The strangest thing about this virus in this area is the way that it is bankrupting all of our hospitals and urgent care facilities. We had the first known cases and deaths in the USA here in the eastern parts of King and Snohomish Counties, but our hospitals all cleared out in late March and have basically been empty since.
Evergreen Hospitals and their affiliates the first to have deaths are losing $20 Million a month. A quarter of their employees have been layed off. My wife is a retired nurse and department head and I am a retired fire officer. We have lots of contacts and friends who work at hospitals and they are mostly telling us the same thing... they have no patients.
I assume that this doctor and his hospital have a different treatment protocol than what is being used around here because it does not sound like the same experience that has been described to us. Treatment protocols vary greatly from state to state, county to county, and even hospital to hospital, so I guess this is not that suprising. Unfortunately, the doctors who contribute regularly here have either been to busy to post much lately or have become frustrated by the experience of being shouted down by the large number of Covidiots active on the forum.
Good Points,
Thanks