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."

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    As a matter of prioritizing patients who are most likely to actually survive, in a time when resources and hospital beds are limited, sure. The whole thing is still kinda scary to me purely because liberals are fucking assholes, so I can easily see this being weaponized into some libshit punitive nonsense.

    • steve5487 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      the liberal bad approach would be to make it so treatment goes to those who can pay high prices