In mississippi. The hospitals are full from memphis to gulf port, natchez to meridian. Everything is full. Everything is full. The i. C. U. Crisis is getting more critical by the hour. Some states are at or they are near capacity. Only a few hundred beds are left in some of the largest states in the south, or in the case of mississippi you see there on your screen zero. Mississippi is now requesting help from the federal government as they are dealing with this crush of coronavirus patients. And a critical staffing shortage. Theres a Field Hospital thats now being set up in a Parking Lot that could be used to take Care Of older teenagers with coronavirus. Some schools in mississippi, Indiana And Georgia have already gone back to virtual learning because of growing case numbers. Many are now rethinking mask policies. West Virginia Republican Governor jim justice warns that if cases continue to climb, as they clearly are, masks may be required in schools there. More children are now hosp
treatment and care. people less likely to survive will not get those resources. they will be moved down the line. instead, in an effort to save as many human lives as possible, these hospitals now have permission and guidance to prioritize giving treatment to people who are more likely to live. and that is as bad as it sounds. it means that some people will not be admitted to the hospital, even though they need to be hospitalized. other people who might previously have been given curative treatment, treatment to cure them and save them instead will just be given comfort care to try to make things easier for them. and it s a sort of anti-dine phrase, crisis standards of care. but it is a terrible thing, and it is a thing that we really haven t confronted before as a country. now we ve got it in place, though, in one of montana s major medical centers. they moved to crisis standards of care this week. we ve also got it in every hospital in the state in idaho as of last week, an
hospital started crisis standard of care before the whole state sees tonight. and groups news reporting a triage team. using a specific formula to prioritize patients most likely to recover. has been asked to help with patient care decision, one decision we there were four patients were required a special kind of dialysis which was a replacement therapy. for patients but only two of the four could get it of the two patients who did not receive the therapy, one of them died. the other one survived but remains hospitalized now in a politics care care we setting. another decision at the hospital involve deciding which patient got incubated because they were not enough beds in the icu. another patient died in a world alaska hospital because they needed cardiac catheterization. they were quote waiting for a bid to free up so we could transfer them said the hospital chief steph. and that patient died. providence alaska, the hospital that previously set of crisis tentative care th
previously have been given curative treatment, treatment to cure them and save them instead will just be given comfort care to try to make things easier for them. and it s a sort of anodyne phrase, crisis standards of care. but it is a terrible thing, and it is a thing that we really haven t confronted before as a country. now we ve got it in place, though, in one of montana s major medical centers. they moved to crisis standards of care this week. we ve also got it in every hospital in the state in idaho as of last week and in every hospital in the state in alaska as of tonight. and all of this, of course, is because of the huge influx of very sick covid patients, swamping and effectively breaking the hospital systems in these states so that they can no longer provide care along the ethical and sort of technical guidelines that they ve always followed. and it s not just covid patients who are going to suffer from this rationing in these hospitals. it means everybody who need
carley: that is the president sister rushing to defend president biden to work to sell her new book. hunter biden s abandoned laptop tells a much different story that some republicans say is all in the family. you are watching fox & friends first on this monday morning, i m sure i ll do my carley shimkus. todd: todd piro and we will have more of those stories but we turn to the house and senate. democrats are headed for a pretty good beating in the midterms thanks to the failures of the biden administration. carley: and building confidence towards november, democrat pendants are frustrated with the party not being able to deliver an effective message. alexandria hoff live with more. the president ran with bringing people together, working together, progressive messaging has not won over the country as a whole. democrats know it. listen to how this is playing out. right now republicans are willing to culture wars in this country. that is the way it is. democra