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Originally Posted by roscoguy
Well, if you read the NPR story, you got something completely different than I did. You are absolutely right, the article didn't say that Cullman had no beds, it said that the needed level of care wasn't available there and that "Due to COVID 19, CRMC emergency staff contacted 43 hospitals in 3 states in search of a Cardiac ICU bed and finally located one in Meridian, MS.", which the NPR article did indeed quote directly from Mr. DeMonia's obituary.
However, I still can't understand what you feel "never happened" or was misrepresented in the NPR story. Do you have reason to believe that there were ICU beds available or, conversely, that the hospitals contacted were not at or near ICU capacity, at least in part due to COVID patients? More quotes from the article, from sources other than an obituary: " ICU capacity in Alabama has been maxed out in recent weeks, and COVID-19 patients occupy about half of the intensive care beds, according to Johns Hopkins University."
And this:
" Speaking last week, Dr. Scott Harris, the head of the Alabama Department of Public Health, said the state was continuing to experience "a real crisis" with ICU bed capacity."
I still see no "shoddy journalism" at all.   |
Simply put we read what we want to read into an article.
"Do you have reason to believe that there
were ICU beds available or, conversely, that the hospitals contacted were not at or near ICU capacity, at least in part due to COVID patients? Your question proves my point. The article gives me no reason to believe or disbelieve any of that AS IT RELATES to this patient. The reporter spoke to the hospital. Wouldn't you expect him to have asked these questions.
Did Cullman not have a cardiac ICU bed because of overcrowding caused by Covid?
Did the hospitals you contacted not have a cardiac ICU bed because of overcrowding caused by Covid? The answers could have easily confirmed the statement in the obit. The absence of such in the article leads one to conclude either he did not ask the questions or did ask the question and the hospital's answers did not fit his narrative. Either way my friend is what shoddy journalism is.
The final 2 quotes in your post may be accurate or not but they add nothing to the particular case in question. I suspect they were included elicit sympathy and to persuade the reader of the accuracy of the writer's narrative - to wit Ray's plight was caused by Covid spikes that were in turn caused by the unvaxxed.
We hear what we want to hear, new study confirms - UPI.com