Overwhelmed: Inside Oregon's ICUs | 'We see no end' | Full special report

[@kyle570]

A nurse here - we love to hear your thanks, but we're tired. Tired of being called heroes, angels, blessings - when society turns around and simply ignores our pleas to get vaccinated. We do everything we can but people just keep dying when they don't have to. If you truly care about your hospital staff, please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and those around you. Don't be another body we have to bag. Please. I'm begging you.

[@Andrea-xw4hb]

I guess people who praise you are not the ones refusing the vacine.

[@haleyclark990]

@Mary Carroll The audacity to tell a nurse that they don’t know what they’re talking about and that they’re brainwashed, when they are literally living it and have first hand experience with what’s going on, particularly in hospitals.

[@jjbud3124]

@@haleyclark990 Audacity? It's the pot calling the kettle black, or worse.

[@believeitornot2650]

@Mary CarrollIt's hard to go back when you've built a world that protects you from the assaults of what you have in front of you. Imagine for a second that this is all true, it's all you put between yourself and the raw reality that would crumble. If this little world you built weren't dangerous and meaningless, I would tell you that you are just an insignificant thorn in the side of those who act for the community. Unfortunately, you are much worse than that. Save your contempt for other occasions and let them do their job. You know, this job that they do despite you are putting obstacles in their way...

[@believeitornot2650]

@Mary Carroll I am willing to believe that you only have your own person in mind. If there is anything that it was not necessary to specify, it was indeed that.

[@user-eh2hj8bx6O]

I wish more news stations would show more footage from local ICUs.

[@alejandrae5605]

This’s not news...this is paid by big Pharma Soros and Gates...open your eyes!!!

[@jennjen40]

It took these stories for my family and I to get vaccinated, I agree 100% they should show more of these video's then the idiots who are saying not to vaccinate and or wear a mask. maybe just maybe then everyone or majority of people will get there vaccination. :(

[@jennjen40]

@@alejandrae5605 My mom is a RN and sees covid19 patients and they are not being paid to lie to people to get vaccinated. Really?!? Stop it!!!. These nurses and doctors really care about people and for there family's etc. by people not vaccinated they are risking there own life and other people's life's too. There just trying to open everyone's eyes on what is going on. you people that think everyone is out to get them need to open your eyes, Very sad!!. :(

[@crystaledwards9878]

@@alejandrae5605 you need to open Yours. I lost my college roommate to COVID. It’s real.

[@marj8885]

@@jennjen40 thank you. As one of the ICU nurse I think the public needs to see more of how things are in the ICU. We have nothing to gain from videos like this. It's unbelievable how much resistance we still face against the vaccine, people need to listen to science and the nurses. We don't make this up, it is very real.

[@thebigwarthog]

It’s awful to hear this is happening in the US where there is no shortage of vaccines. If Americans refuse to vaccinate at least donate vaccines to countries that really need them.

[@isabelgarcia7837]

Yes , my country needs more vaccines. They should donate then since these entitled spoiled people dont want vaccines

[@codent]

Let's get those vaccs donated to other countries before they expire, they don't have a long shelf life.

[@Kungs.]

Isn’t it strange how countries with low vaccination rates seem to be less affected by delta variant.

[@mr.wilson8340]

@@codent @ No, let’s get the third dose up and going right now. Don’t give away what we need.

[@codent]

@@mr.wilson8340 Fair point...3rd dose, than after that extras go to needy countries.

[@alexlaessle1]

Dear Dr.s and ICU nurses, you don't deserve any of this.

[@sl4983]

What exactly did they go into this career for?

[@sl4983]

@B Pope How old are you? 12?

[@Shiznaft1]

@@sl4983 Not to deal with people who chose to die because of ignorance and foolishness. They are human, tired, worn out and justifiably angry.

[@joerhodes213]

@@sl4983...they choose this career to help sick people...ALL sick people. Not just COVID patients. And right now, COVID patients are overwhelming the system to the point where they are forcing other patients out of the care they need. So COVID patients are forcing them to choose who to help, instead of helping everybody. This is not what they chose.

[@gabbykuch6104]

@Dan Bowman as a nurse myself this comment makes me absolutely sick. No matter how exhausted, frustrated, or what ever else I am feeling that absolutely does NOT come into my mind. I want these patients to get better and I want them to survive and tell people how important it is to get vaccinated and wear a mask!

[@geekbabe100]

Cancer patient who works in a hospital. I literally ran, when they told me they had enough Pfizer for me. I just got my third shot Monday & am actually glad to have a fever and headache. My immune system is working!

[@deagri7869]

Bravo you have common sense ..the other fools dont..

[@elainem3102]

Well done. Wish you the best of health in the future ❤️

[@mimikyu__-]

Congrats! I’ve gotten the first two already! Not sure when I’ll be getting the 3rd

[@mapratt]

Getting ready for a trip to MD Anderson cancer center in Houston, at the end of the month. Got a booster Friday. Blessings on your journey.

[@shannonjohnson4314]

Thank you for your service and for protecting us by getting vaccinated!

[@Sabactus]

I'm an ICU nurse, thank you for showing what we are going through and telling the truth. It helps to know at least someone is listening.

[@shtfprepperlady4899]

I just wanted y'all to know that when vaccines became available I made the choice to get vaccinated. Its the right thing to do. Think about overwhelmed hospitals because people who choose not to get vaccinated. To not get vaccinated these people are not only putting their own lives in danger but also putting others in danger.

[@pamelahaile5719]

I have a son and daughter-in-law that lived in Forest Grove. I have done everything 10 fold to get them to get vaccinated, and they still refused. It breaks my heart. There excuse is long term side effects of the vaccine. They have 2 children. Am a retired Oncology Nurses Assistant. My heart is so full of love and respect for all you nurses out there. Your hard work does not get unrecognized. My prayers go out to all of you. Good Blessed. Thank you Stay strong.

[@SuzanneDeniseB]

Im so sorry. I also have family members that refuse to br vaccinated. It truly is heartbreaking 💔. Sending love.

[@debbywickman1103]

@@SuzanneDeniseB i also have family members who wont take the vaccine. They listen to rumors. Hurts my heart

[@hellooutthere8956]

Did you have any adverse reactions to the vaccine?

[@suegurney4666]

Show them this video . Will they agree to watch it ?

[@kellyberry4173]

@@hellooutthere8956 I had a headache. Husband ran a fever for a day......thats all.

[@peekaaa9931]

Still….and radio is cheerily saying “Now that we are turning the corner on COVID and getting back to school and work….” What planet are they on??

[@MrDogonjon]

Planet "Claire"? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYWUfWiprLKAjKs "No one ever dies there... no one has a care"

[@blkbks13]

@@MrDogonjon Go B52s

[@darkprince56]

You know, you can actually go to the health and human services website and look for the hospital utilization page and check nationwide or state ICUs. In Oregon for example, 32.37% of ICU beds are taken by covid patients. It’s 30.22% in the country. All this fear-mongering and propaganda for a virus that has a 98% survival rate.

