DESPERATE PLEAS for ICU bed for mom via @Facebook—A son frantically tries to find hospital ICU bed w/ ECMO to save his mom—by **publicly begging** on FB. Nurse+doctor from York PA sees the son’s FB pleas, calls his cell, offers to help—mom successfully transferred! #COVID19

2) Question is — how and why have we come to this?? That a son even needed to do this to save his mom is so crazy.

Link to initial post: https://m.facebook.com/shawn.rider.771/posts/10164322978695501

3) at this rate, we won’t have ICU beds or ECMO machines for long. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1334703963074158592

4) Meanwhile, listen to the premier of Manitoba also beg people to stay home for Christmas. Manitoba is right across border from North Dakota. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1334669497588969479

5) Here is a longer story of what happened. The son shares the story in efforts to warn other. https://m.facebook.com/shawn.rider.771/posts/10164325016355501