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US hospitals seeing different kind of COVID surge this time
RODRIQUE NGOWI, MICHAEL CASEY and DON THOMPSON
Dr. Fritz François, chief of hospital operations at NYU Langone Health in New York City, said about 65% of patients admitted to that system with COVID-19 recently were primarily hospitalized for something else and were incidentally found to have the virus.
At two large Seattle hospitals over the past two weeks, three-quarters of the 64 patients testing positive for the coronavirus were admitted with a primary diagnosis other than COVID-19.
Joanne Spetz, associate director of research at the Healthforce Center at the University of California, San Francisco, said the rising number of cases like that is both good and bad.
Well this is where we are. Every day another new surge of some variant where the vaccines are working so well that there are surges everywhere.
Ahhhhh
The mild symptoms. So, no big deal then?
Yeeees?
Notion?
Oh, right. Demonization.
RODRIQUE NGOWI, MICHAEL CASEY and DON THOMPSON
Dr. Fritz François, chief of hospital operations at NYU Langone Health in New York City, said about 65% of patients admitted to that system with COVID-19 recently were primarily hospitalized for something else and were incidentally found to have the virus.
At two large Seattle hospitals over the past two weeks, three-quarters of the 64 patients testing positive for the coronavirus were admitted with a primary diagnosis other than COVID-19.
Joanne Spetz, associate director of research at the Healthforce Center at the University of California, San Francisco, said the rising number of cases like that is both good and bad.
US hospitals seeing different kind of COVID surge this time
This time, they are dealing with serious staff shortages because so many health care workers are getting sick with the fast-spreading variant. Intensive care units aren’t as full, and ventilators aren’t needed as much as they were before. Nearly two years into the pandemic, frustration and...
www.yahoo.com
Well this is where we are. Every day another new surge of some variant where the vaccines are working so well that there are surges everywhere.
Ahhhhh
The mild symptoms. So, no big deal then?
Yeeees?
Notion?
Oh, right. Demonization.