'So frustrating': Doctors and nurses battle virus skeptics

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Source: ABC News

MISSION, Kan. -- Treating the sick and dying isn't even the toughest part for nurse Amelia Montgomery as the coronavirus surges in her corner of red America.

It's dealing with patients and relatives who don't believe the virus is real, refuse to wear masks and demand treatments like hydroxychloroquine, which President Donald Trump has championed even though experts say it is not effective against the scourge that has killed over 210,000 in the U.S.

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It's unclear how Trump’s bout with the virus will affect the situation, but some doctors aren't optimistic. After a few days of treatment at a military hospital, the president tweeted Monday, “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. ... I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”

In Georgia, at Augusta University Medical Center, visitors have tried to get around the mask requirement by wearing face coverings made of fishnet and other material with visible holes, something the hospital has dubbed “malicious compliance." People also have shown up with video cameras in an attempt to collect proof the virus is a hoax, said Dr. Phillip Coule, the health system's chief medical officer, who contracted the virus in July and has seen two staff members die.

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I know three people who have died from this virus, I tend to lose my temper when people claim it's a hoax or that it's nothing to worry about blah blah blah. I can't even begin to understand the frustration that medical professionals feel when confronted by these idiots.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Long past kid glove time. No mask-- throw 'em out into the cold.

[dalton99a]

2. There is a lot of blood on Trump's hands

In Iowa, home health nurse Lisa Dockery was fired from her job caring for a boy with severe disabilities after arguing with his parents, who said COVID-19 is a “hoax.” The argument started because the parents refused to wear masks around Dockery and the boy, even though she told them their son's life was in danger because he has respiratory problems, relies on tube feedings and cannot walk, state unemployment records show.

Dr. Brad Burmeister, an emergency medicine physician at Bellin Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin, said he has encountered a few patients who have declined to be tested for the coronavirus despite having possible symptoms.

“They say they don’t want to become a statistic or some kind of rhetoric like that," he said, adding that he thinks a shift might be coming, given what happened to Trump. “It just sort of shows how infectious COVID-19 is and how easily it can spread, that even when you are taking all of those precautions, you can still get infected with the virus."

Dr. Natasha Bhuyan, a family physician in Phoenix, said politics often come up in discussions with patients who come in asking whether the death toll is being inflated.

Dr. Jay W. Lee, a family physician in Orange County, California, recalled a patient who demanded the “largest hydroxychloroquine prescription you can give me."

“If I didn’t have my mask on, he would have seen my mouth agape,” said Lee, chief of the Share Our Selves medical clinics, adding that a small number of patients “flat-out said this was a hoax."

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Except for a few percent in any occupation including the health field

I expect that few are "political junkies" enough to experience this kind of nonsensical type of debate. So I expect it is probably not only a shock, but draining for these frontline health workers to have to deal with this unprecedented level of stupidity.

As has been posted a few times, COVID-19 has now been weaponized.

[BlueNIndiana]

4. If it's a hoax or no big deal why take anything at all? Why are they in the hospital then?

Trump supporters call it a hoax or nothing to worry about yet at the same time they demand hydroxychloroquine treatment, etc.

I swear these types of people are beyond redemption.

I commenced these doctors and nurses not go completely off when these jack asses come into a hospital.

[Omaha Steve]

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