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Vaccine hesitancy is having a direct impact on health care in the city of Long Beach. The barrier island's only emergency department stopped taking patients Monday, CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported.
Sal Gaimalveo was one of the last patents seen at the Long Beach ER before operations shut down at 3 p.m. due to a shortage of vaccinated nurses.
"It's horrible. So what? Are we going to be transferring everyone to Oceanside?" Gaimalveo said.
Yes, the only emergency room on this barrier island is operated by Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital. Its main ER in Oceanside is a 15-minute drive away. Its president says 99% of hospital staff is vaccinated, but 70 holdouts, including eight ER nurses, are forcing the closure to comply with the state's vaccine mandate.
"We were told as of Monday they could not work anymore," Dr. Avhi Sharma said. "We lose those nurses as of midnight. We could not continue to staff two different emergency departments with the number of nurses we have available."
Hospital officials predict the closure could last a month, while they recruit qualified and vaccinated staff. An ambulance will be stationed there, but Long Beach officials say they were blindsided by the news.
"I'm shocked and I'm deeply worried about the residents of this barrier island. We are 50,000 residents and to find out with virtually no notice that we won't have emergency care here is completely unacceptable," Long Beach City Council member Karen McInnis said.
"By closing this facility, it's also an impact on all other Nassau County ERs," Long Beach City Manager Donna Gayden said.
They are asking Mount Sinai South Nassau to reconsider the closure. The hospital's request to the state to grant a vaccine mandate extension was denied.
"We can reconsider if an extension is granted. This is a question of numbers. It's that simple," Sharma said.
So as Monday afternoon, the ER is closed. It's a department that gets around 10,000 patient visits per year.
Comment: As these vaccine mandates come into effect, it's likely that many more critical professions will go dangerously understaffed, as well as industries essential to the economy, and, in turn, more people will suffer from these mandates than would from the coronavirus itself; as was the case with lockdowns.
With that in mind, it's possible that the establishment pushing these mandates may need to back off, just enough, because, otherwise, who's going to run things?
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Reader Comments
"I'm shocked and I'm deeply worried about the residents of this barrier island. We are 50,000 residents and to find out with virtually no notice that we won't have emergency care here is completely unacceptable," Long Beach City Council member Karen McInnis said.WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN???
Vaccine hesitancy is having a direct impact on health care in the city of Long Beach.
Really? I think that would be our cunt of a “governor”. But I appreciate the propaganda… “hesitancy”
"the reluctance or refusal to have oneself or one's children vaccinated" - [Link]Not to be confused with Hesitancy
a) slowness in acting or deciding due to doubt or uncertainty
b) lack of willingness or eagerness to do something
A breakthrough case is an instance in which a person becomes sick with a disease despite having received the vaccine for that disease. In other words, the vaccine fails to prevent the person from becoming infected.Presumably not long after they changed the definition of Vaccine such that it does not need to confer immunity or protect against infection
RC
James May — "Oh, c@#k" and "Pillock" compilation - [Link]
I do believe you're right about that word and Americans - surely as re Southern folks.
In the bars I grew up in, if a guy used the C word (that's what we call it - likewise we use the term 'n word' - just a part of being in polite society I guess) he'd probably get his ass dragged out of the bar and beat to a pulp. Nah, more likely just smacked around a bit.
But when idiots would hit their ladies at those bars (and this applied even to where some female attacked some guy*) they would be summarily dragged outside and beaten to a pulp. (Meanwhile, I would sneak over to the #1 challenge pool table and the 'rules' were clear. No one there? Open table baby. (I never was one to watch fights.) (I'm talking about when I was 15. I had a real DL (almost surely stolen from some SOB - they didn't have pictures then) and I could go into any bar any time. (I always looked about 2-4 years older than (I wonder if I still do.) I was. of course I was the designated beer buyer. Had a mustache in my 9th grade picture when I was at 13 )
RC
*Whoa, I have another story about exactly that. . . got attacked by a drunk psycho bitch - (could have hurt her of course but didn't.) nonetheless, we had to run like hell. The crowd running out of the bar at us always remined me of Uneasy Rider.
Also, In Cajun LA . I-10 wasn't finished and we ended up in some Southern Comfort scene. Another story. Pretty much identical to what happens in that song except we didn't chase them all just once around the parking lot.
RC
When I let her go (after 4? seconds) I turned to my friend and said, 'We've gotta get gone now!' and we did. In his car as we were splitting about 20 guys came out looking for me. And yet, that's how it should be.
A question. WHO just linked a video of dumb bimbos driving two cars together with jumper cables attached? Worried that the guys trying to help were 'making a move on them'? That was crazy and yet typical.Thanks.
RC
And woe is the man who thinks it's a good idea to hit on anyone in that group of lemming women. Not one of them with enough of her own confidence to speak up and say "this is really stupid ladies." Because you know at least one of them was thinking it, but unlike groups of men, groups of women don't go against one another (at least in my experience and unless they are from different groups).
Helping folks broken down on the road is something I still do. My father taught us to. Idiot bimbettes like that just frankly irritate me. Kudos to those guys for letting that BS slide by and still simply try to help.
Boy, when I think of it, I've got LOTS of helping folks by the roadside stories.
RC
Did you see that video with those idiot bimbos driving cars hooked together with jumper cables???
RC
it's possible that the establishment pushing these mandates may need to back offThanks, I needed that laugh ... I expect they will be doing the total opposite and using this as an excuse to double down on their hate crimes against Purebloods and ramp up on their propaganda to convinced the jabbed muggles that the root cause of all problems are the Purebloods
Yep. Coasting in neutral on an increasing course to somewhere evil, as planned.
R.C.
Their Ace cards are now in play, they are ring fenced, nowt bothers them, the Age of Barbarism has begun.