distance in small apartments. 2/6
4,331 new cases this morning. Patients are waiting hours for ICU beds because there are only 175 beds in Arizona. Same story nationwide. "Sorry doc, we have no room in our ICUs, Is the patient COVID or non-covid? Send the COVID test and let us know" 3/6