- Jun 19, 2014
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good thing we're handing front line workers their walking papers for daring to exercise personal freedom of choice.Our system stopped elective procedures Multiple times over the past 18 months to conserve staff and beds. There has been a nursing shortage for years that preceded Covid. Covid has just exacerbated it. As I’m sure you have read, it’s easy to create beds , it’s another to be able to staff them. The other issue is that once Covid patients are vented they reside that way for weeks tying up icu beds with very little turnover other than death. I take a middle of the road position, there are much deadlier diseases out there for sure, but I can’t deny what I’ve seen with my own eyes.