Positive rates in certain parts of the county are easily around 50% or higher.
Not all admissions for covid are icu admissions. Even hypoxic patients can be monitored in step down units or on the floor. The time from admission to discharge has decreased and so has survival rates on the sickest individuals due to plasma and antiviral therapy. The intubation is still a last resort and death rates after that are pretty much only slightly improved.
Yes there are patients admitted for appendicitis, heart attacks and all other ailments that are testing positive before admission without covid symptoms but not many to say it’s a significant number.
Yes there are still people dying and they follow the same age groups as stated before.
Yes there a huge number of young people testing positive and are going home giving to mom and abuelito and still carrying on like they dgaf.
Advice: if your fat get on keto now and go walking 2 times a day in shorts with you shirt off, man ****ies be damned. Vitamin D is essential.
If you smoke cigarettes that’s on you.
If you don’t think this can get worse it absolutely can.
Just cause we can admit someone and discharge them quickly doesn’t mean we can do it for everyone if we start getting swamped and it’s getting almost there and if plasma and antivirals run out then we’re still better off than before but not by much.
My hope is this just reaches a peak and the country gets immunity. From an epidemiological standpoint this is fascinating to observe.
Other than that let’s hope it eventually goes away quick and not for football reasons.
Also, we don’t know the long term damage for patients who become hypoxic and require admissions. CT scans look like sht and potential long term lung complications are yet to be determined.
For all you morons listening to any social media postings either left right middle on top on the bottom that say this is just another flu.....
