NEW YORK (VINnews) — A TikTok video in which a California nurse pleads in tears for people to “stop being careless” has gone viral, racking up more than 1.9 million views.
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The video by Gayana Chuklansev, a surgical intensive care nurse, shows her wearing her blue nurse’s uniform with Christmas lights twinkling behind her. After begging people to “stop being careless”, she describes how overwhelmed nursing staff have been at her hospital.
“We have no ventilators for patients. We have no sedating medications. Patients are dying like flies,” Chuklansev says. “We’re full. We’re at max capacity. We have no resources. We have no staff. Our doctors can’t even intubate because they have like 40 patients each. We’re asking for help and help is not coming.”
In reply to a comment on the clip, Chuklansev said that she was describing the situation in Los Angeles.
The latest data from the official website for California Coronavirus Response, updated last Sunday, shows that the entire state has 0 percent ICU availability, including Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.
There have been more than 2.1 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state and more than 24,000 deaths, according to NBC News’ latest tally.
“It’s like a war zone and we’re asking for help and help’s not coming,” Chuklansev says in the video.
She also spoke out against the sentiment that overwhelmed nurses had “signed up for this,” stating that no nurse could have expected to deal with such dire situations.
At the end of the video, posted prior to the Christmas vacation, Chuklansev requested that people not travel for Christmas.
Numerous medical workers including researchers, doctors and nurses on the front line, have used TikTok to discuss Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
Recently, they and vaccine trial participants have used the platform to discredit misinformation about the vaccines, with several of those videos also garnering millions of views.
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Just comes to show how much lockdowns help, los Angeles, the lock down capitol in America, with the highest amount of mask wearers can’t fight fate
Nurse: We’re dying, I beg you to help us and be careful.
Educated Archy: Too bad. We’re Jewish and we don’t care.