Speak Up: Delaware hospitals enter into crisis mode due to virus surge

Speak Up: Delaware hospitals enter into crisis mode due to virus surge

Several Delaware hospitals entered Crisis Standards of Care protocols recently to address the “unprecedented demand for hospital and health care services.” Crisis Standards of Care are used in times of emergency to guide decision-making when the demand for care surpasses the available resources, and contingency strategies designed to maintain conventional processes of care have been exhausted, according to a press release by ChristianaCare.

• By COVID-positive workers continuing to work? Asking for a friend. — Kimberly Faye

• Or less nurses? — Laura Wing

• Shouldn’t have fired all of your nurses. — Josh Levan

• Good news, they didn’t! — Christine Brock

• How many were admitted due to another illness and were tested and found omicron-positive? — Steven Hillriegel

• There is no crisis. We have 990,000 residents in Delaware, and only 0.0007% are hospitalized. When are we gonna wake up and call an end to this nonsense! — Daniel Korup

• CDC says 43% are in hospitals with other illnesses but have tested positive for the virus, so they’re there with COVID and not from COVID, according to the CDC. — Mike Rowe

• Exactly, could be as high as 70%. Follow the money, follow the power! — Steven Hillriegel

• It doesn’t matter. If they were admitted for, say, a bleeding ulcer, and they also tested positive for COVID-19, it doesn’t change the fact that they have COVID-19, so I don’t understand the point of your question. — Gary Greer

• Simple, the media likes to add to the hysteria narrative by saying the hospitals are full due to COVID-19, when the truth is the patients are there for other illnesses, not necessarily the flu. — Steven Hillriegel