Coronavirus (No politics)

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Regulator said:
From a small, local level, I can tell you this. Last winter and into the spring, we hardly admitted any kids to the hospital because they weren’t sick. Nobody was testing positive for flu or RSV. About 5-6 weeks ago, we started seeing lots of RSV and kids getting admitted all the time. The last couple weeks, we’ve been getting slammed with COVID again, at least as bad as back in December/January, if not worse. Seeing some COVID in the Peds population also, but none of those have required admission, to my knowledge. I just assigned two beds for COVID+ adults, one 35, the other 42, which has been the age group we’ve seen most this time around, folks < 50 years old. This 35 year old probably won’t survive.
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Regulator said:
From a small, local level, I can tell you this. Last winter and into the spring, we hardly admitted any kids to the hospital because they weren’t sick. Nobody was testing positive for flu or RSV. About 5-6 weeks ago, we started seeing lots of RSV and kids getting admitted all the time. The last couple weeks, we’ve been getting slammed with COVID again, at least as bad as back in December/January, if not worse. Seeing some COVID in the Peds population also, but none of those have required admission, to my knowledge. I just assigned two beds for COVID+ adults, one 35, the other 42, which has been the age group we’ve seen most this time around, folks < 50 years old. This 35 year old probably won’t survive.
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We had to take our son to the pediatrician for an RSV test due to an outbreak at daycare. I asked the doctor what they are seeing with kids and he pretty much described what you did. They are seeing mostly asymptomatic cases of Covid in the kids (getting tested due to exposure and parents having it) but the rsv numbers have shot up drastically. He said their practice (big practice with 4/5 locations in town) is diagnosing around 30-40 rsv cases a day the last couple weeks. He said that his perception was they weren’t seeing much of a difference in the delta Covid cases for kids in relation to amount or severity compared to the original strain. He said that he was only aware of 2 children that their practice has admitted to the hospital for Covid since the pandemic started. I have no way to fact check any of that but sounds like your experience is fairly on par with that.
 
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GAVol said:
The statistical warfare of the past 18 months has been exhausting. Raw numbers are all I want to see. How many are sick? How many are being hospitalized? How many beds are available? And what is the trend for all 3?
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Agreed. It's hard to compare % when you have no clue what's actually being counted. I would also be curious to know pre-pandemic numbers for hospital beds
 
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utvolpj said:
Agreed. It's hard to compare % when you have no clue what's actually being counted. I would also be curious to know pre-pandemic numbers for hospital beds
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I was surprised to learn the other day that here in GA we've got about 3,000 ICU beds and that pre-pandemic we average around 2,100 in use at any given time - which makes sense when you consider that they've got to be at a certain capacity to make money. 80-90% usage is scary, but not as scary when you consider that they stay operate around 70% anyway.
 
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But it’s my God given right to occupy an ICU bed for any reason I choose, regardless if it was likely preventable you sheep!
 
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GAVol said:
The statistical warfare of the past 18 months has been exhausting. Raw numbers are all I want to see. How many are sick? How many are being hospitalized? How many beds are available? And what is the trend for all 3?
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And it doesn’t always tell the story because of differences in standards and reporting at all levels and across locations. And with hospitalizations, the data that gets published is incomplete of everything needed to understand it in the full context. So it’s very easy for people to come to different conclusions based on the same data. I’m a stats guy and built some reporting last year that merged cdc with state and county-level data about infection, hospitalization, and death rates, hospital capacity, etc and tracked it for a while, but gave up. Unfortunately it really comes down to putting trust in CDC/state/local officials who have visibility to all the data and listening to your own Dr. The raw data is really only useful to identify the BS merchants - mostly the usual suspects in the media and political hacks.
 
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Case in point, my hospital is listed as an 86 bed facility with 9 ICU beds. Spot on for the ICU bed capacity, but we try to stay at 8 in order to have a “code bed” available in case someone crashes elsewhere in the hospital. As far as actual beds, there are maybe 65 beds and that includes mother/baby and L&D.
 
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Protection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is similar to that of BNT162b2 vaccine protection: A three-month nationwide experience from Israel

"Vaccination was highly effective with overall estimated efficacy for documented infection of 92·8% (CI:[92·6, 93·0]); hospitalization 94·2% (CI:[93·6, 94·7]); severe illness 94·4% (CI:[93·6, 95·0]); and death 93·7% (CI:[92·5, 94·7]). Similarly, the overall estimated level of protection from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection for documented infection is 94·8% (CI:[94·4, 95·1]); hospitalization 94·1% (CI:[91·9, 95·7]); and severe illness 96·4% (CI:[92·5, 98·3]). Our results question the need to vaccinate previously-infected individuals."

Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals

"Conclusions Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before."

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More misinformation I guess..
 
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Really interesting information being shared in this video. I'd be interested in any feedback from some medical workers and other experts regarding the content... whether it be confirmative or contradictory.

 
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IBlvNTmWrk said:
Really interesting information being shared in this video. I'd be interested in any feedback from some medical workers and other experts regarding the content... whether it be confirmative or contradictory.

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I agree with some things he says, not others. I agree that any single vaccination program. is extremely unlikely to eliminate Covid as a health issue. The variants will cause us problems for some time. It’s going to be a tough long haul.

I do not agree with his claim that the mRNA vaccines are enhancing the spread of Covid. If this were true, we would be seeing a larger outbreak of Covid in the higher vaccination areas. I also do not agree with his observation that the outbreak this summer is evidence of vaccine induced enhancement. We saw a similar outbreak last summer before any vaccine was available. Unfortunately, Covid does not seem to be nearly as seasonal as the flu.
 
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mad4vols said:
Has anyone else experienced this?

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I had heard of people losing their sense of taste and smell but I didn’t realize that for some people they end up tasting and smelling things completely differently than what they are actually eating.
 
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mad4vols said:
Has anyone else experienced this?

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Yes. I had Covid last December and I still have smells and tastes that I know aren’t right. And it sometimes appears out of nowhere and randomly disappears. A few months ago I was eating a cereal that all of the sudden tasted like burnt garbage. Then a few weeks later the flavor was back to normal. There was a sandwich spread that I loved and recently it tasted absolutely awful, and a month later it was normal again.
 
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davethevol said:
Yes. I had Covid last December and I still have smells and tastes that I know aren’t right. And it sometimes appears out of nowhere and randomly disappears. A few months ago I was eating a cereal that all of the sudden tasted like burnt garbage. Then a few weeks later the flavor was back to normal. There was a sandwich spread that I loved and recently it tasted absolutely awful, and a month later it was normal again.
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That’s what so many people mentioned in the video too. I’m glad you got your taste back.
 
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mad4vols said:
That’s what so many people mentioned in the video too. I’m glad you got your taste back.
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I’m not sure it’s back. That’s the weirdest thing is most things taste fine, but I still get things that I don’t think are quite right. And when I had Covid I only lost my sense of smell, not my taste. My wife lost both. Months after she had it she was smelling thins that weren’t there like ketchup and poop.
 
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