'It just went boom': Florida ICU's swamped with younger COVID victims

[reagansghost]

As the Herald report notes, the new flood of victims flooding in are even sicker than before -- and also younger.


"The youngest patient, a 27-year-old woman on a ventilator, had to be resuscitated with a bag valve mask after her blood oxygen saturation levels crashed. The oldest, a 71-year-old man, has been in the ICU for two weeks. He has been in a coma for three days. When he awakens, if he awakens, he will be a widower. The man's wife, also hospitalized with COVID-19, died two days earlier," the report states. "Many healthcare workers at Jackson Memorial thought the end of the pandemic was in sight, largely due to the effectiveness of the vaccines. Then the delta variant took hold, particularly in areas with low vaccination rates, and cases are surging again, only at a faster clip."

According to Alix Zacharski, manager of the medical intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial, the critically-ill patients they are seeing are way younger -- and way sicker -- than they were during the first wave of COVID victims. "Unlike last year, we're getting a very young population, which is extremely concerning because this time we're now getting young people without pre-existing conditions," Zacharski admitted. "So that's scarier."

~ Miami Herald

[Hawkeye10]

As the Herald report notes, the new flood of victims flooding in are even sicker than before -- and also younger.


"The youngest patient, a 27-year-old woman on a ventilator, had to be resuscitated with a bag valve mask after her blood oxygen saturation levels crashed. The oldest, a 71-year-old man, has been in the ICU for two weeks. He has been in a coma for three days. When he awakens, if he awakens, he will be a widower. The man's wife, also hospitalized with COVID-19, died two days earlier," the report states. "Many healthcare workers at Jackson Memorial thought the end of the pandemic was in sight, largely due to the effectiveness of the vaccines. Then the delta variant took hold, particularly in areas with low vaccination rates, and cases are surging again, only at a faster clip."

According to Alix Zacharski, manager of the medical intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial, the critically-ill patients they are seeing are way younger -- and way sicker -- than they were during the first wave of COVID victims. "Unlike last year, we're getting a very young population, which is extremely concerning because this time we're now getting young people without pre-existing conditions," Zacharski admitted. "So that's scarier."

~ Miami Herald

Stories are nice, but were the fuck is that data?

[Jack]

Trumptopians dying. Christian Fascists. If a million Nazis died from COVID, would the War have been easier to Win?

[ThatOwlWoman]

As the Herald report notes, the new flood of victims flooding in are even sicker than before -- and also younger.


"The youngest patient, a 27-year-old woman on a ventilator, had to be resuscitated with a bag valve mask after her blood oxygen saturation levels crashed. The oldest, a 71-year-old man, has been in the ICU for two weeks. He has been in a coma for three days. When he awakens, if he awakens, he will be a widower. The man's wife, also hospitalized with COVID-19, died two days earlier," the report states. "Many healthcare workers at Jackson Memorial thought the end of the pandemic was in sight, largely due to the effectiveness of the vaccines. Then the delta variant took hold, particularly in areas with low vaccination rates, and cases are surging again, only at a faster clip."

According to Alix Zacharski, manager of the medical intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial, the critically-ill patients they are seeing are way younger -- and way sicker -- than they were during the first wave of COVID victims. "Unlike last year, we're getting a very young population, which is extremely concerning because this time we're now getting young people without pre-existing conditions," Zacharski admitted. "So that's scarier."

~ Miami Herald

Has anyone informed Sister Stench, who lives in Florida, that people without pre-existing conditions are sick enough to hospitalize? Because according to her if you get it and are hospitalized and/or die, it's your own fault for not taking Vitamin D, for not having a healthy immune system like SHE has, and for having a pre-existing condition, even if it's just a funny mole. I can't wait till she gets it. OTOH I'd bet good money that she, like all of her idiotic ilk, really ARE vaccinated and are avoiding large gatherings.

[reagansghost]

OTOH I'd bet good money that she, like all of her idiotic ilk, really ARE vaccinated and are avoiding large gatherings.

bingo, I know of at least 3 right now, the other MAGA's avoid the topic and run

[ThatOwlWoman]

bingo, I know of at least 3 right now, the other MAGA's avoid the topic and run

One thing that we noticed all last year, and into this one as well: Despite the screaming and moaning about mask-wearing on social media by the local Reichtards here, in public we saw only a handful of ppl w/o masks on throughout this whole pandemic. And of those, at least half were obviously special needs ppl who most likely couldn't tolerate them.