Itâll probably be some time before I get back to my Jock Series so have the Dilfs in the meantime â¨
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And so it begins *takes drag of cigarette* ( WIP )
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Kiskujesz sie czy trzeba z tb chodziÄ??????
MoĹźemy chodziÄ i siÄ kiskowaÄ ;)
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they will be wed in spring
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My full dimileth illustration for Mo Ghra
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The Meeting on the Turret Stairs
Original: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton.
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David Mack at BuzzFeed News:Â
In Chicago, patients are being treated in hospital hallways and in office chairs.
In Farmington, New Mexico, military reinforcements have been deployed in civilian hospitals from over 700 miles away in San Diego.
And in Paterson, New Jersey, nonemergency surgeries have been canceled. A gallbladder condition that might typically require removal? Try antibiotics first. A bone fracture for which you might normally go under the knife? Letâs put you in a cast and crutches for a bit to see how you fare.
âYou donât really have to invoke crisis standards of care to be delivering crisis standards of care,â said Anand Swaminathan, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Patersonâs St. Josephâs University Medical Center. âItâs an enormous challenge to render care to as many patients as we can right now.â
This is America in the Omicron wave. US hospitals and their staff are currently being tested in new and challenging ways that are unlike previous surges in the pandemic, medical workers across the country told BuzzFeed News. Patients who might normally be admitted for observation are being sent home to keep beds available. Others are waiting 10 hours or more in emergency rooms to be seen, before perhaps giving up and walking out altogether.
Reaching the breaking point is a deceptively slow process, but little by little Swaminathan said his hospital and others are losing the things they need to keep running effectively. âThis collapse is not going to be like an armageddon. Itâs not going to happen all at once,â he said. âItâs going to be fairly silent, and people arenât going to realize it until they call 911 and no one comes.â
As Omicron spreads, COVID cases are surging at record levels in all 50 states. But given the relative mildness of the variant for most people, especially the vaccinated, Anthony Fauci and others have said it is now more relevant to pay closer attention to hospitalization data than total case numbers. Yet, that too is alarming. More than 147,000 people are currently in US hospitals with COVID â more than at any point in the pandemic to date. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday that the seven-day average of hospital admissions had risen 33% over the prior week to about 19,800 per day.
Importantly, those figures include people with an incidental case of COVID, meaning they came to be treated for something else and were found to also be positive for the virus. But while that may sound less worrying, it can be deceiving. COVID may be exacerbating some peopleâs underlying health issues and, crucially, the net effect on hospitals is the same: more patients taking up more beds and requiring special isolation and safety protocols so as not to infect others.
While new studies are showing Omicron is less severe and requires hospital stays about 70% shorter than Delta on average, the incredibly transmissible variant is still spreading like wildfire, including among children, who are being admitted to hospitals with COVID at record rates. âThe risk of hospitalization remains low, especially among people who are up to date on their COVID vaccines,â Walensky said Wednesday. âHowever, the staggering rise in cases â over 1 million new cases each day â has led to a high number of total hospitalizations.â
All this while more and more medical workers are themselves testing positive and being forced to the sidelines, leaving their colleagues â at least, those who havenât left the profession altogether due to burnout â straining to treat the patients turning up in droves in their emergency rooms with COVID, yes, but also for any other medical condition or traumatic injury.
The cruel irony, then, is that what appears to be the mildest widespread variant of the coronavirus is the one that risks toppling the US hospital system.
âBefore this if you had an acute life- or limb-threatening medical issue and you went to an emergency department in America, you would have a promise that it would be quickly taken care of,â said Gabe Gao, an ER physician at St. Lukeâs Hospital in New Bedford, Massachusetts. âI donât think we can keep that promise right now.â
Not every hospital is currently facing a crunch. Some that previously experienced huge waves are holding steady â for now. âIn the first wave, I had 400 patients with COVID, now we have 100,â said Aaron Glatt, chair of the department of medicine at Mount Sinai South Nassau on Long Island, New York. âWe have better treatments, we have a better understanding of the virus, but at the same time, two months ago I had 10 patients with COVID.â
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