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there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk I know several people who had to delay surgeries and other medical procedures because of hospital capacity
by kevinventullo 5y ago
there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk
I know several people who had to delay surgeries and other medical procedures because of hospital capacity due to COVID.
- Lammy 5y agoA person in my family had to delay a major procedure too, but the excuse was that it "wasn't safe" like they were being done a favor :/
- treeman79 5y agoI had to delay and miss many appointments because everything was shutdown due to pandemic. Nearly died from it. Many others did die because they stopped getting routine care.
- spookthesunset 5y agoCovid didn’t shut down that stuff. The government did. And it was a bad call…
- spookthesunset 5y agoNope. It was due to hospitals being on edge and delaying elective surgery "just in case". COVID didn't cause capacity issues at hospitals, humans reaction to covid did.
- clysm 5y agoDo you have a source on that? I know multiple nurses and doctors who were re-assigned to help with COVID patients, or came out of retirement to help with staffing shortages.
- spookthesunset 5y agoThere won’t be a source. It will take a decade of research to show my hypotheses as valid or invalid. No way can it be measured now… too many hot heads. But I’d wager a lot of money that I’m right and most of the hospital issues were self-created problems caused by testing everything with a pulse. That’s my hypothesis and I’m sticking to it!
- nradov 5y agoI know multiple nurses and doctors who had their hours drastically cut for months. They weren't re-assigned to help with COVID patients.
- CWuestefeld 5y agoAFAIK, this happened, but was consistently due to proactive closures in expectation of overcrowding that nearly never came to pass. Although a lot of ink was spilled on the potential for hospitals being overrun, there were vanishingly few cases in which it actually happened.