!!! From a HCW in a #BCpoli hospital just now:
"They are now making it difficult to test people in hospital - they're refusing to authorize PCR tests on people who become symptomatic. There's a NAAT PCR machine in ED but inpatient can't use it without special authorization.."
"They are now making it difficult to test people in hospital - they're refusing to authorize PCR tests on people who become symptomatic. There's a NAAT PCR machine in ED but inpatient can't use it without special authorization.."
..I ran this past a nurse who replied: "And we all know why that is! Families are threatening to sue if their relatives get nosocomial [hospital-acquired] COVID" ie. from infected patients placed in the same room. Hospitals covering rears? If you don't test, there's no proof...
Respond to this news please, @adriandix. You're the health minister! I have an elderly aunt with a broken hip, with preexisting heart trouble, in a Vancouver hospital in a shared room with a Covid patient right now. She has stayed uninfected all pandemic, but it won't last now.
@adriandix If Emergency admitting can't test incoming patients for COVID anymore using their own hospital test machines, and this is not for the cynical reason that seems to be the most obvious explanation, please explain it to us, Mr. Dix.
@adriandix More stories of this happening: uninfected patients getting admitted to hospital for non-COVID cause and contracting COVID in hospital. And now testing is suppressed in order that this can happen more stealthily, without proof, @adriandix?
https://twitter.com/tvance77/status/1484962858555240448?s=20
@adriandix .. IF YOU ARE A BC HEALTHCARE WORKER AND HAVE A STORY you want to deliver to the media anonymously, you can use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #bcpoli #Covid19BC
@adriandix And then there's this:
https://twitter.com/vicleungiddoc/status/1485312218770010112?s=21
@adriandix ..Can we just state some things here that should be obvious?
1. Every single person who enters hospital should be tested as a matter of course. This is a damn pandemic. Not to do so denies the most basic scientific fact of the prevalence of asymptomatic spread of COVID.. #bcpoli
1. Every single person who enters hospital should be tested as a matter of course. This is a damn pandemic. Not to do so denies the most basic scientific fact of the prevalence of asymptomatic spread of COVID.. #bcpoli
@adriandix ... and not testing inpatients puts all other patients in the hospital at risk.
2. This point is a Q: if BC hospitals are no longer broadly testing all patients, are they then falsely/blindly declaring all hospital patients outside of COVID wards negative?.. #bcpoli
2. This point is a Q: if BC hospitals are no longer broadly testing all patients, are they then falsely/blindly declaring all hospital patients outside of COVID wards negative?.. #bcpoli
@adriandix ..3. BC now has an overt policy of mixing COVID patients in with uninfected patients in hospital wards. To my knowledge, BC is the only province in Canada that has stated that it will actively allow this. If there's another example of this, please advise. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
@adriandix ..And now we have a record # of #COVID19 patients in BC hospitals, for this "mild" wave, a wave that could have been mitigated, but wasn't.
https://twitter.com/GlenKorstrom/status/1485770366144311297#bcpoli
@adriandix PS just a note that the request from @brish_ti for anonymous stories from HCWs/nurses etc. mentioned earlier in this thread is for those working in Island Health only. Thanks! #bcpoli #bhttps://twitter.com/Protect_BC/status/1485775261589114881?s=20
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