[@BoggWeasel]

The politicians are saying that... media repeats what the know nothing political hacks say to be popular rather than risk losing a vote. All the medical and virology specialists are urging caution, have been for a while...but no one's listening. People would rather live with an pleasant lie then live with an unpleasant truth... and in spite of "Your" need to party and play, Covid has not and is not going anywhere soon...

[@mr1enrollment]

@@darkprince56 so tell me what is 2% of 330,000,000? Now that is a big number of people that will not survive. You seem to understand that. In case you missed it - the staggering number of people crowding the hospitals are displacing patients with other health issues, so they cannot get treatment. How can you justify not getting the vaccine so that the hospitals have a chance of providing service to everyone? Now I am sure you have heard this argument before, and lets assume you are not stupid. (I am having difficulty containing my rage.) But I really am interested how you think, and why? Is this part of the political battle? Do you approve of Trump? Is that the root of it? Tell me how you think the vaccine limits your freedom? Those people laying in hospitals are not free to exit, nor free to live, many will die. Do you stop at stop signs? Do you use a seat belt? Do you accept the purpose of wearing helmets? How about the need to have a driver license? Are those things not limits on your freedom? Really - please explain it to me. You are welcome to be angry, don't hold back - just tell me so that I may understand.

[@Mmmmkaaay]

What a way to die. Sedated, surrounded by strangers, unable to breathe on your own. I'll risk a vaccine injury over that any day. Sadly, we all suffer because if you need a doctor/surgeon for an issue other than COVID, best of luck finding one. These doctors and nurses held back anger quite well.

[@mchobbit2951]

I am self isolating so i don't risk the vaccine injury OR the disease. If I get the vaccine injury, I will always wonder...if I had not taken the vaccine, would I have even gotten covid or I would have been able to come out of self isolation healthy and able to actually live a happy life? If you want to take that risk and potentially get injured, go ahead. I am not "taking one for the team" by ruining my life.

[@dennisexplorer487]

Well as for me I'd rather die than get the vaccine. It should be our choice, when someone is forceing me into something I don't agree with People should respect that. If you got the jab why do you care if I'm vaxed. . Your protected. The fact is they don't even work, My brother took 2 shots and he still got it. So when China Joe Biden says its the pandemic of the unvaccinated that really gets me, who does he think he is , God? No sir , thanks but no thanks.I got no shots & I never even got a cold. Explain that to me, you need faith not listen to CNN or another channel of mass destraction, propaganda and putting fear into people for what, for a virus that has a 2 or 3 % rate of killing you .People die anyways& the dead are either obese,have diabetis or some other chronic illness. Truth be told. I hope you don't get any long-term sise effects & Happy New Year to you..

[@lypscratch]

"I know the depth of grief that I would feel if I couldn't be with my loved one as they died, so I take the responsibility very seriously to love that person as if they were my own family member and provide them with a death that's dignified and honorable, as much as possible in an ICU that is sterile and cold and unforgiving." -Julie Kleese, ICU Nurse

[@KK-qn8ep]

God bless you

[@lowtiertactical7701]

Yeah this coming holiday season. Some are going to be giving Grandma a hug. Then wonder while she’s in the hospital dying twos weeks later.

[@juliemiller9258]

It is hard but you do have that correct attitude. I worked mostly with seniors but still my body and mind did reach a limit. Knowing you are doing the right thing, as much as you can for each person, is all anyone can do. These broadcasts do help, so keep reaching out.

[@lowtiertactical7701]

I lost my father to covid. I told him what I wanted to hear from me through the nurse over the phone. She said some thing the effect that he said you were a really good father. I told her repeat what I said verbatim. This was the death that affected me. Plus I was getting over covid myself. This was when there was no vaccine. We were the cases 7 and 8 here in my town. The state wanted plasma. When I returned to work at the grocery store and seen how the public was treating this. I said they will not even get one ounce.

[@Scorpiogirl_1029]

To each and every one of the nurses and doctors, thank you for taking care of us when we need you most. Saying that you all are heroes or angels is an understatement. I wish there was a way we could take care of you all with the heavy burden on your shoulders.

[@smilinjoe23]

Yes!. By getting vaccinated... Unless you have severe allergies, that's all we want from the gen pop. -your ER nurse

[@pjk1714]

Make a list of all the excuses and assemble the facts to share. Send people to the AAP website to read reality about kids. Don't shame, just be informed.

[@sweetsugarjones]

@@pjk1714 They won’t be educated. They won’t even wear masks. How long are we supposed to coddle them?

[@pjk1714]

@@sweetsugarjones The times are turning in many communities. It's becoming necessity of care, space and care for others. I read an article recently, vehicle accident patient couldn't have surgery to save his life. Here the unvaccinated are not being refused daily needs but any entertainment including dinning in isn't available to them unless medically exempt.

[@georgeredbranch652]

I hate the term "hero". A hero to me, is someone who is willing to give their life to save another's. As a nurse, the only people l will without hesitation give my life for is my family. Ignorance will not work me to death, l will leave nursing before that.

[@amyfreakinkrupa]

This has been the majority of my 2 year RN career. I wanted to be a nurse to help people, but all this has been has been watching over vented patients until they inevitably die. I don’t feel I make any sort of difference, and I can’t tell you how crushing that feels. I am now adept at looking at a patient and KNOWING that they WILL get intubated and die. I KNOW that they will suffer the entire time, no matter how much we do for them, and they do it alone. There is no glory or dignity in dying this way. And I only ever feel a cog in the machine that puts these people through the torture of dying slowly day after day, because there’s nothing else we can do.

[@carbine090909]

Would getting vaccinated help?

[@frankvonfrauner]

You're making a difference. Providing care for dying people is just as important as healing people.

[@sweetsugarjones]

I’m so sorry you have to go through this Amy, I can only imagine the cumulative trauma inherent to this frontline. Of course it’s not what you signed up for, but it’s still immensely important work until and unless there’s some alternative to that machine you feel a cog in. You are making a difference, we need you. Holding out hope for you, and for all of us, to reach the other side of this unnecessary suffering, where your valuable efforts can also feel valuable to you.

[@sweetsugarjones]

@@carbine090909 Is that a rhetorical question? Our ICUs are full of unvaccinated people who can’t be saved, that’s her entire point and the point of the clip we’re discussing. It’s been stated repeatedly by our medical professionals. The answer is yes, still yes, a million times yes.

[@sweetsugarjones]

@@galbalut9901 We have a vaccine that they could have taken for free before they got Covid in the first place. It eliminates the need for early or any treatment in the vast majority of cases. I’ll never understand the mass psychosis that is keeping people from comprehending this.

[@EndeavorsDnB]

All you Dr’s and Nurse’s as well as all other hospital staff are absolute Hero’s!! 💙💙

[@Sheila612Miller]

Thank you! It's nice to hear.

[@fredgarvinMP]

Until they decline vaccination.

[@MrDogonjon]

The whole problem is people are spending too much time in ICU before they die taking up space other people need to die knowing they tried to not die. .PEOPLE NEED TO DIE FASTER. Unvaccinated people will die more readily denying to their final gasping ventilator cycle. So the advice is if you are not vaccinated... die at home much easier and you can have all your family and friends as visitors who will die too..

