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Unvaxxed COVID patients overflow hospitals as doctors beg for help

Jennifer Schrimsher, a physician at Lawrence Memorial Health, was up
until 2 a.m. revising contingency plans.

The hospital, like all others in Kansas, is coping with unprecedented
numbers of COVID-19 patients and staff members out sick with the virus.

She doesn’t know what to do.

“We’ve offered insane amounts of overtime,” Schrimsher said. “People won’t take it because they can’t, they just mentally or physically
cannot anymore. And it is heartbreaking to look at that situation and
think that we may have to deliver substandard care, practice outside of
our normal standards of care and just try to piece together, you know,
care for patients. I don’t know what we’re going to do.”

Schrimsher, who is also the deputy public health officer for Douglas
County, joined 17 other medical officials from Kansas and western
Missouri hospitals in sounding a clarion call for public support during
a news conference Wednesday. The Lawrence hospital is cancelling
surgeries and transferring patients to Oklahoma, she said.

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