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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Dude, my local hospital said, at the height of Omicron, unless you have a life threatening problem do not come to our ER, go to urgent care. I’m not one to denigrate docs, but urgent care isn’t always good care. I’m sure this problem is not limited to Detroit. It is not a minor thing.
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It’s not. But in aggregate, omicron:
1. Has much bigger footprint;
2. But far fewer hospitalizations; and,
3. Far shorter hospitalizations
Also, the backlog in hospitals is partly caused by zero tolerance policies (I know people denied a procedure because of the day of, they tested positive for omicron) and a stable of patients still to be seen for procedures either delayed by Delta shutdowns or required to be performed on an emergent basis because care was delayed because of Delta.
My comment at issue referred explicitly to the variant of the moment - omicron. Does it excuse nitwits from not getting vaccinated? No.
There’s a whole lotta reasons for the backlog. Omicron is one. Of many. When the data is parsed years from now, I think the worst of this thing will have been Delta. That had a large footprint and still pretty solid lethality.
