All fine and well…we’ll… we have a month or more of this to go thru.
While Omicron is less severe…and as I saw this morning in my own state, deaths are down and so are intensive care admits. ER visits are sky high and so are admissions.
Which is good for your state. However in areas of some states ICU beds are getting filled up. And I have heard doctors in those hospitals really worry about cases of heart attack or stroke that may not have a ICU bed available. The whole point of this is to keep hospital admissions at a controllable rate.
This CDC data shows that hospitalizations are spiking. We don’t have a clue yet on the impact of holiday travel and visits.
ER visits don’t necessarily indicate severe disease. The spread of home test sets is causing some people to go to the ER to verify positives with a PCR test. How much of the ER visits are due to this misuse?
People with no insurance go to the ER for broken fingernails. I can easily imagine the media-induced panic sending them running because of a cough or sneeze.
Yes, in Vermont people who test positive with home tests are overloading with ER looking for a confirmation test even though they have little or no symptoms.
On top of that, the hospitals are short staffed since they fired anyone who refused to get the vaccine and their fully vaccinated staff are quarantined with Omicron.
Yes, it looks like reality is starting to seep into the White House.
The vaccines were supposed to prevent COVID infections. Delta showed that outbreaks among the vaccinated were possible. Omicron is making the vaccines obsolete.
Omicron is likely to end the pandemic before the Biden vaccine mandate can take effect. Will he withdraw them?
Or is the real point about forcing everyone to get vaccinated even when the public health justification has completely evaporated?
“Look, there is no federal solution,” he said during a call with state governors. “This gets solved at state level … and that ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road, and that’s where the patient is in need of help — or preventing the need for help.”