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This is a recent experience I have had among many. I am a healthcare worker. I will keep the circuмstances as unidentifiable and vague as I possibly can.

I was called to a "facility" to assist a particular patient with a certain issue. The patient was a mid-sixties, obese, chronic multi  co-morbidity patient who has lived at the facility for 15 years. Patient was immobile in bed. patient was conscious ,mentally intact and speaking appropriately. Patient states that he/she as had fevers of 101- and 103F for 10 days. Patient was extremely short of breath. Patient also stated that that he/she was unable to eat or drink for many days. it was not observable that he/she has had any other method of obtaining fluids mechanically ( IV or feeding tube) at the time of my arrival. According to the NP, patient was tested for COVID19 but results were not back, but it was "accepted" that patient had the virus and was "treated"(??) as such. As far as I could tell the patient did not have a chest x-ray to determine if he/she had pneumonia,( at least recently)  or anything else.
Normally, a patient this sick would  be transferred to the hospital. With the COVID19 designation, patient was not transferred. The NP told me (at the desk) that this person will die of "COVID19" in the next 24 or 48 hrs- it was a given.
As  far as I'm concerned, anyone with a high fever for 10 days with no replacement fluids and severe respiratory issues will die. There was some rectification of this that day, but it was very late in the patient's course of events.
It is my impression that this patient WILL die very shortly, a Catholic (  Holy pictures at the bedside)without the sacraments, isolated  and without family present.
There is a trend to label older, chronically ill patients with fevers as COVID19 "confirmed" with testing or not. If this virus didn't exist, many patients frequently, with the same presentation and are sent to the hospital for treatment. In this case and others I have seen, the designation of COVID19 in the chronic and the elderly give the attending medical authorities license to ignore general symptoms and accept the "inevitable"outcome of death by COVID19. They are covered ( by the government) for negligence and ineptitude by the diagnosis.  

I hate to say it, but whoever is on duty, be it a protestant, rabbi or muslim, priest, whoever, is to play the role.  So, if a rabbi is on duty, they play priest.

I hate to say it, but whoever is on duty, be it a protestant, rabbi or muslim, priest, whoever, is to play the role.  So, if a rabbi is on duty, they play priest.

Anyone other than a priest would be simulating a sacrament.