[@fredgarvinMP]

@@MrDogonjon Do you also hope that the 5,000 Americans who have died from the vaccines don't clog up our hospitals because they freely took the vaccine and knew the risks?

[@mimikyu__-]

@@fredgarvinMP 5,000 people did not die because they got vaccinated.

[@jwestfalldavis3574]

Do ask family members who work in hospitals how they are doing. My niece said it was like a war zone: People piled up in the ER waiting for someone to die so they could get a bed. Just the numbers of people dying per shift hurt the staff, too. Seeing the younger aged patients dying, too, is overwhelming. The staff needs help with PTSD.

[@linda6666linda]

Sounds like someone has been reading The Spanish flu / or Pale rider .....

[@0xsergy]

@@linda6666linda sounds like someone has been reading too many conspiracy blogs.

[@shaz8486]

I feel for your niece and all medical staff, they are so overwhelmed and stressed out, while still trying to protect themselves and their family. Those that won’t get vaccinated by choice should be made to wait for health care, they CHOSE not to vaccinate, then they should be now made to choose to wait for health care, because every other illness hasn’t suddenly stopped because of covid, that all on top of covid but they seem to be getting pushed aside, which is so wrong on every single level when they are sick due to personal choice. The occasional patient that has been double vaccinated has done the right thing, then by all means they get any health care needed. This is not new now, it’s been almost two years, so no excuse not to vaccinate. Just selfish.

[@chrischampagne9217]

Did you hear that? , selfish unvaxers?

[@AN-zz8ps]

@@shaz8486 yes! I agree with everything you just said!

[@painting-with-J]

Thanks for showing this. My wife died from Covid back in December before the vaccines were available.. I have had nightmares about her dying alone for the last 8 months. You can hear it described but until you see it you never can really understand. Of course it does not help me feel any better nor will it help me sleep better, but at least now I understand more about her last days.

[@didirobert3657]

John, I am so sorry for your loss.

[@Adelicows]

Sending you hope and love and light. And a big hug ❤️🌻🙏

[@cl5470]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@HoodedHound]

Sorry for you loss, John. May she rest in peace.

[@toeachitsown2050]

So very sorry you had to go through this

[@user-eh2hj8bx6O]

We need to reserve a percentage of beds for vaccinated people who are suffering from other health conditions (like cancer, heart attacks, etc) and need a bed/surgical room. It's not fair that the unvaccinated are taking up space.

[@seleneledezma3543]

This 100 percent 👍

[@markjohnson8824]

Fat people and smokers should not be allowed in hospitals either.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Mark, fat people and smokers aren't contagious are they?

[@maryhunter6389]

@@markjohnson8824 - That is different. It is not contageous. They are not taking up beds of other patients. There is no vaccine to cure it.

[@markjohnson8824]

@@maryhunter6389 Yes they are.

[@usazar]

It felt like Christmas when my COVID-19 vaccine appointment came in April, it's so crazy to see people fighting against vaccines.

[@need4speed24]

to put this in perspective, the drug he is talking about goes by ACTEMRA. it is used in pediatric patients also for a lot of rheum diseases. these children are not getting the treatment for their rheum disease because we are using up their supply. this is where "fairness" comes in to play. is it fair to give this to an unvaccinated COVID patient or a kid who never chose to have their potentially deadly rheum disease? I believe the study also only showed a 3% improvement in mortality for covid patients. which doesn't sound like a lot, but that could be your loved one it saves. and every life essentially counts. extremely difficult.

[@bodiesatva]

i tested negative for sympathy when it comes to unvaccinated people dying of covid, you reap what you sow.

[@Mt-ue9qz]

Lets not forget the expense to the hospital, local + state + federal expenses, hospitals going bankrupt, non Covid patients unable to get seen or treated because someone who held out out of fear/dislike/distrust of medicine can (at this time) displace those who do care enough to protect themselves and loved ones. The shame alone should make them implode. I am officially disgusted with some Americans. What if doctors and nurses start quitting out of stress?! Who will you go to for assistance? This is horrific yet still fixable.

[@runiedunie]

Someone died recently because of a basic issue- because Covid patients had flooded the hospital.

[@lowtiertactical7701]

It costed aprox $350,000 dollars for my father to die of covid. Over a period of about 30 days. I like to put it in that terms. Because the respect for other human lives and taking precautions just doesn't register with some of them.

[@trish5111]

@@lowtiertactical7701 sorry for your loss

[@lowtiertactical7701]

@@trish5111 thank you.

[@Mt-ue9qz]

@@lowtiertactical7701 awww, that must’ve been hard on you, him and other family to endure. I hope you are handling this loss as well as can be expected under the circumstances. I still have my mom but she’s a bit histrionic about not having enough fun. I found her spending time with my bro and his two youngest kids, all his family had Covid about eight months ago and non vaxxed, not wearing masks, sitting across a fairly narrow dining table. She’s becoming a petulant child. That is getting exhausting, too. Hang in there! Be careful, stay well.

[@getSimTim]

So the doctor in charge of the four hospitals said that people with cancer and heart conditions are not being treated because of the unvaccinated... I think we have to start getting in a priority straight if we want to keep more people alive

[@americafirst9144]

A LOT of the people in hospitals have been fully vaccinated.

[@MrDogonjon]

sorry first come first served and pushy people go to the front of the line.

[@MrDogonjon]

@Mary Carroll A lot of people "believed" the vaccine would provide immunity and many of us had our doubt with long duration symptoms and regular relapses we knew vaccine was a stop gap measure... all we got for now... hope for better expect the worst.

[@getSimTim]

@Mary Carroll The evidence you have provided is extremely compelling, do tell more

[@jt8142]

@Mary Carroll There you go again, making up another bogus story. Stop lying. 🤥 😈

[@Juliet42110]

St. Charles Hospital is where I was born and in the town I grew up in. Two of my extended family members were just in the ICU there (both are elderly and were double vaccinated), but the good news is they are doing well and are out of the hospital. They received wonderful care at St. Charles. Both are in very poor health before getting covid (one was a lifelong smoker and already on oxygen fully time). Even though they were double vaccinated I'm shocked they both lived due to their serious prior health conditions, this shows how incredible the vaccines are. I'm so sorry that people in my home town and state won't get vaccinated and that this is placing such a huge toll on our health care workers and on others who need care with health issues. Faux Freedom Right to the Grave...

[@Mmm...yummymummy]

I was suprised it hit OR that hard . Oregon ia not a Red state. There are many educated people living there .

[@shaz8486]

@@Mmm...yummymummy I know educated people who are with the stupid “conspiracy theory” and STILL think covid is a hoax ! They are not all young either, some are retired !! I often say intelligent people have no common sense this just proves that theory !

[@RawringTaters]

@@Mmm...yummymummy Outside of PDX it actually is mostly red. Similar to some other states. I grew up in Portland and areas south especially are right wing, Salem and my family there leading the way in that. Its sad that as ok as portland is doing, our ICU are full from people outside the city who wont vaccinate. Plus being from more rural areas they dont have the same health care as in Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro...etc. So another reason they fill our main hospitals.

