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Point is doctors are not robots, they enjoy a significant amount of autonomy, and I still believe that all other things being equal, many doctors are more likel
by listenallyall 5y ago
Point is doctors are not robots, they enjoy a significant amount of autonomy, and I still believe that all other things being equal, many doctors are more likely to admit an unvaxxed Covid-positive patient than a vaxxed Covid-positive, because they believe that the unvaxxed patient has a higher risk of more serious symptoms.
- nradov 5y agoSo you have a belief, but no actual data or even anecdotes to back it up.
- listenallyall 5y agoNearly half of Omicron admissions released a day later. Did they magically recover overnight, or were they admitted with mild symptoms in the first place, just as a precautionary measure? Early data from France suggests omicron patients leave hospital far more quickly - including 43 per cent in less than a day https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/omicron-leads-much-shorter-hospital-stays-californian-study/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas... (at Kaiser Permanente Southern California) Among 154 Omicron variant-infected patients who completed hospitalization by January 1, 2022, 129 (83.8%) were discharged in ≤2 days https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v1.full-text https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v...