From WALB:
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Paramedics would still respond to 911 calls and examine every patient, but would not automatically take everyone to the hospital.
“We’ll actually advise them, ‘Hey, you don’t need to go to the hospital. We’re not going to take you by ambulance to the hospital, because you don’t need to be in the emergency room,’” Zavadsky said.
Those who insist on going would still go, but not in an expensive ambulance.
“We’ll arrange for transportation for them either by taxi or sedan,” he said. “We’ll pay for that trip.”
It would be a one-way ride, not necessarily to an emergency room, but to an emergency clinic, where flu patients could be better separated from other patients to avoid spreading the disease.
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