@eagle4congress .Long thread.
Seven years ago, my late wife was experiencing severe abdominal discomfort, and we sat in the ER for hours until a bed was located. Turned out she had colon cancer, and needed emergency surgery. There is nothing unusual about such cases.
Seven years ago, my late wife was experiencing severe abdominal discomfort, and we sat in the ER for hours until a bed was located. Turned out she had colon cancer, and needed emergency surgery. There is nothing unusual about such cases.
@eagle4congress I too have gone to the hospital in severe discomfort and waited hours to be admitted and diagnosed for treatment, and all before anyone ever heard of the #Covid virus.
Chris stated that people were being "turned away" at FL ERs, and was asked to provide the names of hospitals
Chris stated that people were being "turned away" at FL ERs, and was asked to provide the names of hospitals
@eagle4congress where that was happening.
He doesn't. Instead he provides one case where a child had to wait, then be transferred because the hospital's pediatric surgery cases weren't up to the challenge. There is no statement from the hospital system about their ERs turning people away.
He doesn't. Instead he provides one case where a child had to wait, then be transferred because the hospital's pediatric surgery cases weren't up to the challenge. There is no statement from the hospital system about their ERs turning people away.
@eagle4congress If you follow the links backward, the boy's father, Nathan Osborn, said that if the hospital had been less crowded, his son Seth's waiting time would have been less. That's a tautology. The story is careful NOT to say how much time was needed to properly assess Seth.
@eagle4congress Dad adds that MAYBE his son's appendix wouldn't have burst before they removed it. Well, look at hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbr…
It's a study of appendicitis in the U.S. in the first decade of this century, and it took me less than five minutes to find.
It's a study of appendicitis in the U.S. in the first decade of this century, and it took me less than five minutes to find.
@eagle4congress If I am reading Figure 1 correctly, in that time period more than 30% of adolescents with appendicitis had it burst before it was diagnosed and removed. For non-adolescents, 29% overall. So it's a quite common complication.
@eagle4congress Going back to PEOPLE and PRO PUBLICA, there are no medical details that would let you judge even approximately what the waiting time for Seth's surgery would have been if he'd been seen the moment he came in, or whether his appendix wouldn't have burst before removal.
@eagle4congress I called the hospital in question, btw, and was shunted to voice mail. We'll see what THEY have to say about their ERs. Remembering the ROLLING STONE'S Ivermectin story, I suspect the hospital system itself will have a different take.
@eagle4congress All of this is typical of these horror stories, in my experience. Chris made a very serious claim: FL hospitals are TURNING PATIENTS AWAY FROM THEIR ERs, allegedly because they are overwhelmed with covid patients. He can't come up with a single name.
@eagle4congress Instead, he tries to palm this off on us.
IMAO, the fact that all the "get vaxxed today, or disaster awaits" crowd lie like this, and so badly, shows that many of them know telling the truth wouldn't serve their purposes.
IMAO, the fact that all the "get vaxxed today, or disaster awaits" crowd lie like this, and so badly, shows that many of them know telling the truth wouldn't serve their purposes.
@eagle4congress It also shows that many of them are suffering are so panicked that they can no longer recognize or evaluate the truth.
@eagle4congress @threadreaderapp unroll please
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