President Joe Biden said Thursday he reached out himself to a hospital the night before to make sure the wife of his “good friend” received immediate care because the “waiting room was so crowded.”
“Last night, I was on the telephone with a person at an emergency hospital ward in Pennsylvania because a good friend had called, and he had rushed his significant other to the emergency room because this woman was having trouble breathing, had a high fever, and could not catch her breath,” Biden said during a speech in Illinois promoting COVID-19 vaccine mandates for businesses. “They got her into the hospital. The waiting room was so crowded, things were so backed up they couldn’t even get her to be seen initially. So, because I knew this person, I called. I called the desk receiving nurse and asked what the situation was.”
“To make a long story short, it took a while because all of the – not all – the vast majority of the emergency rooms and docs were occupied taking care of COVID patients,” Biden added. “I bet every one of you can name somebody who got sent to the hospital with something other than COVID and couldn’t get it taken care of.”
Biden claimed he “wasn’t complaining” when he made the call because doctors and nurses working in overcrowded hospitals are “getting the living hell kicked out of them, sometimes physically.”
Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there is finally a decline in daily COVID-19 deaths following a two-month increase to mid-September.
A seven-day moving average indicates a 12% decline over the last two weeks, from 1,630 on Sept. 21 to 1,428 on Oct. 5, according to the latest figures. Even still, the number of COVID-19 deaths passed surpassed 700,000.
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