As the United States reached its highest number of coronavirus cases since the onset of the pandemic, the president has discovered a new goal for his constant redirection of functions for the COVID-19 pandemic: American physicians.
On the night of October 24, President Trump addressed his supporters at a rally in Wisconsin, located minutes from a transitional COVID-19 cash hospital, arguing that doctors on the front line of the pandemic falsely captured cases of COVID-19 to benefit from them. of the pandemic. Undermining your own clinical experts is not enough to question the severity of the crisis. Now he desperately suggests: “I don’t know, other people say
As doctors, we are outraged by Trump’s unscrupulous innuendo. We’re not alone. The American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, based on the voices of more than 800,000 U. S. physicians, have criticized Trump for his ruthless accusations.
The mere implication that fitness professionals would be motivated through the benefit of replacing the actual rate of this public fitness pandemic is reprehensible.
We struggle to involve losses, and we keep losing ours. For months, we worked tirelessly to involve the spread of COVID-19. While we produce a quarter of a million deaths across the country, we can’t 1,700 of our own. fitness partners among them. We are the groups that take care of everyone, day and night, as we threaten our own lives to gain advantages from our communities. Unsurprisingly, we’re exhausted. The more than seven months have been a marathon of resilience, frustration and fear.
Here’s the truth: we label patients with COVID-19 because the precise identity of this disease is so that we can track cases and take immediate mandatory measures to prevent further spread. If a patient has a history of central illness or other medical disorders and dies in the hospital with COVID-19, we know that coronavirus has exacerbated this underlying condition and its disappearance It is accurate and consistent with the principles of public fitness to list it as a cause of death.
We are with historic casualties, layoffs and pay cuts.
Worse, the claims that doctors are benefiting from the pandemic are absolutely unfounded and cannot be beyond the truth. Medical practices are not immune from the economic losses suffered by Americans. One in five U. S. doctors, whether hired or self-employed. employment, experienced wages cut the pandemic Hospitals and medical offices had to launch licenses and layoffs to stay afloat, adding highs in 35% of all number one care practices. More than 16,000 – or 9% – of independent medical offices had to close completely.
More recent estimates recommend that hospitals, thanks to the loss of elective surgeries at pandemic peaks, face a loss of more than $300 billion in profits this year alone, and all of this happens at a time when doctors say they are running more hours this year. – in the midst of greater uncertainty about the long term of your profession.
Doctor: My concern about the September 11 flight came back with COVID-19. Did I have to worry?
We paint in harmful conditions, without the obligatory device to protect you and us. In the spring, the photographs were indelible: the N95 mask was reused for days, while nurses were covered with garbage bags as an EPI proxy. , hospitals, clinics and public agencies are competing for the few existing PPE supplies. Meanwhile, President Trump has accused physical care personnel of storing PPE and other medical devices. He blamed physical care personnel for shortages across the country, although the main cause of the ongoing tragedy was his administration’s refusal to enact a national and comprehensive strategy.
Fast-forward to this day, when many fitness care staff members still lack good enough PPE and continue to reuse masks, gowns, and gloves for single use. This could have been resolved smoothly now if President Trump had fully activated the Defense Production Act to accelerate and nationalize the production of PPE, a request he has rejected.
We don’t see an end in sight. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has made it clear that the Trump administration has stopped looking at this pandemic, while waving the white flag in the hope that healing products and vaccines will be available in sufficient quantities for all Americans. thousands more are expected to die.
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The new account of the “medical swamp” that emerges from the White House, though deeply disturbing, is not outside the consultation of this administration. Since the first reported U. S. coronavirus case in January 2020, the president has undermined his own fitness experts and denied clinical evidence on every shift.
The next few weeks and months will be grim as we continue to suffer the repercussions of Trump’s ruthless inaction, but you have the ability to shape how this story ends. We urge all Americans to elect morally guilty leaders who are unwilling to allow political manipulation of science. The lives of other Americans depend on it.
Dr. Shikha Jain is an oncologist on Chicago. Twitter: @ShikhaJainMD Dr. Olaoluwa Fayanju is a family circle physician at Cleveland. Twitter: @ofayanju Dr. Joseph V. Sakran, is Director of General Emergency Surgery and Trauma Surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Twitter: @JosephSakran Dr. Vineet Arora is a hospitalist at Illinois. Twitter: @FutureDocs Dr. Ali Khan, MD, is a general internist at Chicago. Twitter: alikhan28
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