We’ll never even be able to calculate all of the unnecessary deaths that have resulted from the lock downs and ER’s/Hospitals basically shutting down for everything other than CCPV and Trauma cases.
How many will die of cancer because they couldn’t get in and get diagnosed early? How many because they couldn’t get surgery? How many excess deaths due to common ailments like heart disease, diabetes etc that couldn’t get treated?
The panic induced by the media is responsible for the overreaction and the deaths that resulted from it.
It’s really messed up I frequent reddit some and the subreddit /coronavirus is filled with people who are basically saying stay in until a vaccine arrives. If you post something to the contrary of that they downvote the hell out of it.
And you are right hospitals are empty and in the meantime while congress just pushed a stimulus bill which called for a major increase in H1-B visas for medical positions (Basically will drive down wages like they have been doing in I.T. for years) medical staff are being laid of by the thousands because they are not needed as the hospitals lay empty.
In my lifetime this is turning out to be the worst handled crisis I have seen the U.S. government handle while the media has been stoking the with 24/7 fear coverage to make a large percentage of the population of the U.S. so afraid to go outside they would choose economic ruin over what probably is under a 1% chance of death.
They all need to be voted out. I am reading some forecasts that many universities will cease to exist after this as people will be to afraid to go to school unless there is a vaccine and they will have to close because the universities will fold.
And we should give credit to news agencies like Fox where they’ve had presenters trying to focus on reasons for hope and who have been trying to oppose with rational analysis the irrational panic-peddling of most MSM
Yes, that is what we do. All COVID patients go to wards and floors specifically for and only for COVID patients to lower the risk to other patients. At our hospital we emptied out multiple floors strictly for COVID patients. Once we started a decline, floors were closed, sterilized and brought back to the general population of patients.
Whether that constitutes a “COVID ward” is semantics.
Almost certainly. We’ll never be able to quantify the damage that’s been done by shutting down so much of the rest of the medical system for so long.
How many unnecessary deaths from things like cancer, heart disease, diabetes etc are gong to result from people not getting in for early detection/treatment?
As long as that Hospital wasn’t mine I would be all for it. I hated that whole mess, it was insanely stressful. But would that targeted hospital hold up? Imagine what a nightmare that place would be. There would be folks jumping off the roof there.
Spreading it out a bit, I think, helped. But it did suck.
One interesting aspect to this is that, for the past 20 years, hospitals have really compartmentalized care. There is not just a hospital, there is also a surgical center, a heart center, a cancer center.
That may have been a blessing in disguise, segregating the care the way we have. Our cancer center is not even attached to the main hospital, our surgical center is 4 miles away. So patients should still feel safe going there. Our heart center is within the hospital though, so we did take a bit of a hit. Coming back pretty strongly now, though.
No, it’s over 90 percent elective. But any one of them can turn into an Emergency, for sure.
Heart Hospitals, with no other clients, are becoming more and more of a thing. We have one downtown that the DMC runs, but it isn’t doing well because they run things pretty bad.
But, for instance, in Indiana, I saw two heart hospitals literally a block from each other. Seen quite a few in Houston as well.
Very good point. I am past my checkup point and just called my doctors office. He is reopening but not seeing patients over 60 until June. If my tests were to come back showing some serious disease that was missed for a couple of months because he was not seeing patients, would that show up in some statistic somewhere?
with 24/7 fear coverage to make a large percentage of the population of the U.S. so afraid to go outside they would choose economic ruin over what probably is under a 1% chance of death.
