How Omicron is affecting Hospitals
Turns out a lot of the Covid hospitalizations, that are inflating the numbers, are not really 'sick' people.
A well-written, balanced article of what is really going on in the Hospitals. It's not as dire as the news would have us believe. They're being overrun with people coming in with mild symptoms, in 'fear' of having Covid. Apparently they're finding the hospital's problems are more from the Hysteria than the actual virus.
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Some Canadian emergency rooms are being walloped by “ridiculous” numbers of people with suspected or confirmed COVID, with symptoms ranging from what essentially resembles a mild cold to, in the unvaccinated and vulnerable, severe COVID pneumonias, frontline doctors are reporting.
Some are arriving in hospital with minimal symptoms, driven there instead by anxiety or a desire to confirm their COVID status, and with having had no clearly communicated advice on what to do if they do get COVID.
“We are still catastrophizing COVID,” said Dr. Martha Fulford, an infectious diseases specialist and chief of medicine at the McMaster University Medical Center. “We have somehow made when you have a positive result equal disaster in a lot of people’s minds.”
“The emotion and fear are so overwhelming. It’s very difficult to try to break through this,” Fulford said.
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“What we are seeing is people who are being admitted because they are extremely weak, dizzy, a fall risk.” Severe lung inflammation was a major issue in wave one, with people suffering respiratory distress and respiratory failure. “That’s not so much an issue this time,” Legome said. “We’re not seeing a huge number of COVID pneumonia and people requiring intensive respiratory support. We’re not seeing that very much at all.”
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“Of all the patients we have with Omicron, the vast, vast majority are going home,” Legome said. Of those hospitalized, “It tends to be the patients who would be admitted otherwise: You’re 90 years old, you have underlying pulmonary disease, heart failure, you have a hip replacement, you don’t get along well at baseline and then you have Omicron on top of that and you just can’t get out of bed. It’s that type that we’re seeing more of,” he said.
Good read , some factual info for a change: [/QUOTE] https://nationalpost.com/health/we-a...pital-patients
