HEALTH CARE:
Patients with heart attacks, strokes and even appendicitis vanish from hospitals
“...Five weeks into a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, many doctors believe the pandemic has produced a silent sub-epidemic of people who need care at hospitals but dare not come in....
A Gallup online poll taken March 28 to April 2 asked people with different conditions how concerned they would be about exposure to coronavirus if they needed “medical treatment right now” at a hospital or doctor’s office. Eighty-six percent of people with heart disease said they would be either “very concerned” or “moderately concerned.” Among people with high blood pressure, the figure was 83 percent...”
WaPo 12 hours ago
there’s an article on California that says auto accidents are down 50%. That’s a good portion of ER admissions. Other than that, people are scared of hospitals right now.
CCPVirus Complications
Broadway actor Nick Cordero has leg amputated after serious COVID-19 complications
“The doctor said for Nick’s heart and lungs right now they are in the best condition that they could be,” adding, however, that Cordero was still using a ventilator to breathe.
Kloots said doctors were “taking a look into his right leg” to gauge the bold flow after he had issues with blood clotting and an inability to get blood to his toes. Cordero’s doctors had placed him on blood thinners to address the clotting, but the medications had caused internal bleeding in his intestines, Kloots said.
“The doctor went in there, fixed as much as they possibly could to get blood flow down to his toes again,” Kloots said. “We don’t know what the damage will be. We don’t know if he will be able to walk again. We don’t know if he can walk again, what that will look like.”
I can support that statement. Should have visited hospital myself, but did cause Corona is a killer for us well aged citizens.