Katherine Lockler, RN, works at several emergency rooms in northwest Florida and filmed the video after a 12-hour night shift. In the video, Ms. Lockler highlights the severity of this year’s flu season and encourages people to take special precautions when visiting a hospital, including washing their “stinking hands.”
She also urges people to avoid “the cesspool of funky flu at the ER,” unless absolutely necessary.
“Please don’t bring your healthy children — especially your newborn babies — into the emergency room,” Ms. Lockler said in the video. “And if you don’t have what I call a true emergency, this would not be a time to come to the emergency room.”
The video has gone viral this week, garnering 5.3 million views, 101,000 shares and 25,000 likes on Facebook as of Feb. 2.
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