[@carameltones1]

That great they was vaccinated that's called a breakthrough case the vaccine helped to keep them both from being really sick or on a ventilator or death Happy they are home and doing well 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍

[@ttephi3667]

Which vaccines did they have if I may ask?

[@alyssajoyblack5007]

This makes me so distressed. I am Australian. I am completely pro-vaccination. But I live in a regional area and our idiot government hasn’t bought enough Pfizer for me to be vaccinated given my younger age. I have serious preexisting medical problems but there still isn’t enough vaccine for me. It’s absurd. Thank goodness my mum, who has a preexisting respiratory condition, has been fully vaccination.

[@clintkaster6269]

Be glad you're not here. Fight the good fight and at least you're on an island! Some of my favorite people are Australian!

[@kelvinbrunton4780]

Take care from NZ.

[@shaz8486]

I am also Aussie I am not lib, lab, or green, but I will say one thing. Scomo is NOT responsible for not enough Pfizer. Pfizer have said themselves that Australian was NOT like other countries in the world where people were dying in the thousands dropping like flies. Australia had a much lower risk, that’s why their vaccine was sent to countries that were more desperate. Atm NSW is getting about 1,500 cases of covid a day which to me is huge, but when you look at other countries they are having that many or more deaths a day ! You just can’t compare, Europe, US, most others as their population is so much higher than ours. Now they are allowing from age 12 to get Pfizer so go register or make an appointment with dr and get the jab, as it is only the last few days because so many younger people are getting covid that they have changed the vaccination ages, could be even Maderna ?? I had AstraZeneca about to get my second jab that three month wait seems to take forever…..but I’m in QLD where there have been less cases. Glad your mum is vaccinated all my family are too. So happy our daughter has now been able to get vaccinated, just had her first dose a few weeks ago when they lowered the age in Melbourne. Now I worry about our grandchildren getting it as age is no discrimination with Covid sadly. Everyone should be able to get vaccinated if they want it. 💙🙏🏻

[@jennifermiller6777]

I hope you can get a vaccine soon. I’m embarrassed by Americans who are able to get vaccinated and they refuse while people in other countries can’t get them.

[@pinayladyoz8044]

I am from Brisbane, QLD. I had 2 pfizer vaccines and I was one of the few Qld Health workers that got the vaccines in the early 2020 due to my work in the hospital. You will be ok, vaccine is on the way. Just avoid crowded places, wear mask every time you go out, use hand sanitisers every time you are out, and most of all boast your vitamin C. At the moment, I haven't care for covid patient but the mental stress of thinking about that one day, possibly I will be in there situation to look after unvaccinated covid patients is stressful.

[@lowtiertactical7701]

You may not believe in Covid. But Covid believes in you.

[@mimikyu__-]

@@pizzareviewwithkarrighione5576 that’s not how that works.

[@lowtiertactical7701]

@@pizzareviewwithkarrighione5576 what Im going do. Is put my hands over my face and close my eyes. Then it can’t see me. It worked when I was 3 years old.

[@lowtiertactical7701]

@@pizzareviewwithkarrighione5576 never actually paid any attention to them.

[@lowtiertactical7701]

@@pizzareviewwithkarrighione5576 also I had it and lost my father to it last year. My mom’s best friend also lost her husband to it and is now getting over it herself. My former neighbor also died from it. Me and my father were among the first 10 cases here in town. Until I actually got it. I was doubting the seriousness myself. Don’t speak to me of false narratives. Its very real and I know. Because it coursed through my veins last year. I my fathers ornate death certificate from the county that says COVID-19 in big block letters on it too.

[@Kungs.]

Yeah just don’t think the vaccine for the alpha variant will save you from Delta.

[@josephmiller5399]

This makes it real. Thank you for telling it as it is. Heading into Fall and Winter is very worrisome for the unvaccinated, but especially for the poor medical workers.

[@k8cking]

Oh so you think its worrisome for the unvaccinated😒 i feel no empathy for them , only the hospital staff!! Ask yourself what is wrong with folk in this country?? Selfish idiots , with no care about anybody else then their own hysteria , and denial!!!!!

[@digital6string1]

@@k8cking 80% of the covid cases in Israel's hospital's were fully vaccinated,and that's not the only country,similar stat's in others.

[@ayallikpeterson4959]

@@digital6string1 90+% of Israelis are vaccinated. So, nine out of ten people in Israel are vaccinated, and one in five in the ICU are unvaccinated. They're doubling up on ICU beds taken, per capita.

[@formerx]

A wonderfully produced special report. Now I can see and feel what it's like for Healthcare workers during this crisis.

[@thomashaas5965]

I dare you to actually go to their hospital. Florida hospitals were said to be warzones too - hospitals self-reported ER wait times range from 5 minutes to a high of 30 minutes to be seen. Per their ER online check-in sites. Wait times during normal times are usually longer. So yeah...real crisis lol

[@lovelyskull3483]

@@thomashaas5965 I can’t even imagine how closed off you are.

[@thomashaas5965]

@@lovelyskull3483 I didn't say that disproves anything. But it certainly doesn't support the fear mongering

[@suekaiser4163]

God bless all you health care providers. ❤. I am a retired RN.

[@CeliaCavalli]

Thank you to all our doctors and health care workers. This is so eye opening.

[@accomplicemom]

Are you going to interview the oregon nurses that refuse to take the vaccine? I want to hear their excuses. Or debate between the ICO doctors and the anti vaxx nurses protesting outside the hospitals.

[@rantmission9049]

@Moose moose over 100 million people disagreed with you and got the shot anyway, including Trump.

[@pyramid011]

@Moose moose No, he got the vaccine, and when he got COVID, he got the monoclonal antibodies when they were still in trial. Not taking the vaccine and dying is for the political pawns, not the puppet-masters.

[@kidlifecrisis9927]

@Moose moose Jesus, get help.

[@alexisarrizon6083]

@Moose moose FACTS 100 million people are just dumb enough to trust the Us government aka the largest terrorist organization in the world.

[@BD-np6bv]

They refuse to speak to reporters.

[@phoenixsoar908]

Thank you for a well done representation of what we do in the covid ICU.

[@iamsherlocked345]

I can’t imagine dealing with this all day…. I’m exhausted from all the anti vaccine stuff and I don’t even work in the medical field. I’m vaccinated and for the past 18 months have only left the house for work or the store.

[@shortmeister4321]

To all of the people working to save our lives-Thank you and God bless and keep you safe. I'm so sorry you've been put through this horrible nightmare. Especially now, when vaccines are free and available to everyone. It's unbelievable that we've gone from a society of intelligence and compassion, to this...Prayers for you to have the strength to carry on.🙏💗🙏

[@MrDogonjon]

I have heard it from them so I am going to say it for them... keep your stupid prayers and make sure every one around you is vaccinated, wearing a mask and believing this is a real pandemic and it is still getting worse

[@jt8142]

@Mary Carroll Who hurt you? I’m sorry you’ve been abused and were unable to get the proper mental health and education you required.

