Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, they’re learning that a virus is gonna virus and there’s nothing you can do about it:
Hong Kong is struggling to contain an outbreak of the more contagious, but less lethal, Covid-19 omicron variant, with hospitals running over-capacity. https://t.co/UBRUHzJWhJ Photos: AFP. pic.twitter.com/EobZprXOrL
— Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) February 16, 2022
Hold up. The hospital system in a city about the size of New York City is crashing on only 4000 new cases a day?
Record cases for Covid in Hong Kong today – over 4,000 https://t.co/TyNj2lURwP
— Tommy Walker (@tommywalkerco) February 16, 2022
They’re currently putting patients outdoors:
Today at #HongKong’s Caritas Medical Centre: around 15-20 masked patients, most of them seniors, in beds located at an outdoor triage area awaiting their COVID-19 test results, as hospitals and quarantine rooms are all full. They are among 100 patients placed outdoors (1/4) pic.twitter.com/ChAYnmmcyC
— Theodora Yu (@theodorayuhk) February 16, 2022
WTF is going on?
Patients are covered with double or triple layers of blankets to keep warm in adjacent beds. Used tissue papers can be seen on the floor, probably swept to the ground by the wind. (2/4) pic.twitter.com/mh6LR20R8S
— Theodora Yu (@theodorayuhk) February 16, 2022
You’d think they’d be better able to handle this minor outbreak:
Medical staffer are sanitizing the beds immediately and collecting used blankets into plastic bags. (3/4) pic.twitter.com/Dl83B05zB6
— Theodora Yu (@theodorayuhk) February 16, 2022
Be more like Hong Kong and China, they said. . .
A patient who kicked away his blankets and moved his arms for a minute but no one paid attention. He was later blanketed. Another person was sleeping on chairs. (4/4) pic.twitter.com/XJ4MFXGAUA
— Theodora Yu (@theodorayuhk) February 16, 2022
This patient is sleeping on chairs:
— Theodora Yu (@theodorayuhk) February 16, 2022
Four days?!
At Pok Oi Hospital, some patients are asleep in chairs. An employee told me some have been there for 4 days waiting for results and be sorted to isolation facilities. pic.twitter.com/jpXJZG1RdT
— Theodora Yu (@theodorayuhk) February 16, 2022
And how soon until China cracks down?
Hospitals in Hong Kong are struggling to keep up with an influx of new patients amid record numbers of new coronavirus infections. China’s leader Xi Jinping said it is the local government’s “overriding task” to control the situation. https://t.co/dp5VTCsfXw
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 16, 2022
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