Voluntary surgical procedures cancelled, because of the predicted "overwhelming" death wave from COVID. Those who could postpone heart valve surgery, transplants, knee or spinal surgeries were forced to wait. Small practices went bankrupt. Nurses were given a choice, get a vax (that doesn't work) or get fired.
So, we had empty hospital parking lots (remember that?), empty hospitals with people wearing masks simply to visit the lobby. Every sneeze treated like a lethal disease, and nurses with little to nothing to do but stare at each other.
And, we had more than 3 dozen hospitals declare bankruptcy, leaving entire areas without medical care, so far.
Voluntary surgical procedures cancelled, because of the predicted "overwhelming" death wave from COVID. Those who could postpone heart valve surgery, transplants, knee or spinal surgeries were forced to wait. Small practices went bankrupt. Nurses were given a choice, get a vax (that doesn't work) or get fired.
So, we had empty hospital parking lots (remember that?), empty hospitals with people wearing masks simply to visit the lobby. Every sneeze treated like a lethal disease, and nurses with little to nothing to do but stare at each other.
And, we had more than 3 dozen hospitals declare bankruptcy, leaving entire areas without medical care, so far.
https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2020/11/fact-sheet-covid-hospital-bankruptcies-1120.pdf