Tell you to go home and take Tylenol and if you get really sick go to the ER? Why not treat it before it gets bad?!?!
The hospitals get paid if they use ventilators. They make more money by treating a severe case. They don’t treat mild cases, these cases become severe, and then they treat.
Well, if that’s their primary motive, I’d have been a prime candidate for a ventilator. I was admitted and almost immediately put on high-flow O2 at 100%, where I stayed for days. Even that often left me at O2 levels of only around 90%, or even in the 80s% (and with any exertion, in the 70s%).
Nonetheless, no ventilator for me.
There may be doctors/hospitals who are just grabbing the bucks. But not the hospital nor any of the 10 doctors or so who attended me during my recent ‘rona “vacation” in our local hospital.
I sensed that every medical staff member was pulling hard for me. Even when they thought that I was going to check out permanently.