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Oregon Hospitals Crushed By COVID Put Other Surgeries On Hold : Shots - Health News - NPR

Oregon Hospitals Crushed By COVID Put Other Surgeries On Hold : Shots - Health News - NPR

Oregon Hospitals Crushed By COVID Put Other Surgeries On Hold : Shots - Health News - NPR
Sep 16, 2021 1 min, 28 secs

Charlie Callagan's bone marrow transplant for multiple myeloma was postponed at the last minute because Oregon hospitals are overwhelmed with treating COVID-19 patients.

Charlie Callagan's bone marrow transplant for multiple myeloma was postponed at the last minute because Oregon hospitals are overwhelmed with treating COVID-19 patients.

That's what many doctors are telling their patients and the public as hospitals full of COVID-19 patients have been forced to postpone some treatments of other medical conditions.

A few weeks ago, Callagan was driving to Oregon Health and Science University in Portland for a bone marrow transplant, a major procedure that requires intensive follow-up tests and monitoring for complications.

That's the story at many hospitals in Oregon where they've been flooded with COVID-19 patients.

OHSU spokesperson Erik Robinson says the hospital, which is the state's only public academic medical center and serves patients from across the region, has had to postpone numerous surgeries and procedures in the wake of the delta surge.

Callagan says his bone marrow transplant has not yet been rescheduled.

Right now, the vast majority of COVID-19 patients in Oregon hospitals are unvaccinated — about five times as many as those who got the vaccine, according to the Oregon Health Authority.

COVID-19 infections in Oregon are starting to decline from a peak of the most recent delta variant-driven wave, but hospitals are still burdened with the most severe cases.

That's the lowest in the country," says Becky Hultberg, CEO of the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems.

At his home in southern Oregon, Charlie Callagan says he doesn't consider his bone-marrow transplant as urgent as what some people are facing right now

He says it's hard to be sympathetic for the COVID-19 patients filling up hospitals when a simple vaccine could have prevented most of these hospitalizations

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