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Don’t freak out about hospitals filled with COVID patients
American Thinker ^ | 15 Sep, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/15/2021 3:55:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber

At long last, someone has taken a deep dive into those numbers and the reality is very different from what the media present.

One of the biggest stories in the media concerns hospitals filled to overflowing with COVID patients. However, as an article in The Atlantic (of all places!) informs us, these numbers are misleading. Almost half of the people in the hospital with COVID are either mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic. In other words, to anyone running around screaming, “We’re all gonna die!” the answer is “No, we’re not.”

The biggest story is that of a 73-year-old Alabama man who purportedly died from a treatable heart attack after dozens of hospitals across a three-state region turned him away owing to the fact that their ICUs were overflowing with COVID patients. I say purportedly out of caution because there’s almost no confirming evidence other than the family’s say-so. The hospital to which he was originally taken confirmed only that “he needed medical services that were not available” at that hospital. Moreover, he eventually ended up in a hospital in Mississippi, 200 miles from his home.

Those two bits of evidence do indicate that his family is accurately describing what happened. On the other hand, we also know that hospital staffers, especially nurses, are quitting in droves because they refuse to comply with their hospitals’ “get vaccinated or get fired” mandates. That means that the man could have been rejected from several hospitals not because the beds were full but because the staffing rosters were empty.

The reason I’m casting a teeny bit of shade on that tragic story is that The Atlantic, one of the bastions of the Deep State establishment, has a rather interesting story. It turns out that a deep-dive study that looked at the data

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 09/15/2021 3:55:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Reported as ICU even if people had no or minimal COVID symptoms? Sounds like a fear game is being played.


2 posted on 09/15/2021 3:56:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Reported as ICU even if people had no or minimal COVID symptoms? Sounds like a fear game is being played

Sounds to me like the hospitals are getting paid more money to treat COVID patients, than others. Follow the money...

3 posted on 09/15/2021 3:59:54 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: MtnClimber

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hospitalization-numbers-can-be-misleading/620062/

Atlantic covid article...we ARE being spun and lied to...


4 posted on 09/15/2021 4:07:19 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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Whistleblower! Nurse DESTROYS “Delta” Narrative, VACCINATED Patients Fill Hospital!

https://rumble.com/vm936v-whistleblower-nurse-destroys-delta-narrative-vaccinated-patients-fill-hospt.html

ICU Nurse Says Hospital Set to Deny Care to Unvaccinated!

https://www.brighteon.com/5860f783-b072-4957-bc84-e9ca53e29064


5 posted on 09/15/2021 4:07:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Go Gordon

Post 3-
Zeroing-in on the answer.

The hospital administrators get paid on a compensation plan that includes revenue as a target.

Money is at the root of this plandemic.


6 posted on 09/15/2021 4:11:41 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: MtnClimber

Why would asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people be in the hospital with this?


7 posted on 09/15/2021 4:17:31 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: MachIV

Because they have other things wrong.


8 posted on 09/15/2021 4:21:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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Japanese Study — ‘Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to Vaccines’…

September 15, 2021

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/japanese-study-delta-variant-is-poised-to-acquire-complete-resistance-to-vaccines/

A number of experts have raised concerns that COVID-19 jabs and the mass vaccination program could worsen the pandemic by triggering the development of new variants, via a concept known as antigenic, or immune, escape.

Another study found that a worst-case scenario can develop when a large percentage of a population is vaccinated but viral transmission remains high, driving the development of resistant strains.
[Much more at link]


9 posted on 09/15/2021 4:27:38 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Notice that even though the pandemic is now “worse than ever “, they are not even discussing another lockdown, conceding that the last one was unnecessary. And now, masking and vaccinating are also beyond the public’s tipping point. It’s all been revealed as a massive hoax, which is why even saying so out loud is pointedly verboten. The truth is torturing them.


10 posted on 09/15/2021 4:28:38 AM PDT by Spok (Those who can compel you to believe absurdities can compel you to commit atrocities.f)
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Collectively, most of those who work for the media are ignorant, lazy, partisan, and unreliable.
11 posted on 09/15/2021 4:34:53 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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A 20% ‘add on’ to Medicare/Medicaid hospital bills because of the Cares Act sure didnt help. It was worth it for them to admit you for a few days for mild flu symptoms.


12 posted on 09/15/2021 4:36:14 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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When I had my baby a few months ago, I tested positive for COVID.. on top of my pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, etc. I had zero symptoms including no fever, no cough, I felt 100% normal, yet here I was getting the full plague treatment which made my birthing experience less than ideal.

They also tested my baby daily and would only stop if he tested positive. They refused to give me another test, too. Just in it for the $$$ without any concern over how it’ll affect their patients. I counted as a “COVID patient” but I wasn’t.


13 posted on 09/15/2021 4:38:09 AM PDT by same old song
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And now the hospitals and medical industru are puppets of the communist democRATs. Follow the democRAT storyline or get prosecuted for the fraud crimes that the communist democRATs enticed you to commit.


14 posted on 09/15/2021 4:40:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I heard.. and I don’t have a link but heard. That if your not feeling good and go to the hospital to get checked and come back positive for covid then even if you get sent home they count it as being hospitalized. They run the numbers up. I heard that, but also in my area I know people that have went for other reasons and they said there was people lying in beds in the hallways. So not sure what to believe.


15 posted on 09/15/2021 4:40:52 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: MachIV

That was my question as well.


16 posted on 09/15/2021 4:49:27 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: MtnClimber

“Sounds like a fear game is being played.”

Since day one, yes, a fear game and many people played along. As time progresses and more truth come out, more and more realize it’s a game. So they came up with the ultra deadly Delta Variant, something so evil it could rekill the already dead. For most that scare never worked, it’s like the Boy Cried Wolf story.

We’ve been hit with Chinese bio warfare (covid), a trashed economy because of it, a stolen election, a fake vaccine, and a shameful leaving of US citizens stranded in a war zone.

What’s next?


17 posted on 09/15/2021 4:51:12 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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EVERYTHING about “COVID” is a LIE.


18 posted on 09/15/2021 4:56:02 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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On the other hand, we also know that hospital staffers, especially nurses, are quitting in droves because they refuse to comply with their hospitals’ “get vaccinated or get fired” mandates. That means that the man could have been rejected from several hospitals not because the beds were full but because the staffing rosters were empty.

Crash the system. Break the deep state.


19 posted on 09/15/2021 4:58:32 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: glimmerman70

I was hospitalized last year with a heart issue. It resolved fairly quickly, but they wanted to do an echocardiogram before I was discharged. I needed a negative Covid test before that could happen

The results took more than 24 hours to come back from the lab, so I basically spent a day locked in a hospital room for no reason but to wait on the test result. I had my hubby deliver my laptop so I could at least get a little work done.

So what should have taken 24 hrs or less took 3 days. When I got the bill, there was an $18,000 “write off” that my insurance did not have to consider, so it appears my admission was likely coded as Covid-related.


20 posted on 09/15/2021 5:09:16 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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