It didn’t make sense to the physicians I watched talking about it. Other diagnoses do not over rule a broken leg, until Covid-19 came along. It’s not more urgent medically, particularly if the person is asymptomatic. The current practice is designed to over report Covid-19 at all costs.
“It didn’t make sense to the physicians I watched talking about it. Other diagnoses do not over rule a broken leg, until Covid-19 came along. It’s not more urgent medically, particularly if the person is asymptomatic.”
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We haven’t had a pandemic for a century, so it’s likely the doctors haven’t seen anything like it in their lifetime. If Ebola had become pandemic, they would also have seen things they hadn’t before.
If the docs had been around in the 50s, a lot of things would be “deja vu all over again”:
“Many doctors resented the amount of fuss made about polio, and complained that all of this exaggerated fear diverted attention from more serious health threats. The majority of people who had polio never even knew it. Of those who were diagnosed, most recovered with little or no disability. In 1952, the worst epidemic year, three thousand people died from polio, while in 1950, thirty-four thousand died of tuberculosis. In 1957, 62,000 people died from influenza during a notorious epidemic. Although by this time a cure for polio had been discovered, the chances of contracting and dying from influenza were much greater than the chances of contracting and dying from polio even in years prior to this epidemic.”
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