[@aidanking9070]

Maybe this is bad to think but if people aren't willing to get vaccinated maybe they should be a lower priority for treatment then people who didn't have a choice to be in the hospital..

[@238scott238]

Yea. Same with smokers and fat people

[@abbyrnviloria603]

I am not gonna lie, i feel bad for thinking the same😞 we are exhausted… but we have obligation as human being to treat all the same when they set foot in ER. I am angry for the misinformations , angry to anti maskers, anti vaccine but i surrendered. Focus now is to stay safe and healthy so i can help my colleagues 😞😞😞

[@SDGreg]

@@238scott238 You would have a point if smokers and fat people have regularly caused delay of treatments of other patients but that isn't the case.

[@codent]

vaccinated people have a better chance of survival, so it's perfectly normal to take that into consideration.

[@0xsergy]

@@238scott238 I've said that for years. And smokers definitely get lower priority in everything so yeah, sounds fair.

[@gamecrusher2024]

Hospitals should make other patients a priority over someone that didn't want to get vaccinated and contracted COVID. Like the person mentioned here with Colon Cancer.

[@res1492]

agreed

[@MrDogonjon]

there are patients suing hospitals to give them Ivermectin... Hospitals don't prescribe drugs, doctors do and no doctors are prescribing Ivermectin because it does not work and will kill people, it is horse wormer/ insecticide. No dosing regimen exists only quackery.

[@wandafoley5832]

Agreed

[@combatduckie]

i fully agree.

[@estherthorp1608]

Thank you all healthcare workers

[@ruthgoff3540]

God bless all the medical professionals around the world.🙏🏼

[@TakeATrip.]

This is beautiful to watch. This is my life at work. Thank you to everyone that has been vaccinated and/or thinking about getting vaccinated. It is extended hard to go on like this as an ICU nurse. I pray that this virus releases its strong grip so death will no longer reign supreme in our world 🙏🏾

[@alydiahoward8978]

Amen

[@rogercarlson2330]

I was one of them people that was totally against the vaccine, my family works in Healthcare from laboratory scientist, to surgeons etc. They are working doubles, stressed, and I'm like wtf am I doing. They can't talk about it because of the rules but I think more people need to see things like this. It woke me up. I'm a proud vaccinated person now. Thank you to all of our Frontline medical workers.

[@punkgrl325]

Thanks for doing your part! 🙏

[@alydiahoward8978]

Thank you. God bless

[@TerryInUSA]

@@alydiahoward8978 Yes!

[@patriciajohnone]

What happens with trauma patients, heart attack strokes? How do they receive care if the hopital is filled with Covid patients? Covid patients need to go to a COVID facility, field hospital. There are other people with severe conditions that still need medical treatment, and should NOT be put off due to covid patients.

[@eileenstewart9866]

As a cardiac RN we get overloaded with sicker patients-five patients to juggle-fresh out of bypass surgery or thoracic surgery patients or a fresh heart catheterization or a chest pain patient with less support ( help gets sent to covid units) It’s dangerous and makes us so exhausted and discouraged

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

Eileen, I desperately need a hip replacement and if the hospital finally approves it, do I need to worry about the lack of nurses?

[@eileenstewart9866]

@@sarcasticallyrearranged I think you will be fine-orthopedic units I’ve seen won’t perform surgeries unless staffing is in place as it’s “elective” sending you speedy healing and good luck

[@MrDogonjon]

The price we pay for "on demand" healthcare means more people die needlessly due to the stupidity and selfishness of others. We can not deny this is a right. Stupid people matter too.,

[@goldenshine9434]

What happens is they are turned away. Many die a preventable death because because there is no room. The unvaccinated are killing people that don’t even have Covid.

[@jeffmartin9212]

How can you deny this? There’s no spin possible at the front lines.

[@jstravelers4094]

The USA has become a giant Jonestown. Instead of getting vaccinated, people are guzzling Kool-aid.

[@darkprince56]

You know, you can actually go to the health and human services website and look for the hospital utilization page and check nationwide or state ICUs. In Oregon for example, 32.37% of ICU beds are taken by covid patients. It’s 30.22% in the country. All this fear-mongering and propaganda for a virus that has a 98% survival rate.

[@strnglhld]

@@darkprince56 most people who talk about the survival rate are obese, why is that?

[@nomisunrider6472]

@@darkprince56 30 percent? It should be zero. If you just buckled down and vaccinated it would be, but you’d rather that elderly and disabled people die than admit you’re wrong. One day it will be you on that ICU bed, weak and vulnerable, and I hope people give you the same consideration you gave them.

[@darkprince56]

Nomi Sunrider I don’t rather they dîê, actually. I’m not going to pańįć over a 2% fâtałity rate or get a vaccine that was incredibly rushed and is being pushed by people who stand to profit (and they are raking in the billions).

[@SuzanneDeniseB]

Thank you to all the people working behind the scenes. You are greatly appreciated. Sending love ❤

[@gwenrenee8641]

It clearly appears that they are less motivated and less grief struck this go round because it could have been prevented.

[@laceybanter5937]

And a lot of them say it's because of the patient's age. It's one thing to hold the hand of a dying 70 year old patient but quite another when they are close to your age and have younger children. Knowing it can happen to you. They can see the train coming as they stand on these tracks. It is heart breaking.

[@joanbeauregard9338]

I suspect they are just exhausted

[@pjk1714]

Exhausted and frustrated

[@0xsergy]

Why would you be motivated to work when your population is full of literal Neanderthals?

[@blkbks13]

It's called burn out. They have been doing this for over a year now. You can only take so much.

[@thedonleroy]

God Bless all of the heroes & angels at the hospitals that are doing a wonderful job despite what they have to deal with. Thanks to all the Doctors, Nurses, & other support staff at these hospitals.

[@cathychase663]

OH my gosh! You are amazing! I am an Oregon resident! I am vaxxed but a teacher and just emailed my primary care about getting a booster as I am scared.

[@gwenrenee8641]

Are They insured or are we footing bill for their selfish irresponsibility. I hear in the tune of their voices a less than compassionate response to this situation. Folks could have prevented some of this by being vaccinated and here we are overwhelmed because of folks ill informed selfish choices.

[@lexyswope]

And premiums in general will increase.

[@jt8142]

@Mary Carroll There you go again, making up another one of your stories. Time to get back on your meds.

[@shawnfredrick308]

My heart goes out to ALL the medical personnel giving all they can day in and day out, of themselves to try to save people. Ignorance and selfishness KILL!

[@geraldboykin6159]

Bio-Hijacker without gun!

[@darkprince56]

It has a 98% survival rate

[@darkprince56]

Kris B do you have an actual counter argument or nah?

[@snidelywhiplash]

@@darkprince56 If you had a 2% chance of dying or 10% chance of life-long injury every time you got in the car, you'd never leave the house.

[@tinadkuper]

Bless nurses and doctors for your courageous acts of kindness, dedication..you are Angels

[@vichernandez6206]

I lost by best friend to Covid a few weeks ago. It saddens me to see him and many others pass away from this virus. To those reading my comment, please stay safe and God bless.

[@cinderbliss]

Vaccines were available a few weeks ago.

