I was under the impression that those sent home actually didn’t need to be in the hospital; they’d be taking space/care needed for critical patients, and were going to improve anyway. What was the hospital supposed to do besides provide a bed and three hot meals, if they weren’t in respiratory distress?
I’m not following this closely, as I’m actually working many more hours remotely than I ever did in the office (due to the complications of working remotely for a company with no real contingency plan).
This disease can take a sudden turn for the worse, if you’re home you may hope it’ll pass rather than rush back to the hospital. By the time you realize it’s not passing, it may be too late. Self monitoring is a lousy position to be in with this disease.
There was an EMT from NYC on Fox News. She said that most of the calls had symptoms which were not critical, so they would not bring the patient to the hospital. But most of the critical cases they did bring in would not survive.