Yes.
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Texas doesn’t have statewide guidelines for critical care and triage, which means that caregivers are left to their own local organizing. But tough times like the ones brought on by low vaccination rates and the delta variant require a re-examination of priors. This fourth wave of Covid hospitalizations differs from all the others, because almost everyone who is severely ill is also unvaccinated. In Texas, more than 12,800 people are in the hospital because of Covid-19, and between 93 and 98 percent of them are unvaccinated.
It’s tempting to blame this wave not on the virus but on the people who didn’t get their shots. “This has been bubbling up—this anger, this frustration, this fear, this worry. Every day, we’re seeing the ascent of the curve. Now it’s the steepest it’s ever been,” Fine says. “So I and the other leaders of the task force, we decided, you know, these numbers are not looking good. These questions are coming up."
It's not a hypothetical, this is a very real scenario. The hospital in my city still has tent and shipping container wards up, a d ICU beds and oxygen are very scarce. Triage is being applied, older people are being sent home while younger people get the few available hospital beds. The same is true in areas of the USA. While vaccination is not widespread enough to be used a criteria for triage in my country, it is very widespread in the USA. If you're a doctor triaging patients in Florida (not a hypothetical, gunshot victims were being sent home), do you use vaccination status as a criteria? Other criteria, like age are already being used for triage. Stuff that people have no control of. Would adding vaccine status (something people have relative control of, not full control because anti vaccine propaganda, etc) really be immoral by that standard?
Wasn't there a thread here last week with an ER doc talking about this? Does anyone have a link to that?
Yeah someone even posted the gofundme for the gunshot victim here