That’s awful! I really hope eveyone gets the treatment they need
Pretending Covid is over doesn’t make it over.
We learned nothing from the pandemic.
It’s flu season and Covid continues, yet few take any precautions or update their vaccination.
Health systems should have had increased capacity and investments over the last four years. Instead, they’re continuing to hang by a thread across the developed world.
Italy has, by far, the lowest flu vaccination rates in Western Europe (~20% vs 70+% in most of Western Europe).
Darwinism.
In the US large cities we have been boarding patients in the emergency department regularly and our emergency room census has increased significantly the last couple weeks for the same thing.
We are seeing a ton of influenza and Covid.
I lived in Milan in 2013-2014. I had a friend contract salmonella. He was first misdiagnosed with a stomach bug, then sent home with a prescription for medication needed to be taken via an intravenous line, then was finally admitted to the hospital. It had no phone, no WiFi or cell reception, only one bathroom and nurse per floor. He had to rip out his own iv when it ran dry to avoid an air bubble entering his blood.
Hope they get well soon
Is this due to a new illness or understaffing
I live in italy and my family and i have just gotten over the flu. It knocked us for 6. My husband was ill for 4 days kids about 2 but im on my 7th and still dont feel right. The hospitals are inundated with people and flu now
Went to OB/GYN in NY yesterday. It’s a large practice in a fairly well-to-do area. I’m getting over a cold and I heard Covid was on the rise so I wore a mask. I figured I didn’t want some pregnant lady to catch anything from me. Nobody in the building was wearing a mask. It’s a big practice with MDs, NPs, PAs, clerical staff. About 8 patients in waiting area. I carry antibacterial Wet Ones in my purse and made made sure to disinfect the fuck out of my hands when I left (and before I touched my car door).
COVID making one hell of a comeback. I caught it and isolated immediately but it didn’t help much, everyone in my proximity came down with it one after another.
In my ER alone, right now, we are waiting to admit 41 patients. I guarantee you right now in California alone the “waiting to be admitted” is at minimum 2x this number. We are diverting all ambulances even with BLS (not sick) runs and they keep coming anyway. ICU pts are being double boarded again just like COVID times except it’s not COVID this time it’s a lack of space and infrastructure and staff.
It’s just as bad if not worse here.
The heading scared me as i thought some hospitals actually collapsed.
A generational bomb is coming in healthcare. The baby boom generation is getting old. There is an expectation of 20-30% increase coming of patients with dementia, cancer and other “old age” disease. There simply isn’t capacity for it.
Here in Denmark they have calculated it would take an entire generation of youngsters going into the healthcare sector just to cover needs. It’s impossible.
The current plan is to hope that AI will relieve part of the burden. But they expect us to cope find solutions with less money less manpower but more patients. It will not work out well.
I just had 4 different upper respiratory infections in the past 2.5 months, including COvId
That’s terrible!
I met quite a lot of people who didn’t vaccinate this year, as if this is over.
We recently vaccinated against both COVID and flu. Recommended every 6 months according to the last nurse I spoke to.
People need to get fucking vaccinated.
1 Extremely low rate of vaccination for the flu
2 Covid still existing, despite people thinking otherwise
3 Year after year of cuts to healthcare spending (this government is no exception)
4 Very elderly population
5 Young doctors/nurses fleeing Italy as they do not want to be paid peanuts
Who could have expected this?
Mamma mia
I thought the hospital literally collapsed
Get your flu and COVID vaccines. Don’t be an idiot.
The flu is awful. Headache, joint pains, then turning to cough. Strange making some have runny poop. Me nope
Thank goodness that pandemic is over!
/s
(Btw, COVID is *still* considered a pandemic by the WHO)
Title misleading/clickbait, it should say “hospital system collapses” , sounded like actual hospital building collapse..geez
I live in Lombardia and know only 2 people who have had the flu this year, my upstairs neighbors. They are a couple in their 30s and it kicked their asses. They needed me to get them meds because they couldn’t get out of bed, and I can still hear them coughing 3 weeks later.
But other than them? No one. I had no idea things were this bad.
Better keep taking away rights from LGBT people. That’ll fix the issue
Yes, my Italian lawyer got it too like 5 days ago should check on him tomorrow, told him to watch for pneumonia signs…
arent people getting the flu/covid vaccine? i get every year it massively reduces the effects of flu and recover from it much faster to, vaccines are amazing but all that anti vaccine bs has done a lot of harm and def resulted in unnecessary deaths as people fell for…..
Oh they meant metaphorically. Thought an earthquake struck.
That’s right. Make everybody go back unnecessarily into the office. It’ll be fine. Ppl getting sick is normal. Wonder if we can start suing companies for doing this.
I had a Covid/flu hybrid I think? Really rocked my world for a bit there, but I didn’t want to go to the hospital knowing it was packed to the tits. The statistics are alarming.
