Sanford Health, a large hospital in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota, shared a chart Sept. 28, 2021 regarding hospitalizations and vaccination status. Out of 158 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, 12 were vaccinated and 146 were unvaccinated. Out of 47 patients in the Intensive Care Unit, two were vaccinated and 45 were not. Of the 28 patients on ventilators, no one was vaccinated.
I was a nurse for over 40 years. Nurses are caring people but we do have our limits. I would be very upset taking care of a patient on a ventilator who had not been vaccinated and watching them die with no family allowed to be with them.
All these unvaccinated COVID-19 patients are filling our hospital so other very sick people cannot get the care they need. Hospitals are being forced to hire traveling nurses because of the nursing shortage. These traveling nurses get paid a much higher hourly wage than the nurses who work for the hospital. Traveling nurses also are provided housing allowances and some even have food allowances above their wage. Does this seem fair?
This pandemic is not a political issue. It is a LIFE or DEATH issue.
Please, please get vaccinated.
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