Georgia short of intensive care nurses as winter threatens surge of coronavirus cases

[tulipsandroses]

Meanwhile asshole Kemp is still against masks. Tell me why these republicans should not be sued for negligence? at minimum?
And another reason why the herd immunity plan is so dumb and dangerous. We don't have the manpower to take care of the number of people that will get sick.

As Georgia braces for a cold-weather coronavirus surge that could collide with the flu and send patients flooding into hospitals, facilities across the state are worried they don’t have enough nurses to treat their sickest patients.

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Now, with the coronavirus widespread in Georgia and across the nation, hospitals are competing for a shrinking pool of nurses.

“Right now, it’s just a national market, because I think all the hospitals across the country are recruiting the same nurses,” said Richard Lamphier, a pediatric registered nurse and president of the Georgia Nurses Association.

For Augusta University, newly minted nurses from local schools are crucial. But to also get experienced nurses, the health system has begun hiring from the Philippines, part of a plan set in motion last year. “The demand is just greater than the supply” said Laura Brower, chief nursing officer of AU.

‘They’re scared’

The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the profession. Some nurses have died. Others fell sick and recovered but spent weeks off work. Others decided they’d just had enough.

Dana Horton, a radiology registered nurse at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and the local union director for National Nurses United, said that after a long lull at the hospital, COVID-19 numbers are ticking back up, creating new fears about adequate personal protective equipment and staffing.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Short of ER nurses, doctors, techs--even at the biggest & academic center hospitals

Those in Atlanta will know which one I'm referring--and they are doing NOTHING as staff with COVID_19 long hauler syndrome struggle to come back to work with residual fatigue and decreased lung capacity. Yet with more patients and less staff to manage and help them.

This after it has been revealed that Kemp pressed for new case numbers to be purposely limited during the last days of the election, though in truth, they were surging.

I can not say here what I truly feel about Kemp and his utter failure to deal with COVID-19 in GA, but the response borders on mass murder, IMO.