[Political Junkie Too]

According to this article from NPR (ERs Are Swamped With Seriously Ill Patients, Although Many Don’t Have Covid), it's happening across the United States, too.

-PJ

[Flick Lives]

Although the number of ER visits returned to pre-covid levels this summer, admission rates, from the ER to the hospital’s inpatient floors, are still almost 20% higher. That’s according to the most recent analysis by the Epic Health Research Network, which pulls data from more than 120 million patients across the country.

“It’s an early indicator that what’s happening in the ED is that we’re seeing more acute cases than we were pre-pandemic,” said Caleb Cox, a data scientist at Epic.

Less acute cases, such as people with health issues like rashes or conjunctivitis, still aren’t going to the ER as much as they used to. Instead, they may be opting for an urgent care center or their primary care doctor, Cox explained. Meanwhile, there has been an increase in people coming to the ER with more serious conditions, like strokes and heart attacks.

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Interesting. Thanks for the link. That 20% higher ER to inpatient rate is rather striking.

[saintgermaine]

I much rather would prefer hearing that this epidemic is slowing down and coming to an end, but the way it is being approached and mismanaged contrary to the advise of knowledgably people the results we are seeing don’t come as a surprise. More often than not the thought crossed my mind that this epidemic is intentionally being kept alive and prolonged, and from what it looks like there will be another and another and another booster shot, probably doing more harm than the virus itself. If they really want to put an end to it, just about anything and everything could and should be thrown at it, short of the proverbial kitchen sink as there are plenty of other things available, aside from locking people up inside.

But as always we little people are just pawns in the game dictated by money, greed and politics.