And that's what they do and it is appropriate. It's battlefield triage. Most of the people they send home are still waiting on the Covid test results when they leave. If they're sick enough to need to be admitted, they get a rapid test. If they're positive they go the Medsurg Covid Unit or the ICU Covid unit depending on bad they are.
It takes 1-2 days to get test results back. We tell them to stay home and quarantine until the results come back and to return if they develop worsening symptoms. It was my job to call them up and give them their results. I would talk to them at length and if I felt they were worsening, encouraged them to come back. I saw that a couple did and we'e admitted for a few days.
About half the people I talked to were 20-30 year olds and they did fine. The older folks were more likely to be admitted or to return and they did fine ultimately too. Some of the older folks seemed to get hit harder than others.
Very few people are dying in my hospital from this disease at this point. Most all of them go home. they won't tell us how many people are dying but I can see that most of them aren't.
It was a different story back in wave 1 though. My county is like the 5th biggest county in the state but we were leading the state in Covid deaths for the first 6 months or so. I think they figured out what they're doing by now because that is no longer the case. We have a lot of nursing homes and they were all immediately overwhelmed.
I 100 percent do not agree with this approach in a novel virus that people are still trying to figure out
You are causing me to possibly become a long hauler instead of being willing to give me something to counter the attack on my body and stop the virus in it’s track....not to mention the expense of an exacerbated disease and the damage to the body.
This mentality is exactly why I am proactive and have a plan and things to take on Day 1 instead of day 7 when my body is turning on me.
“Most of the people they send home are still waiting on the Covid test results when they leave.”
I had my results in 5 minutes.