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That’s awful! I really hope eveyone gets the treatment they need
Pretending Covid is over doesn’t make it over.
We learned nothing from the pandemic.
It’s flu season and Covid continues, yet few take any precautions or update their vaccination.
Health systems should have had increased capacity and investments over the last four years. Instead, they’re continuing to hang by a thread across the developed world.
Italy has, by far, the lowest flu vaccination rates in Western Europe (~20% vs 70+% in most of Western Europe).
Darwinism.
In the US large cities we have been boarding patients in the emergency department regularly and our emergency room census has increased significantly the last couple weeks for the same thing.
We are seeing a ton of influenza and Covid.
I lived in Milan in 2013-2014. I had a friend contract salmonella. He was first misdiagnosed with a stomach bug, then sent home with a prescription for medication needed to be taken via an intravenous line, then was finally admitted to the hospital. It had no phone, no WiFi or cell reception, only one bathroom and nurse per floor. He had to rip out his own iv when it ran dry to avoid an air bubble entering his blood.
Hope they get well soon
Is this due to a new illness or understaffing
I live in italy and my family and i have just gotten over the flu. It knocked us for 6. My husband was ill for 4 days kids about 2 but im on my 7th and still dont feel right. The hospitals are inundated with people and flu now
Went to OB/GYN in NY yesterday. It’s a large practice in a fairly well-to-do area. I’m getting over a cold and I heard Covid was on the rise so I wore a mask. I figured I didn’t want some pregnant lady to catch anything from me. Nobody in the building was wearing a mask. It’s a big practice with MDs, NPs, PAs, clerical staff. About 8 patients in waiting area. I carry antibacterial Wet Ones in my purse and made made sure to disinfect the fuck out of my hands when I left (and before I touched my car door).
COVID making one hell of a comeback. I caught it and isolated immediately but it didn’t help much, everyone in my proximity came down with it one after another.
In my ER alone, right now, we are waiting to admit 41 patients. I guarantee you right now in California alone the “waiting to be admitted” is at minimum 2x this number. We are diverting all ambulances even with BLS (not sick) runs and they keep coming anyway. ICU pts are being double boarded again just like COVID times except it’s not COVID this time it’s a lack of space and infrastructure and staff.
It’s just as bad if not worse here.
The heading scared me as i thought some hospitals actually collapsed.
A generational bomb is coming in healthcare. The baby boom generation is getting old. There is an expectation of 20-30% increase coming of patients with dementia, cancer and other “old age” disease. There simply isn’t capacity for it.
Here in Denmark they have calculated it would take an entire generation of youngsters going into the healthcare sector just to cover needs. It’s impossible.
The current plan is to hope that AI will relieve part of the burden. But they expect us to cope find solutions with less money less manpower but more patients. It will not work out well.
I just had 4 different upper respiratory infections in the past 2.5 months, including COvId
That’s terrible!
I met quite a lot of people who didn’t vaccinate this year, as if this is over.
We recently vaccinated against both COVID and flu. Recommended every 6 months according to the last nurse I spoke to.
People need to get fucking vaccinated.
1 Extremely low rate of vaccination for the flu
2 Covid still existing, despite people thinking otherwise
3 Year after year of cuts to healthcare spending (this government is no exception)
4 Very elderly population
5 Young doctors/nurses fleeing Italy as they do not want to be paid peanuts
Who could have expected this?
Mamma mia
I thought the hospital literally collapsed
Get your flu and COVID vaccines. Don’t be an idiot.
The flu is awful. Headache, joint pains, then turning to cough. Strange making some have runny poop. Me nope
Thank goodness that pandemic is over!
/s
(Btw, COVID is *still* considered a pandemic by the WHO)
Title misleading/clickbait, it should say “hospital system collapses” , sounded like actual hospital building collapse..geez
I live in Lombardia and know only 2 people who have had the flu this year, my upstairs neighbors. They are a couple in their 30s and it kicked their asses. They needed me to get them meds because they couldn’t get out of bed, and I can still hear them coughing 3 weeks later.
But other than them? No one. I had no idea things were this bad.
Better keep taking away rights from LGBT people. That’ll fix the issue
Yes, my Italian lawyer got it too like 5 days ago should check on him tomorrow, told him to watch for pneumonia signs…
arent people getting the flu/covid vaccine? i get every year it massively reduces the effects of flu and recover from it much faster to, vaccines are amazing but all that anti vaccine bs has done a lot of harm and def resulted in unnecessary deaths as people fell for…..
Oh they meant metaphorically. Thought an earthquake struck.
That’s right. Make everybody go back unnecessarily into the office. It’ll be fine. Ppl getting sick is normal. Wonder if we can start suing companies for doing this.
I had a Covid/flu hybrid I think? Really rocked my world for a bit there, but I didn’t want to go to the hospital knowing it was packed to the tits. The statistics are alarming.
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