FREE ACCESSDr. Gamble issues statement on COVID, Omicron

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Greene County General Hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Michael Gamble issued the following statement regarding COVID-19:

“The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has reached Indiana and is evident in a large spike in case numbers.

The average daily cases far exceed any so far in the pandemic. The pandemic is not over, and many more people are sick. This variant is very easily spread- much more than any prior.

Current COVID-19 hospitalizations in Indiana are about to exceed the prior record from winter 2020. These are real people who are sick with COVID-19 and suffering complications such as breathing difficulty and kidney failure.

As more people become ill, more people will have complicated illness, and more people will die.

The people dying are our friends, family and loved ones- not just numbers on a webpage or in a news article.

The best action to take against severe COVID-19 is vaccination. The vaccine is safe and very effective at keeping people out of the intensive care unit and at keeping people from dying.

If you or your loved ones have not been vaccinated, now is the time. Schedule a vaccine at ourshot.in.gov.

Remember, the vast majority of people sick enough to be admitted to hospitals for COVID-19 are unvaccinated. The vaccine really does work and is safe and highly recommended.

Additional protection measures include good masking when indoors and around other people, good hand hygiene with hand washing/sanitization, and staying home when you are sick. Avoiding crowds and staying apart from others with good distancing also helps.

There are some new medications coming which can help decrease the chance of becoming critically ill if you are infected with COVID-19. These need to be taken early after symptoms start and have many potential side effects and drug interactions.

If you are a high-risk patient with chronic illnesses, you should contact your primary care provider if you develop symptoms. These medications are in extremely short supply and will not be the answer to stopping COVID-19.

Our hospital, like most others in the whole country, is facing obstacles with high volumes of patients and trouble with staffing shortages. These shortages are not from employees being fired or quitting because of vaccine.

These shortages are a result of tired and sick healthcare workers who are struggling to continue helping others. The shortage of workers, supplies, medications and blood products will affect everyone’s healthcare in the coming days. Please do your part to avoid COVID-19 and stay safe and healthy.”

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  • Pretty scary times. Time to be concerned not only for our health but also that of our neighbors. Would be nice if the churches would cast aside their political ideology and speak up in favor of vaccination and masks. Who Is better positioned to speak up for concern for our fellow man? The hospital could definitely use our support and cooperation.

    -- Posted by ellis2 on Tue, Jan 11, 2022, at 12:54 PM
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    So this is not his exact statement and words have been added?

    -- Posted by Orion's Belt on Tue, Jan 11, 2022, at 10:15 PM
  • @Localcitizen1 - 1. The vaccinated and unvaccinated are spreading the virus. Not one or the other. 2. The vaccine does work. Look at the FACTS. Not speculations, not theories, but actual hard numbers. It baffles me that many people aren't willing to accept the statistics hospitals report. An overwhelming majority of those critical sick are not vaccinated. How hard is that to comprehend?

    -- Posted by MJ7 on Thu, Jan 13, 2022, at 5:12 PM
  • MJ7. Just look at the FACTS? So much is being suppressed by the media as many are paid by Big Pharma. Take a look at the VAERS reporting for yourself! There are so many adverse reactions and deaths from this so called vaccine. Countries and states that are highly vaccinated have huge problems with outbreaks. Doctors and nurses everywhere are willing to quit their jobs due to the jab mandates! Remember, there is no federal approved vaccine available for covid! We only have an emergency use authorization! What will be the long term effects? We don't know! What are the effects on pregnant women? We don't know! How does it affect children! We don't know. Everything that these people pushing the vaccine told us has been proven wrong! The media has an agenda! Healthy sports stars all over the world are collapsing due to heart or lung issues! The truth is out there! The vaccine companies wanted to wait 75 years before they gave us all their research from the vaccines! Why is that? Thankfully, the courts ruled otherwise. More evidence will be coming...

    -- Posted by Localcitizen1 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 8:12 AM
  • If the vaccines work, why do the vaccinated spread the virus? If the vaccines work, how come the vaccinated can GET the virus? If the vaccines work, why do the vaccinated have to wear masks? If the vaccines work, why do people have to be threatened to get them?

    Please understand people, these are NOT vaccines. This is mRna gene therapy that has NEVER been attempted on society! Finding out the truth too late will not help you. (If my comments are removed, I won't be surprised.)

