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verushka70 will give you all the details about this comment scam being perpetrated by bots in fic comments on AO3. Do not react to the bot threats that falsely claim they are from AO3! Check out her very important warning in her DW post.

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This is a direct quotation from the DW of squidgiepdx who is in the healthcare field:

For those of you not in the medical field, as an FYI if you have any elective medical procedures you're planning, you might want to press pause. The factory where 1.5million bags of IV fluids are produced daily was taken out by Helene. Right now, nearly every hospital and health system in the US (possibly Canada & Mexico, too) are starting to feel the effects of rationed IV fluids. We used to use cases of fluid every day, but because of Helene, we are down to 40% of what we used to get.

Because I work in Healthcare IT, it fell on me and my coworkers to carry the brunt of all the changes that had to be made. Used to be that you'd show up for your procedure and they'd automatically start an IV drip. Everything we have built for physicians supported that model. Now? We had to redesign not only surgery and procedures workflows, but we also had to programatically ration IV fluids the best way we could.

This information is slowly starting to get out to the public, and trust me - there will be people that will be negatively impacted by this. Maybe not die (though severe trauma patients may not be able to get all the fluids they need, and they might not make it) but not necessarily have the best outcome, either.

Hug your local healthcare worker. This is gonna be bad for the next while. They're saying 6 months before we can expect relief.

morgandawn requested I signal boost this additional info re: Yahoo Groups: additional info re: Yahoo Groups.

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