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Originally Posted by carlos3652
I agree staffing is a bitch right now. Burnout and Layoffs because of shor mandates don’t help.
I’m not a health care expert. I just posted an Atlantic article that stated almost 60% of hospitalizations are mild to asymptomatic. Twice as much as it was pre delta and why numbers were at an all time high.
Remember when you couldn’t even go to the hospital or take a covid test unless you had severe symptoms last year? Remember when they canceled all elective surgeries? Told people to stay home unless you were dying?
Well they didn’t do that this year based on information given to them by the CDC. They weren’t prepared, they didn’t plan or budget accordingly because they believed the worst was behind them.
I’m not blaming hospitals for this mess. Just trying to bring perspective to the notion that I think it was a perfect storm and more than half of the patients in hospitals are not in bad shape AT ALL from Covid.
Cases are going down, hospitalizations are going down, hopefully deaths also. Hoping the next wave is not as bad.
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In Canada and I assume a lot of other countries having empty beds is better financially for the institution, our ICUs/hospitals have had similar struggles with delta , your are not getting admitted unless you need it you hospitals normally don't have the spare beds for that.