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People are dying from simple stuff while waiting for ICU beds, but the anti-vaxx crowd doesn't really care. https://people.com/health/u-s-army-veteran-dies-of-
by x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
People are dying from simple stuff while waiting for ICU beds, but the anti-vaxx crowd doesn't really care.
https://people.com/health/u-s-army-veteran-dies-of-treatable-illness-fter-being-unable-to-get-a-hospital-bed-in-time-due-to-pandemic-shortages/ https://people.com/health/u-s-army-veteran-dies-of-treatable...
https://www.ky3.com/2021/08/27/man-dies-waiting-icu-bed-family-says/ https://www.ky3.com/2021/08/27/man-dies-waiting-icu-bed-fami...
- commandlinefan 5y ago> waiting for ICU beds Not saying this isn't happening, but the phrasing here is a little disingenuous - there are plenty of beds, just not enough doctors and nurses to staff them. And why is that? In many cases, it's because the doctors and nurses themselves refuse to take an experimental vaccine and are being furloughed or terminated.
- pc86 5y agoStop saying "experimental vaccine" because that's entirely untrue. It might have been true for barely reasonable interpretations of the term months ago, but it's certainly untrue now.
- whymauri 5y agoIt's literally FDA approved at this point. My brain melts every time I read a COVID discussion on HN -- it's actually worst than Reddit at this point because people here believe they're _just so much smarter than everyone else_. Even more so than Reddit, which I previously believed was impossible.
- drewg123 5y agoYou're the one being disingenuous. The vaccine is not experimental. Its FDA approved.
- wikidani 5y agoThere are some serious issues with FDA approval,for example the potential conflict of interest with pharmaceutical companies providing funding to the same entity approving their drugs
- geofft 5y agoIs there data about how much of the staffing shortage is due to staff refusing to take a (non-ezperimental) vaccine, vs. staff deciding they'd rather have a job that doesn't expose them to covid every day, vs. staff that have died?
- stjohnswarts 5y agovery few doctors and nurses are "getting furloughed". Pfizer is a fully approved vaccine by the FDA. Those people are just acting like children.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoIn either case, the man died due to anti-vaxx sentiment. Either because anti-vaxx people were flooding the ICU, or because anti-vaxx staff were getting furloughed for non-compliance.