Ransomware forces Texas hospital to turn away ambulances

Only level-one trauma unit in 400 miles crippled

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Essential services like hospitals really need to come up with a low-tech emergency pen-and-paper with carbon copies plan for these sort of ransomware situations, because they won't stop happening.
- This incorrectly assumes there aren't downtime procedures in place.
  
  Turning away ambulances suggest there aren't. Not effective ones anyway.
Analogue systems with proper efficiency should be in place in moments of crisis like this