Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) is downplaying the rise in deaths and hospitalization as hospitals across the country struggle to find staff, beds and oxygen because of the Delta surge.
In an interview with Real America’s Voice on Thursday, Greene said she spoke to hospital officials who told her that waiting rooms are not flooded with just COVID patients.
“The waiting rooms are full of all kinds of things, not just COVID,” Greene said. “So while the news tries to tell us the hospitals are slam-packed with COVID, that’s just not the case.”
As for deaths due to the virus, Greene said we should all just get over it and realize that we are humans and will not live forever.
“Everybody needs to get back down to common sense and remember that, you know, we’re human,” she said. “We can’t live forever, we’re going to catch all kinds of diseases and illnesses and other viruses, and we get hurt sometimes.”
Greene’s comments come as hospitals in COVID hotspots struggle to find enough beds and workers to care for people sick with COVID-19.
The Delta variant has swept through the South among the unvaccinated population with such veracity that hospitals in the region are unable to keep up.
Mississippi is out of intensive care unit (ICU) beds. The University of Mississippi Medical Center — the state’s largest health system — is converting part of a parking garage into a field hospital to make more room, according to the Washington Post.
There are only eight ICU beds left Arkansas. Metro Atlanta hospitals are diverting patients because they were full. Meanwhile, hospitals in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas are canceling elective surgeries, as they are flooded with COVID patients.
