Frustration grows among doctors and nurses at a Southern California ICU where unvaccinated COVID patients are struggling for their lives.
Dr. Curtis Converse, center, confers with nurses on his morning rounds in the ICU at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton.
Nearby stood the tree that Zorina Hernandez, the critical care unit manager, had ordered on Amazon. Koelliker, a registered nurse, had come in an extra day to help festoon it with bows, tinsel and red, green and gold ornaments. On the walls between rooms hung miniature Christmas trees and red globes that read “Merry Christmas.” The festive spirit belied the grim circumstances for patients inside.One woman had been on the ventilator for close to two weeks and probably wouldn’t be able to come off. Hospital staff had begun talking palliative care with her family. The hospital allows visitation for COVID patients at end of life, but family members are only allowed outside of the room.
“Patients are still dying at an alarming rate, all unvaccinated. They haven’t stopped dying for two years. It’s hard to deal with that for so long.”ICU charge nurse Beth Koelliker checks on COVID patients at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. Still, Koelliker cracked the door to ask, “Doing OK?” The woman, who was not yet intubated, signaled that she was.Right before Thanksgiving, Hernandez said, the hospital went 48 hours with no COVID patients in the ICU. After the holiday, “the numbers just started to climb,” the unit manager added.
“The devastation on the lungs is pretty intense,” he said. “Unfortunately this patient is pretty young, she’s in mid-adulthood. Just very, very sick.”
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