The Mayo Clinic, one of the best hospitals in the world, announced that they would be furloughing or reducing salaries of 30,000 of their staff which amounts to about 40% of their employees across the country.
The hospital, along with so many other ones across America, has been taking huge financial hits because of the COVID-19 pandemic which has caused a loss of income due to the ban on non- emergency surgeries and procedures.
According to the Conservative Review, the Mayo Clinic is often the destination for people facing life- threatening illnesses who have lost all other hope.
Not so much anymore. If you don’t have COVID-19, you are out of luck. And you are out of luck even more now with the hospital layoffs going on across the United States.
How many of our hospitals will survive if this continues? How many people will survive if this continues?
As of April 7th, there was a list of 191 hospitals who were furloughing workers. These hospitals, by governor order or by their own decisions, suspended “elective” procedures to save capacity, supplies and staff to treat COVID-19 patients. Patients who never came. And these hospitals’ inability or refusal to help other medically ill people continues.
In addition to the tyrannical governors banning procedures and checkups for chronically ill patients and some hospitals making their own decisions to stop treatments, the media has also panicked people into not seeking treatment for their conditions, even serious conditions.
Another large and important hospital, Johns Hopkins University, is also expecting to have layoffs and furloughs. They are expecting to lose $375 million in revenue by June of this year and they say that more than 1,200 employee are currently idle except for minimal off-site work.
Don’t worry though. Spokesperson Jill Rosen said the cuts will have “no effect on our pandemic efforts.”
Well, that’s nice to know. It’ll just have an effect on every other medical issue people are having.
Organ transplants, chemotherapy, strokes, heart attacks, brain surgeries… people are near death and others have died while this lunacy continues.
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