US hospitals are under great pressure, there are essentially three reasons for this.
Ontario, Canada, largest province in Canada, population of 15 million.
Several weeks ago we were told to STOP going for testing unless we were in a high risk category,
so the number of cases is dramatically under-reported,
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/this-is-who-can-and-can-t-get-a-covid-19-test-in-ontario-1.5723794
So when you see cases dropping in Canada and the R value decreasing, its completely inaccurate, Ontario represents almost half of the popular of the entire country.
Steve
US hospital pressure
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/for-covid-with-covid-hospitals-are-mess-either-way/621229/
With or for covid
Jeremy Faust, emergency physician Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts
The truth is, we’re still in the emergency phase of the pandemic,
and everyone who is downplaying that should probably take a tour of a hospital before they do
Sara Murray, hospitalist at UC San Francisco
If a virus that causes less severe lung disease affects an extraordinarily large proportion of the population,
you’ll still get a lot of them in the hospital with severe lung disease
Factors
Low vaccination uptake
Comorbidities
Residual circulation of delta
Post delta infection
Omicron areas, lower hospital admissions
Dr. Walensky
I suspect the deaths we are seeing now are still from Delta
James Lawler, infectious-disease physician, University of Nebraska Medical Center
the vast majority of our COVID-positive cases are at the hospital for reasons related to their COVID infection
Two neat categories, with and for
Vineet Arora, a hospitalist at the University of Chicago Medicine
If you’re on the margin of coming into the hospital, COVID tips you over
COVID might not be listed as a reason for admission, but no COVID, no admission
These incidental infections are not so incidental for people with chronic conditions
We have a lot of chronically ill people in the U.S., and it’s like all of those people are now coming into the hospital at the same time
So, its 3 categories
For covid
With covid that exacerbated a chronic condition
Truly incidentals
Craig Spencer, emergency physician, Columbia University Medical Center
The health-care system is in crisis and on the verge of collapse
It doesn’t matter whether it’s with or for. It’s a pure deluge of numbers
Mr Donald J. Trump
Boosters, politicians who refused to say whether they had received one were “gutless”
The fact is that I think the vaccines saved tens of millions throughout the world
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/01/12/world/omicron-covid-testing-vaccines?type=styln-live-updates&label=coronavirus%20updates&index=0#the-white-house-says-it-is-considering-offering-high-quality-masks-to-americans
Dysphunc
I’ve had Covid-19 for 3 days now – 2nd vaccination dose 1 month ago.
It just feels like a bad case of Pharyngitis.
Congested sinus, gunky sore throat and bronchial tract inflamed.
Occasional painful aspiration but nothing like when I had double Pneumonia.
Oximeter reporting 95-98% the whole time so far which is reassuring.
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