Over Capacity Leads to Deaths at Columbia Memorial Hospital

August 24, 2021 00:02:14
Over Capacity Leads to Deaths at Columbia Memorial Hospital
A Story Told
Over Capacity Leads to Deaths at Columbia Memorial Hospital

Aug 24 2021 | 00:02:14

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by Jacob Lewin. Columbia Memorial Hospital says several patients have died there because they could not be transferred to larger, more specialized hospitals. These are not covid deaths, although it is overcrowding due to covid that kept them from getting treatment. In a brief statement made to the Astorian, Columbia Memorial’s CEO—Erik Thorson– says that several patients died here because they could not access metro area hospitals. Those hospitals are overcapacity with covid patients, most of them unvaccinated. Thorson would not provide details, including the exact number and when they died, except to say some of them needed specialized heart...

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