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Posted on 08/30/2021 7:25:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - In July 2020, WCTV reported at the peak of the COVID pandemic, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital’s COVID unit had 68 patients.
Fast forward to March 2021, when WCTV reported that TMH was not caring for a single COVID patient.
But just five months later, our community is dealing with a new, very grim reality.
COVID hospitalizations keep rising, multiple COVID deaths are a daily occurrence and it’s pushing our local healthcare systems and employees to the edge.
For the past few weeks, WCTV has given viewers daily COVID hospital stats.
On Monday, August 30, TMH had 130 COVID patients.
But a local TMH ER nurse says the numbers aren’t resonating.
Neither is fighting over masks, vaccines and misinformation.
That’s why last week, she wrote a post on Facebook giving people a glimpse at her reality which means it’s also our reality.
When it comes to COVID-19, TMH ER nurse Megan Dunaway isn’t asking you to pick a side. But she is asking you to listen.
“I had 10 shifts. 10 COVID patients. All 10 are dead. All 10 were unvaccinated. All 10 were men. And all 10 had no comorbidities,” Dunaway said.
And that was enough.
A boiling point that lead this 18-year ICU/ER nurse to write her thoughts down on Facebook.
“It just came over me, the devastation that I’ve seen and the need to, want to honor all the patients that have died at my hands, and to honor the staff that I work with and to honor my children, who do not have the same mom that they did a month ago,” Dunaway said.
Dunaway said it wasn’t always like this. But a new year brought a new strain of COVID, the Delta variant.
“I’m terrified for our community. I’m not terrified to be at work. I feel as safe as I can be. I’m not terrified out in the community for myself. But I’m terrified for our community because we are dying off drastically. Drastically dying off and it makes no sense to what I have been taught as a nurse. This makes no sense to me, that a virus could kill a normal, healthy, 40-year-old person that had nothing underlying,” Dunaway
But they are.
TMH reopened its COVID unit in July 2021. That month, they had seven COVID deaths.
As of August 30, 2021, with one more day in the month to go, TMH has seen 67 people died of COVID-19.
Hundreds more have been hospitalized.
What we’re seeing is vaccinated patients do come in here with COVID, but they survive. Unvaccinated patients are coming in and they’re not surviving,” Dunaway said.
She said this is pushing Tallahassee’s hospitals to the brink.
“Our system is overwhelmed and our triage nurses are overwhelmed by the amount of people that are coming in. Our waiting rooms are overflowing. We’ve had to rearrange things daily to decide where are we putting sick symptoms, where are we putting the people that are coming in with the heart attacks to keep them away from the COVID patients, where are we putting COVID positive, that we know are COVID positive versus the people that are coming in symptomatic that we don’t want to sit with the COVID positive, but they can’t sit with the other, non-COVID emergencies,” Dunaway said.
Dunaway said TMH’s ICU, COVID unit and ERs are a daily medical chess match, but the pieces are patients with less room to spare every day.
How many are illegal immigrants?
Nope. Not in the last 2 months of a dataset. I was saying the majority of COVID deaths historically are amongst the unvaxxed.
We have fewer hospital beds because some of the staff never returned after the shutdown and some of the current employees are quitting rather than get vaccinated. They have closed entire floors in some places because of staff shortages. This is why the hospitals are “full.”
Thanks for the worldometer link. Looks like this peak has similar height to previous two, but thinner.
No antibody treatments? No ivermectin?
I don’t believe a word of this. Same idiots who are ALL calling Ivermectin “horse de-wormer”, when they were ALL calling it a “treatment” just months ago. They will say anything to defeat DeSantis, who absolutely terrifies them.
As I wrote elsewhere, many older leftists from New York, New Jersey, etc. now moving to Florida bringing their diseases/medical conditions with them, including COVID.
Ban all New Yorkers from coming into the state, along with the feds placing illegal aliens in it, and you should see a dramatic dropping in COVID cases.
How about foreign visitors? Does anyone test everyone entering the US/state?
This virus is a mixture of every condition you could receive from an epidemic, from un-noticed infections to fatalities, aided by reactions to vaccines (and pre-existing medical conditions, esp. obesity and alcoholism).
My solution would be to ban any Democrat from coming into the state. They are a deadly disease of the body and mind just because of their existence.
In another sign that the virus has yet to subside — the highly infectious delta variant is the dominant strain — 16.8% of COVID-19 tests came back positive over the past week.
From my understanding, this is speculation. The normal tests don’t show which variant there is infecting someone.
Looking at the graphs I am reminded that aerial spraying of the virus is quite effective at keeping the numbers up.. Now where is the horse stuff ?
Every single day will bring a new “high” until there are literally zero new deaths if all you are looking at is the total number of deaths. That is simply logic and means nothing at all.
This article was written in a way as to suggest that the daily/weekly number of new deaths is increasing, when it is now dropping rapidly. Thus, the article is misleading, because it makes it appear that the rate at which people are dying right now is still going up when the opposite is happening.
You seem fixated on total numbers over the course of the entire pandemic which tell you nothing about the current state of the pandemic in FL. That that number keeps going up merely indicates that the death rate from the disease in FL is not zero.
Yup. Deaths have fallen off llike a log. Peaks every 6 months, like a flu.
“The respiratory illness has infected 3,179,714 residents statewide since the start of the pandemic”
And they know this how? But using your numbers, the death rate is less than 1.4%. And that’s assuming that all deaths were from Covid not with Covid. Heck. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to get Covid. Or be sick from anything. But that’s not realistic. Apparently no one gets a cold, flu or any other respiratory virus anymore. Unless....Covid
Speaking as an “over 70” Floridian, you are perzactly correct!
I am “living FRee!” And, I will continue to do so!
The anti-American LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist Democrats who seek to destroy us can take their “mask and jab” regulations and stickem where the sun don’t shine!
I REFUSE TO LIVE IN FEAR!
FREEDOM!
Thanks for posting, SeekandFind!
One of the most important “need to know” items in ANY WAR (and, WE ARE AT WAR!) is what the enemy is saying (their propaganda) and doing (recent antifa/BLM/FBI “False Flag” activities).
This is good intel. We know who and what they are, and your sharing their propaganda with us is a GOOD thing!
Keep up the good work!
I don't know about that. At least locally, on of our TV stations has for years done a segment at least once a week on what local physicians and NP are seeing "going around" or happening frequently: Anything from poison ivy to sinusitis to flu or gastric ailments. Recently, RSV has been hot.
Now I'd agree flu cases have been way down, but, mitigation vs. any respiratory spreading virus works at least "some", and what slows down Covid seriously puts the whammy on the flu. (What's going on with RSV I don't know, but, we had a period this late spring into summer with virtually no mitigation, so I'd say both RSV and Covid-Delta are perhaps near "parallel" in case curve shape; flu never shows here in warm months anyway.)
Anecdotally, my wife, daughter, and I all in the same week came down with a pretty darn miserable respiratory "something" last fall. Testing pretty much ruled out Covid. But, we did not test for anything else, or seek treatment as: A) None of us was severely ill or getting worse, by the time the tests came back; B) We figured the risk of getting COVID if we went to the ER or a Clinic was higher than the risk from our "bug". Talking to quite a few people, and some nurse friends, I think that sort of "action" (or lack of it) is common.
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