Emergency Medical Collapse
(imgur.com)https://imgur.com/gallery/AZowioH A co-worker showed this to me a couple of days ago at work.
It is a breakdown of Nationally Registered emergency medical personnel such as, EMTs and Paramedics.
There is a massive drop in those maintaining/renewing their emergency medical certifications and the amount of people getting these certifications for the first time.
To be clear you don't necessarily need to be Nationally Registered to hold state credentials (it might depend on the state, I don't know. In California you don't have to be). To originally get a CA EMT Lic., I had to pass the National Registry, but let my National Registry lapse because I'm not planning to use this out of state.
I have a sister in the Los Angeles area who is a long time LVN studying for RN. She works for Kaiser Permanente, she and a bunch of her co-workers refused to get the jab. So many nurses refused this shot that they had to back off. Her son is a Paramedic and he refused to get the jab as well.
Within the last year my sister's daughter had a wedding in LA, there were a ton of nurses, nursing students, at least one paramedic and his date was an EMT. Not a mask in sight.
I'm going to be seeing her soon and I plan on asking her about nursing morale. I imagine that the kind of numbers that are represented in the out of hospital medical care/EMS community will be closely mirrored in the nursing community.
