Posted on 12/26/2021 8:42:32 AM PST by Hojczyk
RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) - Some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms.
The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks.
Dr. Rick Hildebrant is RRMC’s medical director. He says some people who test positive with a rapid test go to the emergency room looking for a PCR test.
Hildebrant says those who are asymptomatic and receive a positive antigen test should stay home and reach out to their primary care provider.
He says the only time to go to the ER is if you have a positive test and are very sick.
Hildebrant says the flood of asymptomatic people is preventing others in need of immediate care from getting it.
“It’s not so much the beds that are the precious resource, it’s the staff at this time. So we have to have some of our clinical staff providing care to those people and they can’t provide care to the folks in the ER,” Hildebrant explained.
The Vermont Hospital Association says it’s hearing similar stories from other parts of the state.
Hildebrant says those who are asymptomatic and receive a positive antigen test should stay home and reach out to their primary care provider.
He says the only time to go to the ER is if you have a positive test and are very sick.
Hildebrant says the flood of asymptomatic people is preventing others in need of immediate care from getting it.
“It’s not so much the beds that are the precious resource, it’s the staff at this time. So we have to have some of our clinical staff providing care to those people and they can’t provide care to the folks in the ER,” Hildebrant explained.
Hildebrant says health department PCR testing is the best option for asymptomatic people, even though the results take a little longer.
He says by going to the emergency department, you are also potentially exposing yourself to someone with COVID who is very sick.
I worked in an ER in the last big flu epidemic in 2007. I was swamped with people who came in after they had RECOVERED to tell me how sick they had been but now they felt fine. Idiocracy is here.
“ if they are not sick, WHY are they in the emergency room???”
The media has done its job. They are afraid. They have been told to seek early treatment. Mind-numbed robots.
Heck, even pre-Covid it was almost impossible to get in to your primary within a couple days. The medical groups around here have turned urgent care into the compromise between three weeks to see your doctor and going to the emergency room.
All the tests are flawed and result in many false positives.
By the way, which variant are they finding the most of?
Happy for you. But beware that it can pop up and down a bit. Of course, my pre-teen son, least susceptible of all of us, is the one who closest resembled that. Had headache a Sunday, stopped with Advil that day, then had some sniffles Tuesday and Wednesday and that was it. For me it was 2 weeks, at first a minor small symptom per day, then just big fatigue for a good while. Highly annoying but not much more than that.
Exactly.
I love urgent care! (Before they got that name, there were a few enterprising start-ups that just called “walk-in clinic”…which is exactly what it is.)
I’m still waiting for house calls to return.
I’m actually surprised by that, because with the copay costs rising most people I know will do ANYTHING to avoid going to an ER - or even a doctor.
I’ve canceled doctor appointments because the wait was so long I’d recovered (without the prescriptions I sought) before the appointment.
If they are not sick why are they getting “tested” ? That’s why Omicron also spells “moronic”
How much time have you spent observing paramedics, doctors, and nurses in their workspaces? Perhaps withhold your judgment until you’ve walked in their shoes.
You’re right, but unfortunately I don’t think they’re just putting doctors out of business; I believe they are preparation for elimination of some hospitals themselves. My town’s hospital and ER closed years ago (still functioning as some kind of medical facility, but not for walk-ins), but we now have an urgent care clinic and a CVS (which are apparently starting to function as clinics as well).
Otoken used to talk about this stuff when expounding on the virtues of Obamacare, and I assumed he openly accepted that our healthcare system would look like an African one with UN clinics instead of real hospitals.
The majority of patients who abuse ERs are on Medicaid and have no co-pays.
Thank you. Yes I’m happy day 2 is better but aware it may worsen as well. Other than missing Christmas, I think this was a good time for me to get it. My kids don’t go back to school for weeks so if they get it they should recover by the time school starts. And work will be quiet for me next week (I work remotely). Just sad I missed Christmas and also I potentially exposed many older family members (and my church!) on Christmas Eve. I didn’t get symptoms until yesterday morning.
I believe that, I know a couple of gibsmedats that would use the ambulance and ER because it cost less than a taxi (in non-urgent situations).
Our ERs are closing because gibsmedats and illegals used them as the doctor’s office, and rarely paid any bills. As the state cut “charity care” reimbursement, closing the ERs (and sometimes the entire hospital) was inevitable.
Perhaps you withhold judgement of me till you’ve walked in my shoes this year.
Read on and maybe you’ll see a bit more. I can bore everyone with all the details but I try not to so you’re only getting a snippet.
Well Joe is going to send out 500 million
tests..just think of all the positive tests???
Each test performed also counts as a Dem vote in 2022.
“Hildebrant says those who are asymptomatic and receive a positive antigen test should stay home and reach out to their primary care provider. He says the only time to go to the ER is if you have a positive test and are very sick.”
this guy is a lying P.o.S. quack. Really, Dr. Quack? Wait until you’re REALLY sick and then do something about it?
Gee, that’s NOT the advice to anyone with viral shingles or viral influenza, where said advice is to is get therapeutic medication within 48 hours, which is when ALL antivirals are most effective ...
Oh, and Dr. Quack, what about high-risk individuals as defined by the CDC? Any exceptions for US, or should WE too also wait until we’re at death’s doorstep before seeking care at an ER?
Ya just gotta love this “one-size-fits-all” style of doctoring ... heck, why do we even need doctors at all if their advice is to just always stay home no matter what?
Criteria for Identifying High Risk Individuals
The following medical conditions or other factors may place adults and pediatric patients(age 12-17 years and weighing at least 40 kg) at higher risk for progression to severe COVID-19:
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Older age (for example, age >65 years of age)
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Obesity or being overweight (for example, BMI >25 kg/m2, or if age 12-17, have BMI >85th percentile for their age and gender based on CDC growth charts, https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/clinical_charts.htm)
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Pregnancy
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Chronic kidney disease
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Diabetes
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Immunosuppressive disease or immunosuppressive treatment
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Cardiovascular disease (including congenital heart disease) or hypertension
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Chronic lung diseases (for example, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma [moderate-to-severe], interstitial lung disease, cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension)
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Sickle cell disease
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Neurodevelopmental disorders (for example, cerebral palsy) or other conditions that confer medical complexity (for example, genetic or metabolic syndromes and severe congenital anomalies)
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Having a medical-related technological dependence (for example, tracheostomy, gastrostomy, or positive pressure ventilation (not related to COVID-19))
Other medical conditions or factors (for example, race or ethnicity) may also place individual patients at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19 and authorization of REGEN-COV under the EUA is not limited to the medical conditions or factors listed above. For additional information on medical conditions and factors associated with increased risk for progression to severe COVID, see the CDC website:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html.
Healthcare providers should consider the benefit-risk for an individual patient.
All early treatment options HAD to be squelched for the jab to get emergency use authorization.
Because they are complete and total idiots
Just curious. What state do you life in?
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