[@devonk298]

Non vax patients should be placed at the end of the line for beds.

[@combatduckie]

I fully agree.

[@headerahelix]

Thank you to all doctors and nurses fighting this for all of us.

[@looking4things669]

If you don't "believe" in the vaccine for yourself do it for the doctors and nurses and those without covid who also need their care. It's just not fair.

[@markjohnson8824]

Are the doctors going to pay if I have a stroke from the vaccine?

[@ceceliasheart]

@@markjohnson8824 then sign over your healthcare rights. You get sick you stay home don’t come to the hospital. Problem solved.

[@lynguy439]

@@markjohnson8824 good question

[@luniers4629]

Can we all just agree we are causing massive trauma to all these doctors and nurses?

[@paulinegray6447]

Drs and nurses are definitely the real heroes in this pandemic Thank you

[@MrDogonjon]

No... they are victims the post traumatic stress of the trauma ward pales to the covid ward where people who should not be there are there dying for no reason... not heros... martyrs to a cause they don't believe.... they just aren't dead enough yet.

[@caroljohnstone497]

This piece was so well-produced. Thank you. Was enlightening to spend more time and go deeper into what these hospitals are experiencing. Wonder what it will be like a month from now?

[@killereverb3928]

Another liberal hit piece. Getting sick and tired of angry judgmental medical staff. Stfu and deliver medical care. That’s your job. Not to stand in judgment of people for whatever reason.

[@pjk1714]

More triage like Baton Rouge..send home

[@shooster5884]

@@killereverb3928 You obviously didn't listen to what those staff members said. I suggest you volunteer to do their job. All are very caring people. One of them will be the only person holding your hand if you end up in an an ICU and dying alone. And I say that as a non vaccinated person but taking alternative measures and all precautions to not become an additional burden on their workload. You are a seriously pathetic human being to blame and put down hospital staff.

[@deeb3077]

Whats the name of the hospital, do you know ?

[@shaz8486]

@@killereverb3928 get vaccinated then they won’t be getting sick and tired of treating UNVACCINATED PEOPLE ! Yes it’s their choice but if I was working under conditions like these medical staff for this long now I would be fed up and quitting because you can never change stupid, they do it to themselves and taking away from others that just as rightly need other medical care but missing out because people won’t get vaccinated…… I personally think their tolerance of these people is extremely high, why don’t you go do the job mmmmm ?????

[@amkenkentable]

Watching this brought back so many memories from this past January when we watched my FIL pass away from COVID at a hospital 3 hours away because no hospitals closer had any open beds. We made the drive every day for a week so we could be with him when he woke or be by his side when he passed. His doctors and nurses were so wonderful. Every single one was so kind to us and worked so hard to make him comfortable.

[@dawnjones3148]

My heart goes out for the hospital staff!

[@sigsin1]

Agree. The hospitals should be for covid patients who are fully vaccinated…the breakthrough cases…and for people with other serious illnesses or who need emergency surgery. That might sound callous but if people are not going to care for themselves enough to try to prevent getting covid, they shouldn’t be allowed to put other people’s lives in danger.

[@shays7771]

Why would fully vaccinated ppl need to be in hospital, if the vaccine works??? And your recommendation is called discrimination. I am an ICU nurse and I treat all my patients equally, because all lives matter to me and to the other nurses I work with.

[@strnglhld]

@@shays7771 I already called you out on another post for lying about being an ICU nurse. You’re spreading lies like you spread COVID.

[@strnglhld]

@Jesus is coming back Let me guess you’re on HermanCainAward

[@juliaf_]

@@shays7771 no vaccine is 100% perfect. If you're truly an ICU nurse, you'd know this thoroughly. There is no scientifically valid reason to refuse the vaccines whatsoever for the vast majority of people who do. Obviously you we can't turn away antivaxers, but it's looking pretty damn tempting.

[@aaroniousairlines9949]

Hmm should we discriminate against the Covid patient who refused the vaccine? Or the pancreatic cancer patient who refused to take care of their type 2 diabetes? Decisions decisions

[@kryptonarie6367]

As a retired respiratory therapist I've witnessed many-many people die, but I can't imagine how overwhelming it must be now for the ER, critical care and floor staff seeing so many "preventable" covid-19 deaths!?! Stay strong hospital staff, you are all loved!

[@cathyburnett2067]

The very sad thing is patients that have cancer have to wait to have their surgery. Elective surgery is on hold. Doctors and nurses are too busy with COVID patients. All because people won’t wear a mask, people won’t get vaccinated. People are coming in with advanced cancer.

[@shelleyg1836]

i know of a man 41 with a young child age 3 who died waiting for his defibulator surgery for his heart condition. when life saving surguries are cancelled because ppl refuse to take a pandemic seriously and follow the rules, get vaccinated, wear masks, etc its extremely upsetting yet those same ppl will run to the hospital when they get covid begging for treatment. they keep passing the virus around allowing it to continue mutating and innocent ppl keep dying.

[@anothergoldilocks1077]

I’m a Moderna fully vaccinated retired person who is living in chronic orthopedic pain since January. Awaiting major elective surgery time at a teaching university medical center 4 hours drive from me. This will require a 2-3 night post-op hospital stay. I was hoping to have surgery in mid-October. However, at this time I still don’t have a surgery date and I’m unsure when one will become available. Everyday i have renewed hope that this is the day the the surgery scheduler will call me with the surgery date. The reason for the delay is the fact that the medical center is bursting at the seams with both ICU & non-ICU COVID Delta Variant patients taking up bed space that would otherwise be available for elective surgical patients. 😵‍💫. smh 🤦‍♀️

[@niclewis9731]

That’s horrible, the non vaccinated should be made to wait back of the que

[@nicholeparrish5253]

I have so much respect for these nurses and all hospital staff... hope you all get much needed rest when you go home.. thank you for everything you all do!!! 💚

[@MissMerc007]

Thank you for sharing this story. I was intubated and on the ventilator put in a coma, with very little chance of survival (asthmatic) but I was one of the lucky ones to survive. Thank you to all the nurses that took care of us in the ICU and out of ICU. And all nurses helping other patients. You are my angels. You saved my life. My country still doesn't have enough vaccines. We were desperate for our vax because I'm an asthmatic. We booked our appointment as soon as the gov let us (mid July 2021) but the wait is 7-9 weeks or longer in Japan. Some of my friends have their first appointment in November or December. Unfortunately I caught it before I could get my first shot. I hope they can make the vaccine more accessible to all. Japan is lagging behind. I'm still in hospital. But out of the ICU now. I'll be here for probably 8 weeks.

[@pringlw]

I recently wasted energy trying to convince an anti-vaxxer I know to get the jab. Like talking to a brick wall.

[@puffthemagicdragon9534]

I took Ivermectin at the outset, and I’m fine. How can that be? Do some homework.

[@edwinhof2090]

I drank my own urine in the morning! It was a miracle!

[@andyv8889]

@@puffthemagicdragon9534 tell your denier friends that your poop contains concentrated metabolized ivermectin that is extra potent and that you can bottle a special edition for them.

