They will do fine. Most that need oxygen do not end up on vents, if they feel worse they can come back. You do what you have to. It is standard practice to admit everyone with meningitis to the hospital. The first year we had west Nile meningitis in our community I was sending 3-4 people a day with clinical meningitis home without even a spinal tap, They were fine. You do what you have to with what is going around In the community. I will say I live in one of the hot spots (not NY) and yes we have a fair number of Covid cases in house but our hospitals are largely empty. Other than woefully inadequate PPE we are doing fine.
I’ll say this. In all my years I never saw ONE ER doc come up to the ICU to see how his patient was doing. That’s not quite true. There was the prostitute with the tattoo of a heart and “Daddy” in it. They all came up to see her.
Probably, but what I was trying to suggest is that the person who wrote this was basing his conclusions on the worst of the worst cases. Also, and maybe it went over everybody's head, wondering if perhaps a lot of his cases are from the homosexual population, which has its own particular issues in regard to immunity.