The surge in new COVID cases is putting an enormous strain on hospitals, jeopardizing patients who cannot get the medical attention they need because of a lack of space.
Idiotic anti-vaxxers who are coming down with preventable COVID-19 are overwhelming hospitals in some areas and disrupting medical treatment for those in genuine need of emergency care.
Daniel Wilkinson was probably not the first person to die because of Trumpsters who value their free-dumb to become seriously ill.
When U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson started feeling sick last week, he went to the hospital in Bellville, Texas, outside Houston. His health problem wasn't related to COVID-19, but Wilkinson needed advanced care, and with the coronavirus filling up intensive care beds, he couldn't get it in time to save his life.
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Last Saturday, Wilkinson's mother rushed him to Bellville Medical Center, just three doors down from their home.
But for Wilkinson, help was still too far away.
Belville emergency room physician Dr. Hasan Kakli treated Wilkinson, and discovered that he had gallstone pancreatitis, something the Belville hospital wasn't equipped to treat.
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Wilkinson was airlifted to Houston, but it was too late.
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Roughly 24 hours after he walked into the emergency room, Daniel Wilkinson died at the age of 46.
So if you are an anti-vaxxer who gets sick because you refused vaccination: Don’t clog up the hospitals with your preventable illness. Stay home, take some livestock dewormer, and call Tucker Carlson the next morning.
Don’t prevent others from getting emergency medical care. Get vaccinated.
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