[@puffthemagicdragon9534]

@@andyv8889 - you must believe that, because you ate it all up. Now, you must not need the jab.

[@puffthemagicdragon9534]

@@edwinhof2090 Did Fauci tell you that would work?

[@cringecrew101asmr8]

Wish this video came out in early may or late April. I lost a really good friend to covid only 6 days after getting sick. She suffered a pulmonary embolism. Covid gave her deadly blood clots. I’m still sad to this day about it. Her husband spent 3 months in the hospital from covid and miraculously survived. Still a hard time for sure.

[@Free-g8r]

@Mary Carroll peanuts have killed more people than the vaccines ever will

[@justjane1639]

@Mary Carroll My family has a history of blood clots on both sides. I had the J&J shot months ago, with absolutely no side effects. I'd rather not end up on a ventilator or with "long COVID."

[@0xsergy]

@Mary Carroll source?

[@MaryP2024]

Thank you all!!!! God Bless You!

[@anniel.3396]

And then if the patient is 300 lbs and needs to be flipped, you may need more than 3 people.

[@ColtraneAndRain]

Typically 5 people.

[@anniel.3396]

@@ColtraneAndRain right and then there are all the times they need to be changed/turned/repositioned.

[@pjk1714]

Not all hospital have hydraulic lifts to help staff.

[@mitzloo1933]

Because that needed to be said 😒

[@0xsergy]

@@mitzloo1933 it's back breaking work for the hospital workers, ofcourse it needs to be mentioned.

[@mprime1716]

Very genuine content. I am beyond grateful for these amazing humans taking care of covid patients. It takes a lot of compassion to care for the unvaccinated. I think of them when I put my mask on and know that we are all trying to save lives. I was proud the day I was fully vaccinated. Thank you health service workers!

[@ashleygannon1596]

Yet we celebrate obesity which has been a pandemic for decades.

[@mprime1716]

@@ashleygannon1596 Ya. Cuz obesity has everything to do with Covid, right? lol

[@middleagemuscle7064]

I went and got vaccinated. I would rather have a horn growing out of my head than to be hooked up to a ventilator.

[@cheskal]

That's awesome. Thank you!

[@justjane1639]

Yeah--but I'm kind of bummed that I can't hang a fork from my nose like that delusional doctor (?) who warned vaccinations would cause you to become magnetic. :-D

[@janiehill4256]

Well, I’ve had 2 shots and am quite disappointed that I DONT have a horn growing my head.!

[@ccrusat]

Although this is a serious situation, I appreciate the levity. I could actually use an extra arm or two... :)

[@g3user1usa]

A vaccination shot worth $50 or five days in the ICU that costs $50,000? It seems like a no-brainer to me. I'm not judging a person's choice, I'm just looking at it from my perspective. What's really upsetting is that beds are being filled up with COVID-19 patients and people with other illnesses are being neglected or so they say. I'm glad I don't work in a hospital at this point in time. It would be very frustrating not being able to save so many people day after day. It must almost feel you're just fighting a losing battle as a doctor or nurse. Getting a jab in the arm is easy. Fighting for survival in an ICU is hard. Please re-examine your choices.

[@weddletina777]

Thank you for reporting this! We are exhausted!

[@cinderbliss]

You're not doing enough. Get back to work!

[@mattfitzpatrick4008]

Thank you so much to all healthcare workers for everything that you do!!! You are saints. Take care of yourselves.

[@Preservestlandry]

Since you can make people wait, you need to make unvaxed Covid patients wait. They need a Covid ICU, and when it's full, the covidiots can wait. A regular ICU for everyone else.

[@pjk1714]

It's hard to tell if someone won't become positive while in care. Seeing it here while attempting to relieve backlogs of surgery

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

If it were up to me, I’d turn away unvaccinated patients to prioritize the people who actually need the ICUs.

[@79Bobola]

Such a hero…. I’ve never heard such a unique comment like yours, you’re so interesting and so very brave….

[@annmariek5537]

I have worked in hospitals, including the ICU, for 31 years, and I have never seen patients like these before. Over and over again the same story - once they get to ICU in the inflammatory phase of this disease, there is almost nothing that can be done to stop it. We all fight to find something to do, some way to bring them back, almost always to no avail. I have also seen the suffering of my coworkers who have struggled, risked their lives to help others, watched patient after patient die, all while horribly understaffed. Beyond the immediate toll of Covid is the toll taken on healthcare workers who are burned out, suffering from PTSD, leaving the field in mass numbers. Who will care for the sick in the years to come? Who will care for the walking wounded who care for you and your loved ones?

[@Jc4elayne]

Thank you for showing everyone the reality of Covid and what healthcare providers experience every day.

[@paulkoester9242]

I am fully vaccinated. But this story should be told. Day in and day out on tv radio. Phones. People think they are invinceable until they get sick and die. People who refuse to get vaccinated are just plain ignorant of the truth about this horrid disease. Why are people being so plain. Stupid and don.t care about their fellow neighbors. To save theirs and other people's lives.

[@sunangel-rivka]

The comment section here is truly frightening. I shudder to think what the future holds. I used to wonder how it could be that a Dark Age could come after a period of great learning and knowledge. I don't wonder anymore...😪

[@VoluptuousDonnaRae]

@Angelika Rawks I do agree and I'm really worried about the future, and it looks like there's no going back to the great times we had.

[@VoluptuousDonnaRae]

@@bobcatblues7766 Can you just imagine what things will be like in only 20 years from now, man that's a scary thought. I will go look up that documentary right now thanks so much.

[@deeb3077]

Gods word tells us clearly what the future holds.

[@0xsergy]

If this is what happens when we ask people to put on a mask imagine what happens when we tell them they gotta stop burning fossil fuels? Humanity is truly done.

[@bobbinsew]

@@0xsergy totally agree, and to be honest, we deserve it, we’ve done this to ourselves

[@kerirhinehart6346]

Thank you health workers!!! You are all the true heroes. God bless.

[@georgeredbranch652]

A sad thanks from a nurse in Australia. I can't say more without getting angry, and l have to work tonight.

[@bobbinsew]

Sending virtual hugs across the pond from a grateful to be fully vaxxed NZer.

[@kathrynbeecher2963]

Quarantine unvaccinated Covid patients in emergency mobile units staffed by National Guard medics to provide comfort care. Open our hospitals and free up our medical professionals to treat patients who are proactive participants in defending and maintaining their health. I mean, what's the point in paying for medical insurance if we can't even access necessary treatment when we need it?

[@dawnjones3148]

The wars didn’t even do this to the medical profession!

[@bboy6791]

Two word. ROLLING STONES. the magazine. The story they did on a hospital over run with ivermectin poisoning was false. So false other news agency’s ran the story. You see why people have vaccine hesitancy. Can blame the people cause you agree with something. Some people do their research and go with that. With that you should respect it.

[@0xsergy]

@@bboy6791 why would you consider the rolling stone, a rock magazine, to be a source of credible medical information? Lmao.

[@bboy6791]

@@0xsergy your missing the point. They’re spreading false information.

