fell in love with a clown at a clown show wrote:
putty wrote:
The people are coming into the hospitals WITH COVID not because of COVID. Please learn the difference. Omicron is not very dangerous and we will all be exposed. Take care of your body, don't be a fat a$$, take your vitamin D and zinc often (especially if you are in northern cloudy states or you are a POC). Last but not least, stop watching the news and being concerned with COVID unless you have 4+ comorbidities or are elderly.
This doesn't matter. Who do you think is in the hospital? elderly and sick people. If someone comes in with a broken leg, and they have Covid, they're now a risk to every patient in the hospital.
Stop being such a selfish prock and think about literally anybody else but yourself.
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With omicron probably 30-50% of hospitalized patients with omicron are in the hospital with Covid rather than for Covid. See the article below by my work colleagues for a responsible review of the topic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/07/hospitalization-covid-statistics-incidental/However, there’s a lot of gray area. Even if Covid is not what is putting you in the hospital it may impact your outcome. Having Covid patients in the hospital is an enormous strain because of all the isolation requirements. Yes, other patients have acquired Covid once arriving at the hospital and have died.
In terms of being overwhelmed, yes, there’s the obvious ventilated patients in the cafeteria overwhelmed. This may be rare these days, but most places have significant delays in care for other things because of Covid from getting your elective surgery to seeing your family doctor. At my hospital we have 75 patients with Covid now up from 5-10 before New Years, Because of this the operating room schedule is frozen. I hope nobody thinks this is good and would do what they could to mitigate this problem.