US hospital concerns

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,

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

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

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.