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The Airport Triage Center

By Jeralyn, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 11:22:27 PM EST
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What is happening with the sick and dying in New Orleans? The airport has been converted into a triage center. The New York Times has some of the dispiriting details. CNN has this video from Ed Lavandera. He reported:

A nurse [said] Thursday that medical teams may, at some point, have to "black tag" patients -- decide which ones have a better chance of survival so the medical team's limited resources aren't consumed on lost causes.

The Times reports:

The head of a Louisiana ambulance service said he had been told of one home in lower St. Bernard's Parish where 80 patients had been found dead and of an apartment home for the blind where the staff had abandoned the residents. The reports could not immediately be confirmed.

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    Re: The Airport Triage Center (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:07 PM EST
    I work at the NPR affiliate down here in Houston, and I thought that this story from "All Things Considered" did a good job of explaining the whole tag system at the airport triage center in New Orleans. Kinda hard to imagine being the one to hand out those tags.

    Re: The Airport Triage Center (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:07 PM EST
    You understand that most if not all of the sick and dying will just disappear, its the Bush plan for the old and young and you. By the way i asked that on the first day. also from what i hear people say many, many of the dead have been carried away by the river so know one will know how many have died in new orleans, its not part of the plan but it will work for the coming cover-up.

    The Airport Triage Center | 2 comments (2 topical)