Ah, facts and accurate terminology are pesky. I wonder if the author of the article: - Is a doctor - With a PhD ontop of the medical degree - Who works in an E

Ah, facts and accurate terminology are pesky. I wonder if the author of the article: - Is a doctor - With a PhD ontop of the medical degree - Who works in an ER setting - and is able to specifically know and understand what the word pandemic means ... In the context of a blog post about ER throughput. Let me just check for a second and, oh look at that: the author is all of those four points. COVID infected huge numbers of people, and variants of it continue to reinfect. Long term problems exist in a significant number of people - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2 COVID has not magically vanished: https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-network/diagnostics/covid-19-variant-update/#/+/0/publishedDate_na_dt/desc/ https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-networ... It is very much still a pandemic, if for some reason you do not believe that. Otherwise I have to assume you are rejecting the entire article because you do agree it's still a pandemic, but for some reason can't picture why long term effects of COVID may have a relationship to hospital presentations and complexity of cases.