Coronavirus (political)

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An Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan died in Texas from a treatable illness all because no ICU beds were available.

Daniel Wilkinson, 46, fell ill on Aug. 21, his mother, Michelle Puget, told Fox News. The next day, the family took him to an emergency room near their Bellville home, where he was diagnosed with gallstone pancreatitis.

Puget said the doctors told her they knew how to treat him and that all was needed was to get him to an ICU bed.

Unfortunately, the Bellville hospital was not equipped with the necessary equipment or personnel needed for the operation Wilkinson needed. Because of the surge of the delta variant of COVID-19, hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients and there were no ICU beds available for Wilkinson.

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The doctors and nurses, Puget said, "called all the hospitals in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Colorado and couldn’t get him a bed."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/houston-a...s-wait-icu-bed