    -- Posted by Localcitizen1 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 8:31 AM
  • Localcitizen1 - Yes...FACTS! All of this nonsense you are spewing is a narrative of one side of the media. Use research that is reviewed by others (peers) and accepted by other professionals within that community. They are not all paid off by big Pharma. Your conspiracies are just simply untrue. The media is not what it used to be. You are correct, they have an agenda - to obtain viewers for ratings and money. It is entertainment at best. Shut off the TV and get FACTS from reputable sources.

    All vaccines in history have started just like this. There will always be some sort of uncertainty at the beginning but, they have always saved more lives than caused harm to. Again, the only statistic I need is the amount of people who are in the hospital and have passed are overwhelmingly unvaccinated.

    -- Posted by MJ7 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 11:29 AM
  • Danish study shows that:

    1. Those 'VAXXED' are 1.7 X more likely to get infection than 'UNVAXXED' AND

    2. Those 'VAXXED' & 'BOOSTED' are 3.1 X more likely to get infection than 'UNVAXXED'!!!

    -- Posted by Localcitizen1 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 12:02 PM
  • Share the actual study, please!

    -- Posted by MJ7 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 12:09 PM
  • Guess what, it's the jabbed medical workers who are getting sick and spreading it. I know a friend, his wife is a nurse and is not jabbed . . . there was an outbreak of the virus last week in her unit where 11 of the 12 covid positives were all jabbed! She is keeping her job under a religious exemption, along with a few others. Nursing shortages abound because of this mandate, which is making it way more dangerous for patients due to short staffing and stressed/overworked nurses. There is no covid danger to the nurses or patients . . . it's all lies. The danger is forcing the jab!!

    The spike protein is the contagion. It is in the injection, and it spreads from the poor souls who've been violated to everyone around them for a few weeks after. This is why the push for constant boosters. Not enough people have been violated yet to meet the depopulation agenda (Bill Gates admitted this openly years ago) and now the jig is almost up. The tests are not only inaccurate, but they are also testing for something that is easily found in the majority of humanity; hence the high "case count" It easily keeps the fear factor flowing while the main business of destroying the world's last bastion of individual liberty may continue unimpeded. How else do we expect "fundamental change" to take place? What need do we have to fundamentally change our freedoms as laid out by our original constitution? This nation has been undergoing change throughout its entire existence, just not fast enough for some two-faced, graceless, misguided or malevolent idealogues.

    -- Posted by Localcitizen1 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 12:09 PM
  • -- Posted by Localcitizen1 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 12:11 PM
  • Rumble.com!?!? LOL...there is part of your problem. You are unaware that sites like these spew misinformation and are not reliable sources. Anyone from anywhere can make any claim they want. Please don't take this as being derogatory as this is part of the problem our society deals with. Someone makes a BS claim on a site like this, millions of people see it and run with it and accept as gospel.

    Your research should be geared towards learning to find factual information

    https://scholar.google.com/ is a good place to start.

    -- Posted by MJ7 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 12:40 PM
  • Google? That's YOUR problem! You mean Google the company that supports completely the main stream philosophy and Big Pharmaceutical companies? They are all in bed together!

    Watch the video with an open mind. That is part of the scientific method, to look at all research! Please prove one claim that is WRONG in that video and I'll respond with even more suppressed proof that you have to dig for!

    -- Posted by Localcitizen1 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 12:58 PM
  • I have read more medical journals than I care to admit. Journals that are peer reviewed, present scientific FACT, and accepted in the unbiased medical field. The scientific method you speak of consists of using facts and best at the time information. When new findings are presented, the "science" changes. You pulling information from extremely biased sources is the exact opposite of what the scientific method demonstrates.

    Since you don't like google, try www.jstor.org. Stay healthy and have a great day!

    -- Posted by MJ7 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 1:10 PM
  • LocalCitizen1 ---- rumble.com? seriously? MJ7 has the correct perspective. Don't settle for non-peer reviewed research. Stop with the non-sense. If you truly believe half of what you have taken much time to write here, then validate your statements with peer reviewed, validated and replicated research. If you really want to stand on your statements without any type of authentic scientific research, then you might as well say the day has 25 hours instead of 24, or that the ocean has only 3 species of fish in it.

    -- Posted by jhineman2 on Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 2:08 PM
  • In an earlier post, LocalCitizen1 made this statement:

    "Remember, there is no federal approved vaccine available for covid!". Fortunately, this is not a true statement according to this press release from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration on August 23, 2021.

    https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-...

    -- Posted by sfm_1946 on Thu, Jan 20, 2022, at 5:57 PM
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