[@0xsergy]

@@bboy6791 it's a rock magazine, you may as well ask a homeless man what his opinion on investing is.

[@bboy6791]

@@0xsergy not the point. Do you know what it’s like to have a positive covid test. Last year in March I tested positive. All that was offered to me was to go home and quarantine for 14 days. No treatment nothing. To go to the ER if condition get worse. Talk about panic. Now there is treatment to prevent condition to worsen if symptomatic. Rolling stone is a publication read by many. The point is they wrote an article on a treatment regimen for symptomatic patients that was false. Again. I’m not against vaccination. I recommend it. I was vaxxed in July. All I’m saying people spread lies and misinformation. If you don’t get it. I can’t help you. You do you.

[@genshindragonnest]

I really pity the nurses. The unvaccinated ones not so much.

[@mchobbit2951]

I don't need your pity. I'm healthy and want to stay that way, not vaccine damaged.

[@combatduckie]

@@mchobbit2951 i think something in the upper part of your body is already severely "damaged". In case you get covid, please stay AT HOME instead of going to a hospital and thus taking away an ICU bed from a colon caner patient! Thank you.

[@mchobbit2951]

@@combatduckie Good luck with your endless boosters, the hospital is the last place I'd want to go anyway. Are you telling all the smokers and drinkers to also stay home rather than take a bed for someone who is sick out of no fault of their own?

[@sjaw100]

Hospitals should not penalized those law abiding and vaccinated patients. They should get priority medical attention. Where is your conscience letting them die over those stubborn and unvaccinated patients. Why are you doing that? You are only encouraging the unvaccinated who will come running to the crowded hospitals when they are struck with COVID-19!

[@cruiseservices4922]

Thank You for highlighting our line of works…. Compassion fatigued is REAL

[@lypscratch]

Beautiful, heartbreaking reporting. Thank you.

[@jwilcox4726]

Makes me so sick to be a retired disabled nurse and not be able to go down there and volunteer. This is so tragic to have to deal with this when they could have LIVED. Please other American people get the SHOTS hurry. Peace.

[@shelleyg1836]

i'm a former disabled RPN with a son who is an RN who is doing the job of 3 to 4 ppl in a community nursing agency because there aren't enough skilled nurses available. he is only 29 and fighting burn out stress and mild depression already with many of the nurses he graduated with already talking quitting and leaving nursing due to covid. it is dreadful seeing what we are putting our medical ppl thru and then u have the anti vaxxers who soon as they are sick run right to the hospital for treatment. makes me want to scream and beat heads together.I'm in canada where 80% or close to it are fully vaccinated nation wide but like everywhere we have those who are irrational stupid and idiotic and won't take the vaccine. I am horrified by what i am seeing in the usa. there has to be a line drawn somewhere they a certain number of beds are for non covid related emergencies and those vaccinated and leave it a crap shoot for those who refuse for the beds that are left. stupid shouldn't be rewarded while safe gets u dead for lack of a bed.

[@trv4926]

I feel so sad for the staff; they are true warriors!

[@phyllisstrider2998]

I can't understand if people watch this and still don't get vaccinated. I have had mine. I want to live. I don't want to be that sick. I have tried to get my son's and their wives to get the vaccine. They act like because they are healthy they will be ok. Worried about long term effect of vaccine. I tell them there may not be a long term if they don't get vaccinated. 😢😷

[@didirobert3657]

Some people are listening to Fox News, and other right wing people, who have made this all about politics. They insist that mask mandates violate their rights, much less vaccine mandates. I got my vaccine as soon as I could as well. Can you imagine all the people who were dying of the Spanish Flu, who would have give anything to have a vaccine against it? Oh, if you live in Oregon, some anti-vaxxers may be more what I would describe as "hippie dippy" types who believe that vaccines are not natural. They have had outbreaks of things like Rubella and mumps, from parents who think this way, in areas of OR like Ashland. It's sad. Not getting vaccinated is ignorant. Do you remember people and little kids with leg braces, because of polio?

[@macmcleod1188]

For every person that ICU, they have in icu (309), they have 3 more hospitalized (1172). Since the video, it's gotten worse but it does appear to be topping out right now.

[@kenyonbissett3512]

My cousin and his daughter are both Drs. My wonderful cousin is an anesthesiologist, Medical Professor and is hospitalized with a blood clot, exhausted from 18 months on the Covid front line. His daughter also on the Covid hospital front line got Covid after 8 months of treating Covid patients. She has Covid long haulers and can’t practice medicine, she is to ill. Please get vaccinated! Help and protect our health care workers! Over a 3,600 USA 🇺🇸 Drs, nurses, and other health professionals have died from COVID as of May 1, 2021. This doesn’t count those who have long haulers or other damage from Covid rendering them unable to practice medicine.

[@shavonstevens2260]

My boss has cancer and to think that she may not be able to get the care she needs bc these ignorant people won’t get vaccinated is absolutely maddening and it’s not fair

[@skylights2379]

Thank you for showing this.

[@mexicantextiles6093]

thank you, it is heartbreaking to see this happening, but those doctors and nurses and medical staff are real heroes!

[@kimnoble9434]

Insurance companies could help by doubling the premium for those who are not vaccinated unless they have a doctors order. Someone is going to have to pay these have 50 hospital bills and it will result in everyone’s premiums going up. So the burden needs to be placed on the unvaccinated and they need to be held accountable. Hospitals also have to prioritize people who are vaccinated in other cases over Covid patients.

[@JT-py7ze]

Until you go through a DNR with a loved one you can never know what it's really like. And yes I have, thank God my loved one lived. It was my ultimate decision to end my loved ones life. So heart breaking that people are dieing because of being stubborn about the vaccine. The toll this is taking on health care workers is huge

[@mikewalton6856]

I’m fortunate that my mother went from an RN to a professor of nursing a few years ago. But she’s still close to some of the action as she has students do on the field training. Every Dr or nurse I see, I see my mom. They’re hero’s. All of em. And as for the ones who burnt out and left the profession…I do not blame them at all.

[@AnElectricHorseSocorro]

They should make regular patients the priority, Covid unvaccinated should have to wait.

[@Archpope]

@10:14 "dead set" well that's an accurate choice of words.

[@suegurney4666]

Your efforts are never wasted .Health care workers are the angels of this world and your example will live on beyond this pandemic . Besides getting vaccinated how can we help?

[@MrDogonjon]

Stop praying that didn't work... put your own energy into fasting avoiding all contact with people...

[@caangngungkulanpoek1604]

Why blown up, because they are arogant or foolish,your freedom and right has limit, the limit is the safety of others, the comunity church, work, sport club etc, your family, your friends . Your responsibility is get vaccinated, wear mask, keep distance, avoid mob, often wash hand, that will help to stop covid19 spreading.

[@stormchasingirl1133]

People sadly have made this political and now we have this. So sad. Thanks to all my fellow healthcare providers!

[@chicagomusicguide]

Thank you for your wonderful reporting on this and thanks to all the doctors and nurses who sacrificed so much to get us through this devastating time of our lives.

[@thecelticchristiantraditio4750]

I am so sorry. I got vaccinated the first chance I got as did my husband.