{"id":731070,"date":"2021-09-08T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=731070"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:21:34","slug":"americans-turned-away-from-hospital-as-afghan-refugees-take-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-turned-away-from-hospital-as-afghan-refugees-take-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Turned Away From Hospital As Afghan Refugees Take Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-turned-away-from-hospital-as-afghan-refugees-take-priority%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=731070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1337510198-afghans.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An influx of refugees is straining Northern Virginia to the point that native-born Americans are being turned away from a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA hospital near the Dulles Expo Center that federal officials designated as a go-to spot for medical treatment began running out of available beds, forcing the hospital to turn away non-Afghan patients who weren\u2019t in need of critical care,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/afghan-crisis-wreaking-havoc-on-northern-virginia-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-federal-planning-local-officials-say\/2021\/09\/07\/5642a2aa-0fef-11ec-bc8a-8d9a5b534194_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is treating Afghans who have been transported by the planeload to Dulles Airport outside D.C. following the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban control of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Post cited Kristen Nickerson, executive director of the Northern Virginia Emergency Response System, a small board which she said is not set up or prepared to take care of refugees, but which has had to fill a gap.<\/p>\n<p>The tracking of refugees in hospitals has been so disorganized that a one-month-old infant was temporarily lost, and the situation was so \u201cterrible\u201d that it added to the \u201ctrauma\u201d of refugees who were beaten by the Taliban, Nickerson said.<\/p>\n<p>Area leaders are asking the Biden administration to shoulder some of the burden placed on the community, to little avail.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax County Executive Bryan Hill told The Post \u201cIt\u2019s been very difficult to even get with the federal government on what the next steps are.\u201d The county has spent at least $300,000 tracking and transporting Afghans to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo meet the current need, we are leveraging what little resources we have to augment the existing team at the moment, but this is not sustainable with only a staff of 12,\u201d local leaders wrote to Virginia\u2019s secretary of health and human resources August 28.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the existing load already straining the system, J. Stephen Jones, a hospital executive, told The Post that several dozen more planes full of Afghans are scheduled to arrive at Dulles airport this week.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the refugees are staying at military compounds, including the Marine Corps base in Quantico.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said in a statement that he \u201cwill continue to do everything he can to ensure that Virginia\u2019s hospitals \u2014 many of which are already strained with covid-19 patients \u2014 have the resources they need to care for our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Warner compared the Afghans favorably to Americans, saying they agreed to take coronavirus vaccines at a higher rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to be offered vaccines,\u201d Warner said. \u201cGood news is they\u2019re taking them at a higher rate than Virginians,\u201d he said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/2021\/08\/25\/va-congresswoman-dod-authorizes-fort-pickett-temporarily-house-afghan-refugees\/\">NBC-12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lee in Virginia, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, Fort Bliss in Texas, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey are also set up to temporarily house about 50,000 refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, liberals were in an uproar when Rolling Stone reported that people, including gunshot victims, were being turned away from an Oklahoma hospital because it was burdened by people who had taken ivermectin to treat coronavirus. That story turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-ivermectin-overdoses-didnt-overwhelm-oklahoma-hospitals-and-force-gunshot-victims-to-wait\">false<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">counter-cultural<\/span>&nbsp;outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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